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Cracking the New DB Funding Code

The Pension Regulator’s (TPR’s) new funding code of practice encourages trustees to use scheme-specific analysis when setting their mortality assumptions – an approach Club Vita have been championing since 2008. But why is it so important?

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Explainers | Expert response

Club Vita respond to Cridland's Independent Review of State Pension

Retention of the universal State Pension age reflects the narrowing socio-economic longevity gap and is good news for intergenerational fairness, but society needs to make a choice between working longer or a more generous state pension.

23 March 2017

Opinion & experiences | Personal blogs

Opposites attract: the seduction of the life insurer and the pension fund

Pension funds have unusually long time-horizons. Their promises can be 20, 30, 50, even 80 years or more. They’re in the until-death-us-do-part business.

14 February 2017

General interest | VitaMins

Vitamins Health - Accurate longevity assumptions could wipe £25bn off collective UK DB deficit

With rock-bottom interest rates causing pension deficits to swell, trustees and sponsors of defined benefit pension funds need to avoid unnecessary margins in assumptions.

19 January 2017

Research & technical | Research & technical notes

Longevity basis risk: A framework for assessing longevity basis risk

For pension funds and insurers seeking to use index-based longevity swaps as a means of protecting against longevity trends a long-standing concern has been their effectiveness.

1 December 2014

Research & technical | Research & technical notes

Grieving widows

This paper highlights the elevated mortality experienced upon bereavement.

10 May 2014

General interest | VitaMins

Vitamins Health: The mystery of the vanishing nonagenarians

The 2011 census revealed 15% fewer men in their nineties in England and Wales than had been projected by rolling forward those aged 80+ from the 2001 census. Why does this matter?

19 March 2013

Research & technical | Research & technical notes

Socio-Geographic Variations in Mortality in a Large Retired UK Population

Working with the Oxford Institute of Ageing we identified that the impact on life expectancy of living in an area of deprivation varies depending where in the country you lived.

1 December 2011

Research & technical | Research & technical notes

What longevity predictors should be allowed for when valuing pension plan liabilities?

The original research paper on longevity predictors conducted using the Club Vita data set.

22 March 2011

Explainers | External publications

Living longer and prospering

Our report in collaboration with the Oxford Institute of Ageing on designing an adequate, sustainable and equitable UK state pension system.

1 January 2011