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Explainers | VitaMins
People have a natural tendency to underestimate life expectancy and actuaries traditionally base future projections on extrapolations of observed historical experience; this can result in institutional blind spots to extreme future longevity events. But what would happen if one of these overlooked scenarios occurred?
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All the latest information, news and research from the Club Vita team.
General interest | Top charts
In this edition of Top Charts, Erik Pickett examines how the numbers of COVID-19 deaths compare to other leading causes of death in the UK, US and Canada.
30 October 2020
General interest | VitaMins
With most of the world still in the grips of the COVID-19 pandemic, much attention is now focused on the development of a safe and effective vaccine. Never in our memories have clinical trials received so many column inches and the subject of representativeness of sample data is top of many minds.
6 October 2020
Opinion & experiences | Behavioral economics blogs
In his latest blog, Erik Pickett looks how his former life as a street performer has helped him in his professional life, and asks, does the same experience still help in the age of Zoom?
15 September 2020
In this edition of Top Charts, Erik Pickett explains why there's more than meets the eye when it comes to life expectancy.
28 August 2020
General interest | Pandemic updates
In this article Erik Pickett and Dan Reddy explore how COVID-19 is being experienced differently across the different states of America.
21 August 2020
In his latest blog on cognitive biases affecting the actuarial world, Erik Pickett looks at the survivorship bias: the tendency to assume subjects that made it through a survival process are typical of the group that began the process.
7 July 2020
It is widely accepted that the mind and body are closely interlinked. In this article we look at the link between mental and physical health patterns and how these may influence future longevity trends.
18 June 2020
Business updates | Press releases
Club Vita, the international leader in longevity data analytics, today announced that Jennifer Haid has joined Club Vita’s international team as Chief Executive Officer.
16 June 2020
Club Vita, the international leader in longevity analytics, today announced an integration partnership with WinTech, a leader in retirement valuation and administration software.
3 June 2020
Research & technical | Research & technical notes
In this paper we show there is significant diversity of longevity experience for pension plans within both the public and private sectors in both the UK and Canada.
22 May 2020
In this edition of Top Charts, Dan Reddy discusses the effect COVID-19 is having on 2020 cumulative deaths.
15 May 2020
Club Vita, the international leader in longevity analytics, today announced an agreement with Segal, a leading employee benefits consulting firm.
6 May 2020
From working-at-home practices to an awareness of how to wash our hands, from the availability and funding of health care to whether life goes on in the absence of professional sports
30 April 2020
Opinion & experiences | Pandemic updates
The number of Google searches for the word unprecedented has recently spiked to unprecedented levels.
6 April 2020
Erik Pickett discusses exponential growth in his latest blog.
26 March 2020
Dietary sources of Vitamin D are limited, with around 90% of our usual intake coming from sunlight.
3 March 2020
In this edition of Top Charts US, Erik Pickett asks whether cancer mortality has been improving in the US in recent years?
24 February 2020
Opinion & experiences | Personal blogs
Douglas Anderson discusses running, resolutions and the preventive benefits of healthy habits.
5 February 2020
Explainers | External publications
The United States is a diverse nation made up of many people with distinctly different characteristics.
1 January 2020
In this edition of Top Charts International, Richard Brown, Erik Pickett and Daniel Reddy discuss whether more people die in the winter than in the summer.
17 December 2019
Erik Pickett discusses the availability heuristic in his latest blog.
12 December 2019
In this blog, Erik Pickett discusses a cognitive bias known as the outcome bias.
23 October 2019
Springfield, Virginia and Springfield, Missouri share the same name, but they don’t share much else.
18 October 2019
In this edition of Top Charts US, Erik Pickett presents a chart exploring the mortality gap between rich and poor.
15 October 2019
Every year significantly more people die during the winter months than at other times of the year, and recently we have seen huge variability in ‘excess winter deaths’, potentially impacted by the severity of the flu. In this issue of VitaMins Health, we explore the subject of flu.
3 October 2019
Opinion & experiences | VitaMins
Club Vita Founder, Douglas Anderson, explains how maps are a way of exploring the connections between past sociology and longevity outcomes.
Explainers | What is Club Vita?
In the first video of our series Douglas Anderson, Founder and Chief Visionary Officer of Club Vita is interviewed by Mike Kreps, Groom Law Group, to find out 'What is Club Vita?'.
In this video Mike Kreps, Groom Law Group, talks to Club Vita US’s CEO, Dan Reddy, to find out if longevity really is a risk in the USA?
25 September 2019
Mike Kreps, Groom Law Group, and Erik Pickett, Actuary and Chief Content Officer, Club Vita, discuss whether we have reached the upper limit of lifespans in the USA.
18 September 2019
In this video Mike Kreps, Groom Law Group, asks Ian Edelist, Former CEO, Club Vita Canada about what Club Vita can learn about the US from their experiences in the UK and Canada.
11 September 2019
