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A gravity model of mortality rates for two related populations 0 0 0 28 0 0 1 113
Age dependent investing: Optimal funding and investment strategies in defined contribution pension plans when members are rational life cycle financial planners 0 0 1 46 2 3 5 184
Barriers to pension scheme participation in small and medium sized enterprises 0 0 0 4 1 1 1 39
Decentralized Investment Management: Evidence from the Pension Fund Industry 0 0 1 52 0 0 3 214
Decentralized investment management: evidence from the pension fund industry 0 0 0 20 0 4 13 143
Did the Housing Boom Increase Household Spending 0 0 0 31 0 1 6 150
Financial Risks and the Pension Protection Fund: Can it Survive Them? 0 0 0 24 0 0 0 81
Financial Risks and the Pension Protection Fund: Can it Survive Them? 0 0 0 54 0 0 1 216
Financial Risks and the Pension Protection Fund:Can It Survive Them? 0 0 0 26 1 1 1 113
Financial system requirements for successful pension reform 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 36
International Asset Allocation with Time-Varying Investment Opportunities 0 0 0 187 0 0 0 472
International asset allocation with time-varying investment opportunities 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 34
Is immigration the answer to the UK’s pension crisis? 0 0 0 7 1 2 3 41
Keeping Some Skin in the Game: How to Start a Capital Market in Longevity Risk Transfers 0 0 0 17 0 0 0 65
Liability valuation and optimal asset allocation 0 0 0 10 0 0 0 46
Long-term value at risk 0 0 2 15 0 0 3 59
Longevity hedge effectiveness: a decomposition 0 0 0 26 0 0 1 89
Longevity hedging 101: A framework for longevity basis risk analysis and hedge effectiveness 0 0 0 76 0 0 3 322
Longevity risk and capital markets: The 2009-2010 update 0 0 0 46 0 0 0 115
Longevity risk and capital markets: The 2015–16 update 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 36
Longevity risks and capital markets: The 2010-2011 update 0 0 0 28 1 1 4 143
Modelling Socio-Economic Differences in the Mortality of Danish Males Using a New Affluence Index 0 1 2 64 0 2 5 101
Modelling the composition of personal sector wealth in the United Kingdom 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 29
NDC v FDC: Pros, cons and replication 0 0 0 31 1 2 18 452
Network centrality and pension fund performance 0 0 0 42 1 2 2 98
Pensionmetrics 2: stochastic pension plan design during the distribution phase 0 0 0 10 0 0 0 75
Performance Measurement using Multiple Asset Class Portfolio Data 0 0 0 298 3 3 7 1,232
Performance clustering and incentives in the UK pension fund industry 0 0 0 8 0 0 0 42
Returns from active management in international equity markets: evidence from a panel of UK pension funds 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 31
Sharing longevity risk: Why governments should issue longevity bonds 0 0 2 49 0 0 2 184
Spend more today: Using behavioural economics to improve retirement expenditure decisions 0 0 0 27 0 0 0 122
Stochastic lifestyling: optimal dynamic asset allocation for defined contribution pension plans 0 0 0 10 0 0 0 68
Take (smoothed) risks when you are young, not when you are old: how to get the best from your stakeholder pension plan 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 36
Target-driven investing: Optimal investment strategies in defined contribution pension plans under loss aversion 0 0 0 56 0 0 4 206
The Hazards of Mutual Fund Underperformance: A Cox Regression Analysis 0 0 0 16 0 0 0 145
The United Kingdom Pension System: Key Issues 0 0 0 33 0 1 2 156
The United Kingdom pension system: key issues 0 0 0 14 1 2 2 70
The cost of counterparty risk and collateralization in longevity swaps 0 0 2 30 1 1 3 132
The impact of wealth on consumption and retirement behaviour in the UK 0 0 1 13 0 0 4 74
Turning pension plans into pension planes: What investment strategy designers of defined contribution pension plans can learn from commercial aircraft designers 0 0 0 22 0 0 1 150
UK pension fund management after Myners: the hunt for correlation begins 0 0 0 6 0 0 1 51
What Should Be Done About The Underfunding of Defined Benefit Pension Schemes? 0 0 0 49 1 1 2 202
What is a promise from the government worth?:: measuring and assessing the implications of political risk in state and personal pension schemes in the United Kingdom 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 27
Why does mutual fund performance not persist? The impact and interaction of fund flows and manager changes 0 0 3 68 1 2 12 422
Total Working Papers 0 1 14 1,554 15 29 111 6,816


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A Bayesian Approach to Modeling and Projecting Cohort Effects 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 5
A Computationally Efficient Algorithm for Estimating the Distribution of Future Annuity Values Under Interest-Rate and Longevity Risks 0 0 1 2 1 1 2 8
A General Procedure for Constructing Mortality Models 0 0 0 1 1 4 6 16
A Gravity Model of Mortality Rates for Two Related Populations 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 13
A Quantitative Comparison of Stochastic Mortality Models Using Data From England and Wales and the United States 0 1 6 49 1 3 10 117
A Two‐Factor Model for Stochastic Mortality with Parameter Uncertainty: Theory and Calibration 2 3 12 195 3 11 28 521
After VaR: The Theory, Estimation, and Insurance Applications of Quantile‐Based Risk Measures 0 1 5 78 0 1 9 239
Age-dependent investing: Optimal funding and investment strategies in defined contribution pension plans when members are rational life cycle financial planners 1 1 4 110 3 3 14 335
Annual estimates of personal wealth holdings in the United Kingdom since 1948 0 0 0 36 0 0 0 155
Annuity Markets: Problems and Solutions 1 3 5 177 1 3 19 1,088
Asset Allocation Dynamics and Pension Fund Performance 0 1 3 734 0 2 16 2,682
Backtesting Stochastic Mortality Models 0 0 1 2 0 0 2 12
Bayesian Stochastic Mortality Modelling for Two Populations 0 0 1 6 0 0 1 39
CBDX: a workhorse mortality model from the Cairns–Blake–Dowd family 0 0 1 2 0 0 2 13
Complete systems methods of estimating models with rational and adaptive expectations: A case study 0 0 0 7 0 0 1 31
Debt-equity swaps as bond conversions: implications for pricing 0 0 0 47 0 0 0 144
Decentralized Investment Management: Evidence from the Pension Fund Industry 0 0 0 21 0 0 3 118
Default Funds in U.K. Defined-Contribution Plans (corrected) 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1
Defined contribution pensions: dealing with the reluctant investor 0 0 0 12 0 1 1 67
Designing a Defined-Contribution Plan: What to Learn from Aircraft Designers 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Does It Matter What Type of Pension Scheme You Have? 0 0 0 107 0 0 3 272
Efficiency, Risk Aversion and Portfolio Insurance: An Analysis of Financial Asset Portfolios Held by Investors in the United Kingdom 0 0 4 257 0 0 7 842
Evaluating the goodness of fit of stochastic mortality models 0 0 0 22 0 0 2 104
Facing up to uncertain life expectancy: The longevity fan charts 0 0 0 8 0 0 0 47
Financial Intermediation and Financial Innovation in a Characteristics Framework 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 445
Forward Mortality Rates in Discrete Time I: Calibration and Securities Pricing 0 0 1 1 1 1 3 5
Forward Mortality Rates in Discrete Time II: Longevity Risk and Hedging Strategies 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 6
Fund Flows, Manager Changes, and Performance Persistence* 0 0 3 3 1 1 5 7
Good Practice Principles in Modelling Defined Contribution Pension Plans 0 0 0 6 0 0 1 10
Hedging Annuity Risks with the Age-Period-Cohort Two-Population Gravity Model 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 10
Identifiability in age/period mortality models 0 0 0 3 0 0 1 12
Identifiability in age/period/cohort mortality models 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 11
Identifiability, cointegration and the gravity model 0 0 0 10 0 0 1 39
Improved inference in the evaluation of mutual fund performance using panel bootstrap methods 0 0 0 17 0 1 5 108
Informed Intermediation of Longevity Exposures 0 0 1 4 0 0 1 27
International Asset Allocation with Time-Varying Investment Opportunities 0 0 0 95 0 0 2 360
Keeping Some Skin in the Game: How to Start a Capital Market in Longevity Risk Transfers 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 8
Le nouveau marché du risque de longévité 0 0 0 3 2 2 2 27
Living with Mortality: Longevity Bonds and Other Mortality-Linked Securities 0 0 2 5 0 0 3 39
Longevity Bonds: Financial Engineering, Valuation, and Hedging 0 0 1 97 1 3 7 226
Longevity Hedging 101 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 8
Longevity Risk and Capital Markets 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 9
Longevity Risk and Capital Markets 0 0 0 15 0 2 3 60
Longevity Risk and Capital Markets: The 2007-2008 Update 0 0 0 7 0 1 1 54
Longevity Risk and Capital Markets: The 2010–2011 Update 0 0 0 20 1 1 1 110
Longevity Risk and Capital Markets: The 2011–2012 Update 0 0 0 16 0 0 0 58
Longevity Risk and Capital Markets: The 2012–2013 Update 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 6
Longevity Risk and Capital Markets: The 2016–2017 Update 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2
Longevity Risk and Capital Markets: The 2017–2018 Update 0 0 0 2 2 2 4 7
Longevity hedge effectiveness: a decomposition 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 38
Longevity risk and capital markets: The 2008-2009 update 0 0 0 30 0 0 0 72
Longevity risk and capital markets: The 2015–16 update 0 0 0 6 0 2 3 53
Longevity risk and capital markets: The 2019-20 update 0 0 1 17 1 2 10 62
Longevity risk and capital markets: the 2021–22 update 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 9
Longevity risk and capital markets: the 2021–22 update 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 4
Longevity risk and capital markets: the 2022–2023 update 0 0 3 3 0 1 7 7
Longevity risk and the Grim Reaper's toxic tail: The survivor fan charts 0 1 1 35 0 1 1 176
Longevity: a new asset class 0 1 2 6 0 2 8 36
Long‐Term Value at Risk 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 3
MANAGING FINANCIALLY DISTRESSED PENSION PLANS IN THE INTEREST OF BENEFICIARIES 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 20
MODELLING MORTALITY FOR PENSION SCHEMES 0 0 0 5 0 0 1 21
MODELLING SOCIO-ECONOMIC DIFFERENCES IN MORTALITY USING A NEW AFFLUENCE INDEX 0 0 1 14 1 1 2 32
Measuring Value Added in the Pensions Industry 0 0 0 46 1 1 1 107
Mental Time Travel and Retirement Savings 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 12
Mental time travel and the valuation of financial investments 0 0 1 2 0 0 3 6
Modelling and management of mortality risk: a review 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 2
Modelling longevity bonds: Analysing the Swiss Re Kortis bond 0 0 0 17 0 1 2 126
Modelling the Ultimate Absurdity: A Comment on "A Quantitative Study of the Strategic Arms Race in the Missile Age." 0 0 0 8 0 1 1 67
Modelling the composition of personal sector wealth in the UK 0 0 0 56 0 0 0 194
Monetarism and the US economy: A re-evaluation of Stein's model 1960-1973 0 0 0 17 0 0 0 96
Mortality density forecasts: An analysis of six stochastic mortality models 0 0 4 113 3 7 21 327
Mortality-dependent financial risk measures 0 0 0 78 0 0 1 176
Mutual Fund Performance: Evidence from the UK 0 0 4 39 1 2 11 123
Network centrality and delegated investment performance 0 1 7 41 0 3 15 167
New Evidence on Mutual Fund Performance: A Comparison of Alternative Bootstrap Methods 0 0 0 10 0 0 0 40
Nudges and Networks: How to Use Behavioural Economics to Improve the Life Cycle Savings-Consumption Balance 0 0 1 4 1 1 4 12
On The Sustainability of the UK State Pension System in the Light of Population Ageing and Declining Fertility 0 0 0 142 0 0 12 442
On the Structure and Classification of Mortality Models 1 1 1 5 2 3 7 28
Options on normal underlyings with an application to the pricing of survivor swaptions 0 0 0 2 1 1 1 22
PYRRHIC VICTORY? THE UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCE OF THE PENSIONS ACT 2004 0 0 0 14 1 2 2 116
Pension Plan Decisions 0 0 1 3 0 1 2 14
Pension schemes as options on pension fund assets: implications for pension fund management 0 0 1 143 0 0 2 318
Pensionmetrics 2: stochastic pension plan design during the distribution phase 0 0 3 184 0 1 4 576
Pensionmetrics: stochastic pension plan design and value-at-risk during the accumulation phase 0 0 0 186 0 1 3 440
Performance clustering and incentives in the UK pension fund industry 0 0 0 3 0 0 1 11
Phantoms never die: living with unreliable population data 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 16
Portfolio Behaviour and Asset Pricing in a Characteristics Framework 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 99
Portfolio Choice Models of Pension Funds and Life Assurance Companies: Similarities and Differences 0 0 0 59 1 2 2 145
Pricing Death: Frameworks for the Valuation and Securitization of Mortality Risk* 0 0 0 12 0 0 2 60
Projecting Mortality Rates to Extreme Old Age with the CBDX Model 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 3
Quantifying loss aversion: Evidence from a UK population survey 0 1 1 1 0 1 2 10
Reply to “Survivor Bonds: A Comment on Blake and Burrows” 0 0 1 15 0 0 1 79
Returns from active management in international equity markets: Evidence from a panel of UK pension funds 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 6
Securitizing and tranching longevity exposures 0 0 1 17 0 0 1 99
Sharing Longevity Risk: Why Governments Should Issue Longevity Bonds 0 0 0 3 0 1 1 20
Smart defaults: Determining the number of default funds in a pension scheme 0 0 0 1 1 2 5 11
Special Edition: Longevity 10 – The Tenth International Longevity Risk and Capital Markets Solutions Conference 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 21
Special Edition: Longevity 10 – The Tenth International Longevity Risk and Capital Markets Solutions Conference 0 0 0 2 1 2 3 33
Special Edition: Longevity 10 – The Tenth International Longevity Risk and Capital Markets Solutions Conference 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 15
Special Edition: Longevity 10 – The Tenth International Longevity Risk and Capital Markets Solutions Conference 0 0 0 2 3 3 3 28
Special Edition: Longevity 10 – The Tenth International Longevity Risk and Capital Markets Solutions Conference 0 0 0 7 0 0 0 31
Special Edition: Longevity 10 – The Tenth International Longevity Risk and Capital Markets Solutions Conference 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 23
Special Edition: Longevity 10 – The Tenth International Longevity Risk and Capital Markets Solutions Conference 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 23
Special Edition: Longevity 10 – The Tenth International Longevity Risk and Capital Markets Solutions Conference 0 0 1 1 0 1 3 22
Special Edition: Longevity 10 – The Tenth International Longevity Risk and Capital Markets Solutions Conference 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 17
Special Edition: Longevity 10 – The Tenth International Longevity Risk and Capital Markets Solutions Conference 0 0 0 1 0 2 3 37
Special Edition: Longevity 10 – The Tenth International Longevity Risk and Capital Markets Solutions Conference 0 0 0 1 1 2 2 43
Special Edition: Longevity 10 – The Tenth International Longevity Risk and Capital Markets Solutions Conference 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 68
Special Edition: Longevity 10 – The Tenth International Longevity Risk and Capital Markets Solutions Conference 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 19
Spend More Today Safely: Using Behavioral Economics to Improve Retirement Expenditure Decisions With SPEEDOMETER Plans 0 0 0 4 1 1 1 54
Stochastic lifestyling: Optimal dynamic asset allocation for defined contribution pension plans 0 0 3 156 1 1 8 415
Survivor Derivatives: A Consistent Pricing Framework 0 0 0 8 0 0 1 53
Survivor Swaps 0 1 4 143 0 1 4 427
Target-driven investing: Optimal investment strategies in defined contribution pension plans under loss aversion 0 0 3 53 0 1 10 249
Target2: The Silent Bailout System That Keeps the Euro Afloat 0 0 1 1 0 1 4 6
Testing models generating time varying asset return expectations and risks: The case of UK private sector pension funds 0 0 0 4 0 1 1 25
The Birth of the Life Market 0 0 0 17 0 0 1 101
The Cost of Counterparty Risk and Collateralization in Longevity Swaps 0 0 1 3 0 1 2 21
The Demand for Cider in the United Kingdom 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 167
The Estimation of Rational Expectations Models: A Survey 0 1 1 1 1 4 4 4
The Great Game Will Never End: Why the Global Financial Crisis Is Bound to Be Repeated 0 0 1 4 0 0 2 13
The Impact of Occupation and Gender on Pensions from Defined Contribution Plans 0 0 2 55 0 1 3 167
The Myth of Methuselah and the Uncertainty of Death: The Mortality Fan Charts 0 0 0 3 1 1 3 49
The New Life Market 0 0 1 20 1 3 5 76
The Performance of UK Exchange Rate Forecasters 0 0 0 55 0 0 0 296
The demand for alcohol in the United Kingdom 0 0 2 274 1 1 8 736
The fisher hypothesis: Evidence from three high inflation economies 0 0 1 93 0 0 1 200
The hazards of mutual fund underperformance: A Cox regression analysis 0 0 4 132 0 0 6 485
The impact of wealth on consumption and retirement behaviour in the UK 0 0 0 76 0 1 1 325
The market for lemmings: The herding behavior of pension funds 0 0 2 32 0 0 7 133
The stochastic analysis of competitive unemployment insurance premiums 0 0 0 14 2 2 2 69
The valuation of no-negative equity guarantees and equity release mortgages 0 0 0 8 0 0 1 47
UK pension fund management after Myners: The hunt for correlation begins 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4
What is a Promise from the Government Worth? Quantifying Political Risk in State and Personal Pension Schemes in the United Kingdom 0 1 1 33 1 2 2 125
“Pensions and Capital Structure: Why Hold Equities in the Pension Fund?”, John Ralfe, Cliff Speed, and Jon Palin, July 2004 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 10
Total Journal Articles 5 18 113 4,742 48 125 418 17,663
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Pension Schemes and Pension Funds in the United Kingdom 0 0 0 0 2 5 18 494
Total Books 0 0 0 0 2 5 18 494


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A Non-linear Model of Portfolio Behaviour With Time-varying Expectations and Risks 0 0 0 0 1 2 2 2
Contracting Out of the State Pension System: The British Experience of Carrots and Sticks 0 1 1 16 0 1 1 86
It is all Back to Front: Critical Issues in the Design of Defined Contribution Pension Plans 0 0 1 11 2 3 8 38
Optimal Investment Strategies in Defined Contribution Pension Plans 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 3
The United Kingdom: Examining the Switch from Low Public Pensions to High-Cost Private Pensions 0 0 0 21 0 0 0 59
Total Chapters 0 1 2 48 4 7 12 188


Statistics updated 2025-03-03