This is LCP's fifth report for finance directors, trustees and the other senior decision makers responsible for managing the costs and risks associated with pension plans. Our objective is to capture key developments and opportunities in the market for buy-ins, buy-outs, synthetic buy-ins and

In this paper Swiss Re Europe look at how a capital market for longevity risk could help address the challenges of funding longer lives.

With the workforce set to get older, employers must take the opportunity to review what can be provided under their group risk schemes and where savings can be made.

This chapter looks at inequalities and poverty in retirement. Inequality is a relative concept, in which the position of one individual or household in a distribution – normally an income distribution – is compared with that of other individuals or households. There is no single definition of

This chapter provides an overview of the main legislative changes over the last century, which reflect the thinking of successive governments on provision for old age. It provides a context for understanding the mix of arrangements in place that are described in subsequent chapters.

Over the course of the 20th century, life expectancy in the UK increased. At the same time fertility rates broadly declined (with the exception of the periods following the First and Second World Wars, and the 1960s). As the 1960s ‘baby boomers’ reach retirement in the next few decades they will be

This report combines the latest data on the state of private pensions in the UK. The report examines the main factors that have played a role in shaping recent trends in private sector pension provision and highlights how employers are responding to the challenges of providing workplace pensions.

With the London 2012 Olympics fast approaching, Aon Hewitt has looked at the similarities and differences between the economic situation in 1948 - the last time the Games were in London - and 2012.

This paper provides a stylized model of pension liability buyouts that examines the role of asymmetries in information on longevity risk and capital requirements.

This is the sixth of our series of reports that focus on issues of direct relevance to practitioners, in this case buyers and sellers of US life settlements, buyers and sellers of US older-age longevity risks, financial advisors, regulators and policymakers