Keyword: longevity risk

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What longevity risk?

This summer, the Canadian Institute of Actuaries released new pension mortality tables. The tables revealed longer life expectancies than were previously provided by commonly used tables. Some of the industry reaction has focused on the longevity risk faced by DB pension plans.

Longevity: How to Handle the Toxic Tail

Coverage of the 2013 Risk Management Conference.

Longer lives pose risks for all plan sponsors

New figures confirm that life expectancy in Canada has increased—a trend that, in the eyes of experts, poses a threat for the sponsors of both DB and DC plans and calls for new measures such as transferring risks to insurance companies and providing education for plan members.

The High Cost of Living Longer

Preview of the 2013 Risk Management Conference.

  • By: Scot Blythe
  • August 4, 2013 September 13, 2019
  • 14:41
Your pension contributions might be too little (or too much!)

Today, most plan sponsors’ contributions to their DB plans are being driven by the results of their pension plans’ solvency valuations.

Longevity risk, smart beta, and oil prices….

Are you coming to the 2013 Risk Management Conference? If not, you'll be missing out on our roster of expert speakers from around the world.

Longevity risk for employers

Despite tastes for beaver tails and poutine, Canadians are living longer than ever before. And if you’re an employer with a DB pension plan, it probably means that you’ll be paying pensions to your retirees for longer than you expect.

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Pension sustainability requires new thinking

The thinking for plan sponsors over the last decade has been to reduce risk, reduce liabilities, get out of DB and move to a DC pension model. But a pure DC plan isn’t the answer to the overarching pension problem—and neither is DB, argued Yvan Legris, global CEO, consulting, with Aon Hewitt, at a recent Toronto Board of Trade event.

Younger gen concerned about outliving money

Retirement concerns are keeping a younger group of Americans up at night, according to new research from the Pew Research Center in Washington, D.C.

  • By: Staff
  • October 26, 2012 September 13, 2019
  • 11:20