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A gravity model of mortality rates for two related populations 0 0 1 29 0 0 11 127
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 2 4 13 200
Barriers to pension scheme participation in small and medium sized enterprises 0 0 0 4 0 0 7 47
Decentralized Investment Management: Evidence from the Pension Fund Industry 0 0 0 52 1 1 8 222
Decentralized investment management: evidence from the pension fund industry 0 0 0 20 0 2 15 160
Did the Housing Boom Increase Household Spending 0 0 0 32 0 1 21 175
Financial Risks and the Pension Protection Fund: Can it Survive Them? 0 0 0 54 0 0 7 224
Financial Risks and the Pension Protection Fund: Can it Survive Them? 0 1 3 27 1 4 10 92
Financial Risks and the Pension Protection Fund:Can It Survive Them? 0 0 0 26 0 0 10 123
Financial risks and the Pension Protection Fund: can it survive them? 0 0 1 1 1 3 8 8
Financial system requirements for successful pension reform 0 0 0 3 0 0 10 46
International Asset Allocation with Time-Varying Investment Opportunities 0 0 0 187 0 1 12 485
International asset allocation with time-varying investment opportunities 0 0 0 2 1 2 10 44
Is immigration the answer to the UK’s pension crisis? 0 0 0 7 0 2 26 68
Keeping Some Skin in the Game: How to Start a Capital Market in Longevity Risk Transfers 0 0 1 18 1 2 7 74
Liability valuation and optimal asset allocation 0 0 2 12 0 1 12 58
Long-term value at risk 0 0 1 16 0 0 5 65
Longevity hedge effectiveness: a decomposition 0 0 0 26 0 0 12 104
Longevity hedging 101: A framework for longevity basis risk analysis and hedge effectiveness 0 0 0 76 1 2 9 331
Longevity risk and capital markets: The 2009-2010 update 0 0 0 46 2 3 9 124
Longevity risk and capital markets: The 2015–16 update 0 0 0 0 0 0 10 47
Longevity risks and capital markets: The 2010-2011 update 0 0 0 28 1 2 8 152
Modelling Socio-Economic Differences in the Mortality of Danish Males Using a New Affluence Index 0 0 1 66 0 0 9 111
Modelling the composition of personal sector wealth in the United Kingdom 0 0 0 1 0 0 12 41
NDC v FDC: Pros, cons and replication 0 0 1 32 0 1 13 466
Network centrality and pension fund performance 0 0 1 43 0 2 7 105
Pensionmetrics 2: stochastic pension plan design during the distribution phase 0 0 0 10 0 1 16 93
Performance Measurement using Multiple Asset Class Portfolio Data 0 0 0 299 0 0 9 1,242
Performance clustering and incentives in the UK pension fund industry 0 0 0 8 2 2 7 49
Returns from active management in international equity markets: evidence from a panel of UK pension funds 0 0 1 3 0 0 5 37
Sharing longevity risk: Why governments should issue longevity bonds 0 0 1 50 1 2 19 205
Spend more today: Using behavioural economics to improve retirement expenditure decisions 0 0 0 27 0 4 15 137
Stochastic lifestyling: optimal dynamic asset allocation for defined contribution pension plans 0 0 1 11 0 0 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 1 1 6 42
Target-driven investing: Optimal investment strategies in defined contribution pension plans under loss aversion 0 0 2 59 0 3 19 227
The Hazards of Mutual Fund Underperformance: A Cox Regression Analysis 0 0 0 16 0 1 6 152
The United Kingdom Pension System: Key Issues 0 0 0 33 0 0 17 175
The United Kingdom pension system: key issues 0 0 0 14 0 1 10 84
The cost of counterparty risk and collateralization in longevity swaps 0 0 0 30 1 2 14 149
The impact of wealth on consumption and retirement behaviour in the UK 0 0 0 13 1 1 16 92
Turning pension plans into pension planes: What investment strategy designers of defined contribution pension plans can learn from commercial aircraft designers 0 1 1 23 2 3 17 171
UK pension fund management after Myners: the hunt for correlation begins 0 0 0 6 0 0 11 63
What Should Be Done About The Underfunding of Defined Benefit Pension Schemes? 0 0 1 50 0 0 11 215
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 0 1 13 40
Why does mutual fund performance not persist? The impact and interaction of fund flows and manager changes 0 0 1 69 0 3 25 449
Total Working Papers 0 2 21 1,579 19 58 537 7,410


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A Bayesian Approach to Modeling and Projecting Cohort Effects 0 0 0 3 0 0 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 0 1 9
A General Procedure for Constructing Mortality Models 0 0 0 2 0 1 8 26
A Gravity Model of Mortality Rates for Two Related Populations 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 20
A Quantitative Comparison of Stochastic Mortality Models Using Data From England and Wales and the United States 0 1 3 52 0 5 19 138
A Two‐Factor Model for Stochastic Mortality with Parameter Uncertainty: Theory and Calibration 1 2 11 212 2 7 49 585
ADM's APPLE: The Accelerated Deaths Model with an Application to the Covid-19 Pandemic 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1
After VaR: The Theory, Estimation, and Insurance Applications of Quantile‐Based Risk Measures 0 3 6 84 0 3 10 250
Age-dependent investing: Optimal funding and investment strategies in defined contribution pension plans when members are rational life cycle financial planners 0 0 0 111 10 13 21 361
Annual estimates of personal wealth holdings in the United Kingdom since 1948 0 0 1 37 4 7 23 179
Annuity Markets: Problems and Solutions 0 0 1 178 0 0 14 1,105
Asset Allocation Dynamics and Pension Fund Performance 0 2 9 747 0 3 21 2,717
Backtesting Stochastic Mortality Models 0 0 2 4 0 0 10 26
Bayesian Stochastic Mortality Modelling for Two Populations 0 0 0 7 1 2 10 51
CBDX: a workhorse mortality model from the Cairns–Blake–Dowd family 0 0 0 2 2 2 7 20
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 0 4 7
Correction: Quantifying loss aversion: Evidence from a UK population survey 0 0 0 0 1 2 6 6
Debt-equity swaps as bond conversions: implications for pricing 0 0 0 48 0 0 8 153
Decentralized Investment Management: Evidence from the Pension Fund Industry 0 1 2 23 1 4 21 140
Default Funds in U.K. Defined-Contribution Plans (corrected) 0 0 1 1 0 1 10 13
Defined contribution pensions: dealing with the reluctant investor 0 0 0 12 1 1 6 73
Designing a Defined-Contribution Plan: What to Learn from Aircraft Designers 0 0 0 0 1 1 5 7
Does It Matter What Type of Pension Scheme You Have? 0 0 0 107 0 0 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 0 7 852
Evaluating the goodness of fit of stochastic mortality models 0 0 0 22 0 0 21 126
Facing up to uncertain life expectancy: The longevity fan charts 1 1 1 9 1 1 8 56
Financial Intermediation and Financial Innovation in a Characteristics Framework 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 453
Forward Mortality Rates in Discrete Time I: Calibration and Securities Pricing 0 0 0 2 1 2 6 12
Forward Mortality Rates in Discrete Time II: Longevity Risk and Hedging Strategies 0 1 1 2 2 3 7 14
Fund Flows, Manager Changes, and Performance Persistence* 0 0 2 6 2 3 15 24
Good Practice Principles in Modelling Defined Contribution Pension Plans 0 0 0 6 2 3 10 20
Hedging Annuity Risks with the Age-Period-Cohort Two-Population Gravity Model 0 0 0 1 0 0 7 18
Hedging Longevity Risk in Life Settlements Using Biomedical Research‐Backed Obligations 0 0 0 1 0 1 13 28
Identifiability in age/period mortality models 0 0 0 4 1 2 7 20
Identifiability in age/period/cohort mortality models 0 0 0 4 1 3 9 22
Identifiability, cointegration and the gravity model 0 0 0 10 0 0 10 50
Improved inference in the evaluation of mutual fund performance using panel bootstrap methods 0 0 0 18 0 0 4 115
Informed Intermediation of Longevity Exposures 0 0 0 4 0 1 11 38
International Asset Allocation with Time-Varying Investment Opportunities 0 0 0 95 0 0 8 368
Keeping Some Skin in the Game: How to Start a Capital Market in Longevity Risk Transfers 0 0 0 1 1 1 12 20
Le nouveau marché du risque de longévité 0 0 0 3 0 0 4 31
Living with Mortality: Longevity Bonds and Other Mortality-Linked Securities 0 0 3 8 1 1 17 56
Longevity Bonds: Financial Engineering, Valuation, and Hedging 0 0 0 98 0 0 9 238
Longevity Hedging 101 0 0 1 2 0 0 6 14
Longevity Risk and Capital Markets 0 0 0 15 0 0 5 66
Longevity Risk and Capital Markets 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 13
Longevity Risk and Capital Markets: The 2007-2008 Update 0 0 0 7 1 2 8 64
Longevity Risk and Capital Markets: The 2010–2011 Update 0 0 0 20 0 1 11 121
Longevity Risk and Capital Markets: The 2011–2012 Update 0 0 0 16 0 0 5 63
Longevity Risk and Capital Markets: The 2012–2013 Update 0 0 0 2 0 0 4 11
Longevity Risk and Capital Markets: The 2014–15 Update 0 0 0 4 0 0 7 38
Longevity Risk and Capital Markets: The 2016–2017 Update 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 6
Longevity Risk and Capital Markets: The 2017–2018 Update 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 9
Longevity hedge effectiveness: a decomposition 0 0 0 2 0 0 8 47
Longevity risk and capital markets: The 2008-2009 update 0 0 0 30 0 0 7 80
Longevity risk and capital markets: The 2015–16 update 0 0 1 9 2 5 30 89
Longevity risk and capital markets: The 2019-20 update 0 2 2 19 1 7 42 109
Longevity risk and capital markets: the 2021–22 update 0 0 0 2 0 1 4 13
Longevity risk and capital markets: the 2021–22 update 1 1 1 2 1 1 7 12
Longevity risk and capital markets: the 2022–2023 update 0 0 0 3 0 2 13 22
Longevity risk and the Grim Reaper's toxic tail: The survivor fan charts 0 0 0 36 0 0 9 187
Longevity: a new asset class 0 0 1 8 0 0 19 56
Long‐Term Value at Risk 0 0 0 1 0 0 11 22
MANAGING FINANCIALLY DISTRESSED PENSION PLANS IN THE INTEREST OF BENEFICIARIES 0 0 0 0 1 2 13 33
MODELLING MORTALITY FOR PENSION SCHEMES 0 0 0 5 0 0 5 26
MODELLING SOCIO-ECONOMIC DIFFERENCES IN MORTALITY USING A NEW AFFLUENCE INDEX 0 0 0 14 1 2 3 37
Measuring Value Added in the Pensions Industry 0 0 0 46 0 1 2 109
Mental Time Travel and Retirement Savings 0 0 0 0 0 1 9 23
Mental time travel and the valuation of financial investments 0 0 0 2 0 1 11 18
Mental time travel and the valuation of financial investments: analysing five biases that cause pricing anomalies 0 0 1 2 0 0 11 15
Modeling Multicountry Longevity Risk With Mortality Dependence: A Lévy Subordinated Hierarchical Archimedean Copulas Approach 0 0 0 0 0 0 12 37
Modelling and management of mortality risk: a review 0 0 0 1 0 0 13 16
Modelling longevity bonds: Analysing the Swiss Re Kortis bond 0 0 0 17 0 1 15 141
Modelling the Ultimate Absurdity: A Comment on "A Quantitative Study of the Strategic Arms Race in the Missile Age." 0 0 0 8 0 2 8 75
Modelling the composition of personal sector wealth in the UK 0 1 2 58 1 2 16 214
Monetarism and the US economy: A re-evaluation of Stein's model 1960-1973 0 0 0 17 0 1 6 103
Mortality Dependence and Longevity Bond Pricing: A Dynamic Factor Copula Mortality Model With the GAS Structure 0 0 0 7 0 0 7 40
Mortality Leads and Lags 0 0 0 1 0 1 4 21
Mortality density forecasts: An analysis of six stochastic mortality models 0 1 6 120 0 3 29 358
Mortality-dependent financial risk measures 0 0 0 78 0 0 1 177
Mutual Fund Performance: Evidence from the UK 0 2 5 47 0 2 12 140
Network centrality and delegated investment performance 0 0 0 41 2 6 30 198
New Evidence on Mutual Fund Performance: A Comparison of Alternative Bootstrap Methods 0 0 0 10 0 0 7 50
Nudges and Networks: How to Use Behavioural Economics to Improve the Life Cycle Savings-Consumption Balance 0 0 0 4 0 1 10 23
On The Sustainability of the UK State Pension System in the Light of Population Ageing and Declining Fertility 0 0 0 142 1 3 23 468
On the Failure (Success) of the Markets for Longevity Risk Transfer 0 0 0 2 0 0 11 59
On the Structure and Classification of Mortality Models 0 0 3 9 0 2 11 44
Options on normal underlyings with an application to the pricing of survivor swaptions 0 0 0 2 0 1 5 28
PYRRHIC VICTORY? THE UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCE OF THE PENSIONS ACT 2004 0 0 0 14 0 1 8 124
Pension Plan Decisions 0 0 0 3 0 0 9 24
Pension Risk Management in the Enterprise Risk Management Framework 0 0 1 1 0 0 10 80
Pension schemes as options on pension fund assets: implications for pension fund management 0 0 0 144 1 2 13 333
Pensionmetrics 2: stochastic pension plan design during the distribution phase 0 0 0 184 0 5 15 592
Pensionmetrics: stochastic pension plan design and value-at-risk during the accumulation phase 0 0 1 188 0 4 16 458
Performance clustering and incentives in the UK pension fund industry 0 0 0 3 0 0 10 22
Phantoms never die: living with unreliable population data 0 0 0 1 0 1 6 24
Portfolio Behaviour and Asset Pricing in a Characteristics Framework 0 0 0 0 1 1 4 104
Portfolio Choice Models of Pension Funds and Life Assurance Companies: Similarities and Differences 0 0 1 61 0 1 9 155
Pricing Buy‐Ins and Buy‐Outs 0 0 0 0 0 1 9 35
Pricing Death: Frameworks for the Valuation and Securitization of Mortality Risk* 0 0 3 15 1 1 18 79
Projecting Mortality Rates to Extreme Old Age with the CBDX Model 0 0 0 1 0 0 6 10
Quantifying loss aversion: Evidence from a UK population survey 0 0 2 3 1 2 20 33
Reply to “Survivor Bonds: A Comment on Blake and Burrows” 0 0 0 15 0 0 10 90
Returns from active management in international equity markets: Evidence from a panel of UK pension funds 0 0 0 1 1 1 8 14
Robust Mean–Variance Hedging of Longevity Risk 0 0 1 1 0 0 9 29
Securitizing and tranching longevity exposures 0 0 0 18 0 0 7 109
Sharing Longevity Risk: Why Governments Should Issue Longevity Bonds 0 0 0 3 0 1 8 28
Smart defaults: Determining the number of default funds in a pension scheme 0 0 0 1 0 0 5 18
Spend More Today Safely: Using Behavioral Economics to Improve Retirement Expenditure Decisions With SPEEDOMETER Plans 0 0 0 4 2 3 15 70
Stochastic lifestyling: Optimal dynamic asset allocation for defined contribution pension plans 1 3 7 164 1 7 27 446
Survivor Derivatives: A Consistent Pricing Framework 0 0 0 8 0 1 5 58
Survivor Swaps 0 0 1 144 1 1 9 437
Target-driven investing: Optimal investment strategies in defined contribution pension plans under loss aversion 0 0 1 55 0 0 13 265
Target2: The Silent Bailout System That Keeps the Euro Afloat 0 0 0 1 0 3 34 40
Testing models generating time varying asset return expectations and risks: The case of UK private sector pension funds 0 0 0 4 0 2 8 33
The Birth of the Life Market 0 0 0 19 0 0 8 112
The Cost of Counterparty Risk and Collateralization in Longevity Swaps 0 0 0 3 0 0 12 34
The Cross‐Section of Asia‐Pacific Mortality Dynamics: Implications for Longevity Risk Sharing 0 0 0 1 0 0 10 33
The Demand for Cider in the United Kingdom 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 176
The Estimation of Rational Expectations Models: A Survey 0 0 0 2 0 0 6 11
The Great Game Will Never End: Why the Global Financial Crisis Is Bound to Be Repeated 0 0 0 4 1 1 11 31
The Impact of Occupation and Gender on Pensions from Defined Contribution Plans 0 0 0 55 0 1 5 172
The Myth of Methuselah and the Uncertainty of Death: The Mortality Fan Charts 0 0 0 3 0 1 8 57
The New Life Market 0 0 1 22 0 0 9 86
The Performance of UK Exchange Rate Forecasters 0 0 0 55 0 0 14 311
The demand for alcohol in the United Kingdom 0 0 0 276 0 0 14 753
The fisher hypothesis: Evidence from three high inflation economies 1 1 2 95 1 2 15 216
The hazards of mutual fund underperformance: A Cox regression analysis 0 0 1 133 1 1 6 494
The impact of wealth on consumption and retirement behaviour in the UK 0 0 0 77 1 4 8 336
The market for lemmings: The herding behavior of pension funds 0 0 2 34 2 4 19 153
The stochastic analysis of competitive unemployment insurance premiums 0 0 0 14 0 2 7 77
The valuation of no-negative equity guarantees and equity release mortgages 0 0 0 8 0 1 9 57
UK pension fund management after Myners: The hunt for correlation begins 0 0 0 0 1 1 15 19
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 0 7 133
“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 0 5 15
Total Journal Articles 5 22 90 4,876 62 180 1,462 19,263
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Pension Schemes and Pension Funds in the United Kingdom 0 0 0 0 0 1 20 523
Total Books 0 0 0 0 0 1 20 523


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A Non-linear Model of Portfolio Behaviour With Time-varying Expectations and Risks 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 6
Contracting Out of the State Pension System: The British Experience of Carrots and Sticks 1 1 2 18 1 1 8 94
It is all Back to Front: Critical Issues in the Design of Defined Contribution Pension Plans 0 0 0 11 0 0 2 43
Optimal Investment Strategies in Defined Contribution Pension Plans 0 0 0 0 19 19 25 28
The United Kingdom: Examining the Switch from Low Public Pensions to High-Cost Private Pensions 0 0 1 22 0 0 10 70
Total Chapters 1 1 3 51 20 20 49 241


Statistics updated 2026-09-10