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A gravity model of mortality rates for two related populations 0 1 1 29 0 4 13 127
Age dependent investing: Optimal funding and investment strategies in defined contribution pension plans when members are rational life cycle financial planners 0 0 1 47 0 2 11 196
Barriers to pension scheme participation in small and medium sized enterprises 0 0 0 4 0 2 8 47
Decentralized Investment Management: Evidence from the Pension Fund Industry 0 0 0 52 0 5 7 221
Decentralized investment management: evidence from the pension fund industry 0 0 0 20 0 1 13 158
Did the Housing Boom Increase Household Spending 0 0 0 32 1 3 22 174
Financial Risks and the Pension Protection Fund: Can it Survive Them? 0 1 2 26 0 2 7 88
Financial Risks and the Pension Protection Fund: Can it Survive Them? 0 0 0 54 0 4 7 224
Financial Risks and the Pension Protection Fund:Can It Survive Them? 0 0 0 26 0 4 10 123
Financial risks and the Pension Protection Fund: can it survive them? 0 0 1 1 0 0 5 5
Financial system requirements for successful pension reform 0 0 0 3 1 5 10 46
International Asset Allocation with Time-Varying Investment Opportunities 0 0 0 187 0 5 11 484
International asset allocation with time-varying investment opportunities 0 0 0 2 0 1 8 42
Is immigration the answer to the UK’s pension crisis? 0 0 0 7 3 15 25 66
Keeping Some Skin in the Game: How to Start a Capital Market in Longevity Risk Transfers 0 0 1 18 1 1 5 72
Liability valuation and optimal asset allocation 0 0 2 12 0 3 11 57
Long-term value at risk 0 0 1 16 0 2 5 65
Longevity hedge effectiveness: a decomposition 0 0 0 26 1 3 14 104
Longevity hedging 101: A framework for longevity basis risk analysis and hedge effectiveness 0 0 0 76 0 5 7 329
Longevity risk and capital markets: The 2009-2010 update 0 0 0 46 0 0 6 121
Longevity risk and capital markets: The 2015–16 update 0 0 0 0 0 6 11 47
Longevity risks and capital markets: The 2010-2011 update 0 0 0 28 1 5 7 150
Modelling Socio-Economic Differences in the Mortality of Danish Males Using a New Affluence Index 1 1 1 66 1 2 9 111
Modelling the composition of personal sector wealth in the United Kingdom 0 0 0 1 0 2 12 41
NDC v FDC: Pros, cons and replication 0 0 1 32 1 4 12 465
Network centrality and pension fund performance 0 0 1 43 1 2 5 103
Pensionmetrics 2: stochastic pension plan design during the distribution phase 0 0 0 10 1 4 16 92
Performance Measurement using Multiple Asset Class Portfolio Data 0 0 0 299 1 2 9 1,242
Performance clustering and incentives in the UK pension fund industry 0 0 0 8 2 3 5 47
Returns from active management in international equity markets: evidence from a panel of UK pension funds 0 0 1 3 0 2 6 37
Sharing longevity risk: Why governments should issue longevity bonds 0 0 1 50 1 6 18 203
Spend more today: Using behavioural economics to improve retirement expenditure decisions 0 0 0 27 0 2 11 133
Stochastic lifestyling: optimal dynamic asset allocation for defined contribution pension plans 0 1 1 11 0 1 20 89
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 3 5 41
Target-driven investing: Optimal investment strategies in defined contribution pension plans under loss aversion 0 0 3 59 1 3 17 224
The Hazards of Mutual Fund Underperformance: A Cox Regression Analysis 0 0 0 16 0 0 6 151
The United Kingdom Pension System: Key Issues 0 0 0 33 0 7 17 175
The United Kingdom pension system: key issues 0 0 0 14 1 2 11 83
The cost of counterparty risk and collateralization in longevity swaps 0 0 0 30 1 5 15 147
The impact of wealth on consumption and retirement behaviour in the UK 0 0 0 13 3 6 17 91
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 5 18 168
UK pension fund management after Myners: the hunt for correlation begins 0 0 0 6 1 4 12 63
What Should Be Done About The Underfunding of Defined Benefit Pension Schemes? 0 1 1 50 2 4 12 215
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 2 4 12 39
Why does mutual fund performance not persist? The impact and interaction of fund flows and manager changes 0 0 1 69 3 9 23 446
Total Working Papers 1 5 20 1,577 30 160 511 7,352


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A Bayesian Approach to Modeling and Projecting Cohort Effects 0 0 0 3 0 1 6 11
A Computationally Efficient Algorithm for Estimating the Distribution of Future Annuity Values Under Interest-Rate and Longevity Risks 0 0 0 2 0 1 1 9
A General Procedure for Constructing Mortality Models 0 0 0 2 1 2 7 25
A Gravity Model of Mortality Rates for Two Related Populations 0 0 0 0 0 3 7 20
A Quantitative Comparison of Stochastic Mortality Models Using Data From England and Wales and the United States 0 0 2 51 1 4 16 133
A Two‐Factor Model for Stochastic Mortality with Parameter Uncertainty: Theory and Calibration 0 3 13 210 0 5 53 578
After VaR: The Theory, Estimation, and Insurance Applications of Quantile‐Based Risk Measures 1 2 3 81 1 3 7 247
Age-dependent investing: Optimal funding and investment strategies in defined contribution pension plans when members are rational life cycle financial planners 0 0 1 111 1 2 11 348
Annual estimates of personal wealth holdings in the United Kingdom since 1948 0 0 1 37 0 5 17 172
Annuity Markets: Problems and Solutions 0 0 1 178 0 0 16 1,105
Asset Allocation Dynamics and Pension Fund Performance 2 3 10 745 3 5 29 2,714
Backtesting Stochastic Mortality Models 1 1 2 4 3 6 13 26
Bayesian Stochastic Mortality Modelling for Two Populations 0 0 1 7 0 2 10 49
CBDX: a workhorse mortality model from the Cairns–Blake–Dowd family 0 0 0 2 0 2 5 18
Complete systems methods of estimating models with rational and adaptive expectations: A case study 0 0 0 8 0 0 3 35
Correction: Longevity risk and capital markets: the 2022–2023 update 0 0 0 0 0 1 6 7
Correction: Quantifying loss aversion: Evidence from a UK population survey 0 0 0 0 2 4 4 4
Debt-equity swaps as bond conversions: implications for pricing 0 0 0 48 0 7 8 153
Decentralized Investment Management: Evidence from the Pension Fund Industry 0 0 1 22 0 8 17 136
Default Funds in U.K. Defined-Contribution Plans (corrected) 0 0 1 1 0 3 9 12
Defined contribution pensions: dealing with the reluctant investor 0 0 0 12 0 1 5 72
Designing a Defined-Contribution Plan: What to Learn from Aircraft Designers 0 0 0 0 0 1 5 6
Does It Matter What Type of Pension Scheme You Have? 0 0 0 107 0 5 15 288
Efficiency, Risk Aversion and Portfolio Insurance: An Analysis of Financial Asset Portfolios Held by Investors in the United Kingdom 0 0 0 257 0 2 9 852
Evaluating the goodness of fit of stochastic mortality models 0 0 0 22 2 5 21 126
Facing up to uncertain life expectancy: The longevity fan charts 0 0 0 8 1 2 8 55
Financial Intermediation and Financial Innovation in a Characteristics Framework 0 0 0 0 0 1 8 453
Forward Mortality Rates in Discrete Time I: Calibration and Securities Pricing 0 0 1 2 0 1 5 10
Forward Mortality Rates in Discrete Time II: Longevity Risk and Hedging Strategies 0 0 0 1 1 1 4 11
Fund Flows, Manager Changes, and Performance Persistence* 1 1 3 6 2 8 13 21
Good Practice Principles in Modelling Defined Contribution Pension Plans 0 0 0 6 0 4 7 17
Hedging Annuity Risks with the Age-Period-Cohort Two-Population Gravity Model 0 0 0 1 1 2 8 18
Hedging Longevity Risk in Life Settlements Using Biomedical Research‐Backed Obligations 0 0 0 1 1 3 12 27
Identifiability in age/period mortality models 0 0 0 4 1 2 5 18
Identifiability in age/period/cohort mortality models 0 0 0 4 0 3 8 19
Identifiability, cointegration and the gravity model 0 0 0 10 1 3 11 50
Improved inference in the evaluation of mutual fund performance using panel bootstrap methods 0 0 0 18 0 2 4 115
Informed Intermediation of Longevity Exposures 0 0 0 4 0 5 10 37
International Asset Allocation with Time-Varying Investment Opportunities 0 0 0 95 2 4 8 368
Keeping Some Skin in the Game: How to Start a Capital Market in Longevity Risk Transfers 0 0 0 1 0 2 11 19
Le nouveau marché du risque de longévité 0 0 0 3 1 1 4 31
Living with Mortality: Longevity Bonds and Other Mortality-Linked Securities 0 0 3 8 0 1 16 55
Longevity Bonds: Financial Engineering, Valuation, and Hedging 0 0 0 98 0 0 11 238
Longevity Hedging 101 0 0 1 2 0 2 6 14
Longevity Risk and Capital Markets 0 0 0 0 0 2 4 13
Longevity Risk and Capital Markets 0 0 0 15 1 2 6 66
Longevity Risk and Capital Markets: The 2007-2008 Update 0 0 0 7 0 1 8 62
Longevity Risk and Capital Markets: The 2010–2011 Update 0 0 0 20 1 7 10 120
Longevity Risk and Capital Markets: The 2011–2012 Update 0 0 0 16 0 4 5 63
Longevity Risk and Capital Markets: The 2012–2013 Update 0 0 1 2 2 3 5 11
Longevity Risk and Capital Markets: The 2014–15 Update 0 0 2 4 0 2 10 38
Longevity Risk and Capital Markets: The 2016–2017 Update 0 0 0 0 0 1 4 6
Longevity Risk and Capital Markets: The 2017–2018 Update 0 0 0 2 0 1 2 9
Longevity hedge effectiveness: a decomposition 0 0 0 2 0 1 8 47
Longevity risk and capital markets: The 2008-2009 update 0 0 0 30 1 2 7 80
Longevity risk and capital markets: The 2015–16 update 0 0 1 9 0 9 28 84
Longevity risk and capital markets: The 2019-20 update 0 0 0 17 2 9 38 102
Longevity risk and capital markets: the 2021–22 update 0 0 0 1 0 1 7 11
Longevity risk and capital markets: the 2021–22 update 0 0 0 2 0 2 3 12
Longevity risk and capital markets: the 2022–2023 update 0 0 0 3 0 2 12 20
Longevity risk and the Grim Reaper's toxic tail: The survivor fan charts 0 0 1 36 0 2 10 187
Longevity: a new asset class 0 0 1 8 1 3 19 56
Long‐Term Value at Risk 0 0 0 1 0 2 17 22
MANAGING FINANCIALLY DISTRESSED PENSION PLANS IN THE INTEREST OF BENEFICIARIES 0 0 0 0 0 4 11 31
MODELLING MORTALITY FOR PENSION SCHEMES 0 0 0 5 1 3 5 26
MODELLING SOCIO-ECONOMIC DIFFERENCES IN MORTALITY USING A NEW AFFLUENCE INDEX 0 0 0 14 0 0 1 35
Measuring Value Added in the Pensions Industry 0 0 0 46 0 1 1 108
Mental Time Travel and Retirement Savings 0 0 0 0 0 0 10 22
Mental time travel and the valuation of financial investments 0 0 0 2 2 5 10 17
Mental time travel and the valuation of financial investments: analysing five biases that cause pricing anomalies 0 1 1 2 0 4 12 15
Modeling Multicountry Longevity Risk With Mortality Dependence: A Lévy Subordinated Hierarchical Archimedean Copulas Approach 0 0 0 0 2 4 14 37
Modelling and management of mortality risk: a review 0 0 0 1 0 3 13 16
Modelling longevity bonds: Analysing the Swiss Re Kortis bond 0 0 0 17 2 4 14 140
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 6 73
Modelling the composition of personal sector wealth in the UK 0 0 1 57 0 3 16 212
Monetarism and the US economy: A re-evaluation of Stein's model 1960-1973 0 0 0 17 1 3 6 102
Mortality Dependence and Longevity Bond Pricing: A Dynamic Factor Copula Mortality Model With the GAS Structure 0 0 0 7 0 2 9 40
Mortality Leads and Lags 0 0 0 1 0 1 3 20
Mortality density forecasts: An analysis of six stochastic mortality models 0 3 5 119 1 5 27 355
Mortality-dependent financial risk measures 0 0 0 78 0 1 1 177
Mutual Fund Performance: Evidence from the UK 0 1 4 45 1 4 12 138
Network centrality and delegated investment performance 0 0 0 41 14 16 25 192
New Evidence on Mutual Fund Performance: A Comparison of Alternative Bootstrap Methods 0 0 0 10 0 2 10 50
Nudges and Networks: How to Use Behavioural Economics to Improve the Life Cycle Savings-Consumption Balance 0 0 0 4 0 4 10 22
On The Sustainability of the UK State Pension System in the Light of Population Ageing and Declining Fertility 0 0 0 142 2 11 21 465
On the Failure (Success) of the Markets for Longevity Risk Transfer 0 0 1 2 0 4 15 59
On the Structure and Classification of Mortality Models 0 1 4 9 1 5 12 42
Options on normal underlyings with an application to the pricing of survivor swaptions 0 0 0 2 1 1 5 27
PYRRHIC VICTORY? THE UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCE OF THE PENSIONS ACT 2004 0 0 0 14 0 2 7 123
Pension Plan Decisions 0 0 0 3 1 2 10 24
Pension Risk Management in the Enterprise Risk Management Framework 0 0 1 1 2 4 12 80
Pension schemes as options on pension fund assets: implications for pension fund management 0 0 1 144 0 2 12 331
Pensionmetrics 2: stochastic pension plan design during the distribution phase 0 0 0 184 0 3 11 587
Pensionmetrics: stochastic pension plan design and value-at-risk during the accumulation phase 0 1 1 188 0 5 12 454
Performance clustering and incentives in the UK pension fund industry 0 0 0 3 0 1 11 22
Phantoms never die: living with unreliable population data 0 0 0 1 1 3 7 23
Portfolio Behaviour and Asset Pricing in a Characteristics Framework 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 103
Portfolio Choice Models of Pension Funds and Life Assurance Companies: Similarities and Differences 0 0 1 61 0 1 8 154
Pricing Buy‐Ins and Buy‐Outs 0 0 0 0 0 1 12 34
Pricing Death: Frameworks for the Valuation and Securitization of Mortality Risk* 1 3 3 15 2 6 18 78
Projecting Mortality Rates to Extreme Old Age with the CBDX Model 0 0 0 1 0 2 6 10
Quantifying loss aversion: Evidence from a UK population survey 0 0 2 3 0 2 20 31
Reply to “Survivor Bonds: A Comment on Blake and Burrows” 0 0 0 15 0 0 11 90
Returns from active management in international equity markets: Evidence from a panel of UK pension funds 0 0 0 1 1 3 7 13
Robust Mean–Variance Hedging of Longevity Risk 0 1 1 1 1 4 10 29
Securitizing and tranching longevity exposures 0 0 0 18 0 1 7 109
Sharing Longevity Risk: Why Governments Should Issue Longevity Bonds 0 0 0 3 2 3 7 27
Smart defaults: Determining the number of default funds in a pension scheme 0 0 0 1 0 1 7 18
Spend More Today Safely: Using Behavioral Economics to Improve Retirement Expenditure Decisions With SPEEDOMETER Plans 0 0 0 4 0 2 13 67
Stochastic lifestyling: Optimal dynamic asset allocation for defined contribution pension plans 0 1 4 161 0 4 22 439
Survivor Derivatives: A Consistent Pricing Framework 0 0 0 8 0 1 4 57
Survivor Swaps 0 1 1 144 0 5 8 436
Target-driven investing: Optimal investment strategies in defined contribution pension plans under loss aversion 1 1 1 55 3 7 13 265
Target2: The Silent Bailout System That Keeps the Euro Afloat 0 0 0 1 3 8 31 37
Testing models generating time varying asset return expectations and risks: The case of UK private sector pension funds 0 0 0 4 1 2 6 31
The Birth of the Life Market 0 0 1 19 0 0 9 112
The Cost of Counterparty Risk and Collateralization in Longevity Swaps 0 0 0 3 1 2 12 34
The Cross‐Section of Asia‐Pacific Mortality Dynamics: Implications for Longevity Risk Sharing 0 0 0 1 0 4 10 33
The Demand for Cider in the United Kingdom 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 176
The Estimation of Rational Expectations Models: A Survey 0 0 1 2 0 3 7 11
The Great Game Will Never End: Why the Global Financial Crisis Is Bound to Be Repeated 0 0 0 4 0 4 14 30
The Impact of Occupation and Gender on Pensions from Defined Contribution Plans 0 0 0 55 0 1 4 171
The Myth of Methuselah and the Uncertainty of Death: The Mortality Fan Charts 0 0 0 3 0 1 7 56
The New Life Market 0 0 2 22 0 3 10 86
The Performance of UK Exchange Rate Forecasters 0 0 0 55 1 2 15 311
The demand for alcohol in the United Kingdom 0 0 0 276 0 1 15 753
The fisher hypothesis: Evidence from three high inflation economies 0 0 1 94 1 8 14 214
The hazards of mutual fund underperformance: A Cox regression analysis 0 0 1 133 0 1 7 493
The impact of wealth on consumption and retirement behaviour in the UK 0 0 1 77 0 3 6 332
The market for lemmings: The herding behavior of pension funds 0 0 2 34 2 7 16 149
The stochastic analysis of competitive unemployment insurance premiums 0 0 0 14 2 2 6 75
The valuation of no-negative equity guarantees and equity release mortgages 0 0 0 8 0 2 9 56
UK pension fund management after Myners: The hunt for correlation begins 0 0 0 0 0 4 14 18
What is a Promise from the Government Worth? Quantifying Political Risk in State and Personal Pension Schemes in the United Kingdom 0 0 0 33 0 1 8 133
“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 5 15
Total Journal Articles 7 24 91 4,854 85 397 1,423 19,082
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Pension Schemes and Pension Funds in the United Kingdom 0 0 0 0 3 8 22 522
Total Books 0 0 0 0 3 8 22 522


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A Non-linear Model of Portfolio Behaviour With Time-varying Expectations and Risks 0 0 0 0 0 1 4 6
Contracting Out of the State Pension System: The British Experience of Carrots and Sticks 0 1 1 17 1 3 7 93
It is all Back to Front: Critical Issues in the Design of Defined Contribution Pension Plans 0 0 0 11 0 0 3 43
Optimal Investment Strategies in Defined Contribution Pension Plans 0 0 0 0 1 4 6 9
The United Kingdom: Examining the Switch from Low Public Pensions to High-Cost Private Pensions 0 0 1 22 0 3 11 70
Total Chapters 0 1 2 50 2 11 31 221


Statistics updated 2026-06-04