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A gravity model of mortality rates for two related populations 0 0 0 28 1 2 4 116
Age dependent investing: Optimal funding and investment strategies in defined contribution pension plans when members are rational life cycle financial planners 0 0 0 46 1 2 7 187
Barriers to pension scheme participation in small and medium sized enterprises 0 0 0 4 0 1 2 40
Decentralized Investment Management: Evidence from the Pension Fund Industry 0 0 1 52 0 0 1 214
Decentralized investment management: evidence from the pension fund industry 0 0 0 20 0 0 12 145
Did the Housing Boom Increase Household Spending 0 0 1 32 0 2 10 154
Financial Risks and the Pension Protection Fund: Can it Survive Them? 0 0 0 24 0 1 1 82
Financial Risks and the Pension Protection Fund: Can it Survive Them? 0 0 0 54 0 0 2 217
Financial Risks and the Pension Protection Fund:Can It Survive Them? 0 0 0 26 0 0 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 1 473
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 0 1 3 42
Keeping Some Skin in the Game: How to Start a Capital Market in Longevity Risk Transfers 0 0 0 17 0 0 2 67
Liability valuation and optimal asset allocation 0 0 0 10 0 0 0 46
Long-term value at risk 0 0 1 15 0 0 3 60
Longevity hedge effectiveness: a decomposition 0 0 0 26 1 2 3 92
Longevity hedging 101: A framework for longevity basis risk analysis and hedge effectiveness 0 0 0 76 0 0 0 322
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 1 1 37
Longevity risks and capital markets: The 2010-2011 update 0 0 0 28 0 1 2 144
Modelling Socio-Economic Differences in the Mortality of Danish Males Using a New Affluence Index 0 0 3 65 0 0 5 102
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 0 0 11 453
Network centrality and pension fund performance 0 0 0 42 0 0 2 98
Pensionmetrics 2: stochastic pension plan design during the distribution phase 0 0 0 10 0 1 2 77
Performance Measurement using Multiple Asset Class Portfolio Data 0 0 1 299 0 0 8 1,233
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 1 1 1 32
Sharing longevity risk: Why governments should issue longevity bonds 0 0 0 49 0 1 2 186
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 1 69
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 1 1 57 0 1 2 208
The Hazards of Mutual Fund Underperformance: A Cox Regression Analysis 0 0 0 16 0 1 1 146
The United Kingdom Pension System: Key Issues 0 0 0 33 0 0 4 158
The United Kingdom pension system: key issues 0 0 0 14 0 2 6 74
The cost of counterparty risk and collateralization in longevity swaps 0 0 0 30 1 3 4 135
The impact of wealth on consumption and retirement behaviour in the UK 0 0 1 13 2 2 5 76
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 2 4 5 154
UK pension fund management after Myners: the hunt for correlation begins 0 0 0 6 1 1 2 52
What Should Be Done About The Underfunding of Defined Benefit Pension Schemes? 0 0 0 49 0 1 3 204
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 0 68 0 1 8 424
Total Working Papers 0 1 9 1,558 10 32 127 6,873


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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 0 0 2 8
A General Procedure for Constructing Mortality Models 0 0 1 2 0 0 7 18
A Gravity Model of Mortality Rates for Two Related Populations 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 14
A Quantitative Comparison of Stochastic Mortality Models Using Data From England and Wales and the United States 0 0 3 49 1 2 9 119
A Two‐Factor Model for Stochastic Mortality with Parameter Uncertainty: Theory and Calibration 1 4 12 201 2 11 30 536
After VaR: The Theory, Estimation, and Insurance Applications of Quantile‐Based Risk Measures 0 0 4 78 0 0 8 240
Age-dependent investing: Optimal funding and investment strategies in defined contribution pension plans when members are rational life cycle financial planners 1 1 2 111 1 3 12 340
Annual estimates of personal wealth holdings in the United Kingdom since 1948 0 0 0 36 0 1 1 156
Annuity Markets: Problems and Solutions 0 0 4 177 2 2 9 1,091
Asset Allocation Dynamics and Pension Fund Performance 2 3 7 738 4 11 23 2,696
Backtesting Stochastic Mortality Models 0 0 0 2 1 3 4 16
Bayesian Stochastic Mortality Modelling for Two Populations 0 1 1 7 0 2 2 41
CBDX: a workhorse mortality model from the Cairns–Blake–Dowd family 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 13
Complete systems methods of estimating models with rational and adaptive expectations: A case study 0 0 1 8 0 0 2 32
Correction: Longevity risk and capital markets: the 2022–2023 update 0 0 0 0 0 2 3 3
Debt-equity swaps as bond conversions: implications for pricing 0 0 1 48 0 0 1 145
Decentralized Investment Management: Evidence from the Pension Fund Industry 0 0 0 21 0 0 2 119
Default Funds in U.K. Defined-Contribution Plans (corrected) 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 3
Defined contribution pensions: dealing with the reluctant investor 0 0 0 12 0 0 1 67
Designing a Defined-Contribution Plan: What to Learn from Aircraft Designers 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 2
Does It Matter What Type of Pension Scheme You Have? 0 0 0 107 0 0 2 273
Efficiency, Risk Aversion and Portfolio Insurance: An Analysis of Financial Asset Portfolios Held by Investors in the United Kingdom 0 0 4 257 1 2 8 845
Evaluating the goodness of fit of stochastic mortality models 0 0 0 22 0 0 1 105
Facing up to uncertain life expectancy: The longevity fan charts 0 0 0 8 0 1 1 48
Financial Intermediation and Financial Innovation in a Characteristics Framework 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 446
Forward Mortality Rates in Discrete Time I: Calibration and Securities Pricing 0 1 1 2 0 1 2 6
Forward Mortality Rates in Discrete Time II: Longevity Risk and Hedging Strategies 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 7
Fund Flows, Manager Changes, and Performance Persistence* 0 1 1 4 0 1 4 9
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 1 1 11
Hedging Longevity Risk in Life Settlements Using Biomedical Research‐Backed Obligations 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 15
Identifiability in age/period mortality models 0 0 1 4 0 0 2 13
Identifiability in age/period/cohort mortality models 0 0 0 4 0 2 2 13
Identifiability, cointegration and the gravity model 0 0 0 10 1 1 1 40
Improved inference in the evaluation of mutual fund performance using panel bootstrap methods 0 0 1 18 0 0 5 111
Informed Intermediation of Longevity Exposures 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 27
International Asset Allocation with Time-Varying Investment Opportunities 0 0 0 95 0 0 0 360
Keeping Some Skin in the Game: How to Start a Capital Market in Longevity Risk Transfers 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 8
Le nouveau marché du risque de longévité 0 0 0 3 0 0 2 27
Living with Mortality: Longevity Bonds and Other Mortality-Linked Securities 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 39
Longevity Bonds: Financial Engineering, Valuation, and Hedging 0 0 1 98 1 2 8 229
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 1 4 61
Longevity Risk and Capital Markets: The 2007-2008 Update 0 0 0 7 0 2 3 56
Longevity Risk and Capital Markets: The 2010–2011 Update 0 0 0 20 0 0 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 1 1 1 2 1 1 2 7
Longevity Risk and Capital Markets: The 2014–15 Update 0 2 2 4 1 3 6 31
Longevity Risk and Capital Markets: The 2016–2017 Update 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2
Longevity Risk and Capital Markets: The 2017–2018 Update 0 0 0 2 0 0 3 7
Longevity hedge effectiveness: a decomposition 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 39
Longevity risk and capital markets: The 2008-2009 update 0 0 0 30 0 0 1 73
Longevity risk and capital markets: The 2015–16 update 0 0 2 8 2 3 8 59
Longevity risk and capital markets: The 2019-20 update 0 0 0 17 0 3 9 67
Longevity risk and capital markets: the 2021–22 update 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 9
Longevity risk and capital markets: the 2021–22 update 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 5
Longevity risk and capital markets: the 2022–2023 update 0 0 1 3 1 1 4 9
Longevity risk and the Grim Reaper's toxic tail: The survivor fan charts 1 1 2 36 1 1 3 178
Longevity: a new asset class 0 0 2 7 0 0 4 37
Long‐Term Value at Risk 0 0 1 1 2 6 9 11
MANAGING FINANCIALLY DISTRESSED PENSION PLANS IN THE INTEREST OF BENEFICIARIES 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 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 0 14 0 0 3 34
Measuring Value Added in the Pensions Industry 0 0 0 46 0 0 1 107
Mental Time Travel and Retirement Savings 0 0 0 0 1 2 2 14
Mental time travel and the valuation of financial investments 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 7
Mental time travel and the valuation of financial investments: analysing five biases that cause pricing anomalies 0 0 1 1 0 1 4 4
Modeling Multicountry Longevity Risk With Mortality Dependence: A Lévy Subordinated Hierarchical Archimedean Copulas Approach 0 0 0 0 0 2 3 25
Modelling and management of mortality risk: a review 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 3
Modelling longevity bonds: Analysing the Swiss Re Kortis bond 0 0 0 17 0 0 1 126
Modelling the Ultimate Absurdity: A Comment on "A Quantitative Study of the Strategic Arms Race in the Missile Age." 0 0 0 8 0 0 1 67
Modelling the composition of personal sector wealth in the UK 0 0 0 56 1 2 4 198
Monetarism and the US economy: A re-evaluation of Stein's model 1960-1973 0 0 0 17 0 1 1 97
Mortality Dependence and Longevity Bond Pricing: A Dynamic Factor Copula Mortality Model With the GAS Structure 0 0 0 7 1 2 2 33
Mortality Leads and Lags 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 17
Mortality density forecasts: An analysis of six stochastic mortality models 0 0 2 114 1 1 15 329
Mortality-dependent financial risk measures 0 0 0 78 0 0 0 176
Mutual Fund Performance: Evidence from the UK 0 1 6 42 0 2 10 128
Network centrality and delegated investment performance 0 0 3 41 0 1 8 168
New Evidence on Mutual Fund Performance: A Comparison of Alternative Bootstrap Methods 0 0 0 10 1 3 3 43
Nudges and Networks: How to Use Behavioural Economics to Improve the Life Cycle Savings-Consumption Balance 0 0 0 4 1 1 2 13
On The Sustainability of the UK State Pension System in the Light of Population Ageing and Declining Fertility 0 0 0 142 1 1 7 445
On the Failure (Success) of the Markets for Longevity Risk Transfer 0 1 1 2 2 4 7 48
On the Structure and Classification of Mortality Models 0 1 2 6 0 3 8 33
Options on normal underlyings with an application to the pricing of survivor swaptions 0 0 0 2 0 1 2 23
PYRRHIC VICTORY? THE UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCE OF THE PENSIONS ACT 2004 0 0 0 14 0 0 2 116
Pension Plan Decisions 0 0 1 3 0 1 3 15
Pension Risk Management in the Enterprise Risk Management Framework 0 0 0 0 1 2 2 70
Pension schemes as options on pension fund assets: implications for pension fund management 0 1 1 144 0 1 3 320
Pensionmetrics 2: stochastic pension plan design during the distribution phase 0 0 1 184 0 1 3 577
Pensionmetrics: stochastic pension plan design and value-at-risk during the accumulation phase 0 0 1 187 0 0 3 442
Performance clustering and incentives in the UK pension fund industry 0 0 0 3 0 1 2 12
Phantoms never die: living with unreliable population data 0 0 0 1 0 2 2 18
Portfolio Behaviour and Asset Pricing in a Characteristics Framework 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 100
Portfolio Choice Models of Pension Funds and Life Assurance Companies: Similarities and Differences 0 0 1 60 0 0 3 146
Pricing Buy‐Ins and Buy‐Outs 0 0 0 0 2 4 7 26
Pricing Death: Frameworks for the Valuation and Securitization of Mortality Risk* 0 0 0 12 0 1 1 61
Projecting Mortality Rates to Extreme Old Age with the CBDX Model 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 4
Quantifying loss aversion: Evidence from a UK population survey 0 0 1 1 0 2 5 13
Reply to “Survivor Bonds: A Comment on Blake and Burrows” 0 0 0 15 0 1 1 80
Returns from active management in international equity markets: Evidence from a panel of UK pension funds 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 6
Robust Mean–Variance Hedging of Longevity Risk 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 20
Securitizing and tranching longevity exposures 0 0 1 18 0 0 3 102
Sharing Longevity Risk: Why Governments Should Issue Longevity Bonds 0 0 0 3 0 0 1 20
Smart defaults: Determining the number of default funds in a pension scheme 0 0 0 1 0 2 5 13
Special Edition: Longevity 10 – The Tenth International Longevity Risk and Capital Markets Solutions Conference 1 2 2 4 1 3 6 36
Special Edition: Longevity 10 – The Tenth International Longevity Risk and Capital Markets Solutions Conference 0 1 1 2 1 2 3 24
Special Edition: Longevity 10 – The Tenth International Longevity Risk and Capital Markets Solutions Conference 1 3 3 4 1 3 5 40
Spend More Today Safely: Using Behavioral Economics to Improve Retirement Expenditure Decisions With SPEEDOMETER Plans 0 0 0 4 0 1 2 55
Stochastic lifestyling: Optimal dynamic asset allocation for defined contribution pension plans 0 0 2 157 2 2 6 419
Survivor Derivatives: A Consistent Pricing Framework 0 0 0 8 0 0 0 53
Survivor Swaps 0 0 2 143 0 0 3 428
Target-driven investing: Optimal investment strategies in defined contribution pension plans under loss aversion 0 0 2 54 0 0 7 252
Target2: The Silent Bailout System That Keeps the Euro Afloat 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 6
Testing models generating time varying asset return expectations and risks: The case of UK private sector pension funds 0 0 0 4 0 0 1 25
The Birth of the Life Market 0 1 2 19 0 1 4 104
The Cost of Counterparty Risk and Collateralization in Longevity Swaps 0 0 0 3 0 0 2 22
The Cross‐Section of Asia‐Pacific Mortality Dynamics: Implications for Longevity Risk Sharing 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 23
The Demand for Cider in the United Kingdom 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 169
The Estimation of Rational Expectations Models: A Survey 1 1 2 2 1 1 5 5
The Great Game Will Never End: Why the Global Financial Crisis Is Bound to Be Repeated 0 0 0 4 3 4 8 20
The Impact of Occupation and Gender on Pensions from Defined Contribution Plans 0 0 1 55 0 0 2 167
The Myth of Methuselah and the Uncertainty of Death: The Mortality Fan Charts 0 0 0 3 0 0 3 49
The New Life Market 0 1 2 21 0 1 5 77
The Performance of UK Exchange Rate Forecasters 0 0 0 55 0 1 1 297
The demand for alcohol in the United Kingdom 0 0 3 276 0 1 6 739
The fisher hypothesis: Evidence from three high inflation economies 0 0 1 93 1 1 2 201
The hazards of mutual fund underperformance: A Cox regression analysis 0 0 0 132 2 2 4 488
The impact of wealth on consumption and retirement behaviour in the UK 0 1 1 77 0 2 4 328
The market for lemmings: The herding behavior of pension funds 0 0 0 32 0 1 3 134
The stochastic analysis of competitive unemployment insurance premiums 0 0 0 14 0 1 3 70
The valuation of no-negative equity guarantees and equity release mortgages 0 0 0 8 0 1 2 48
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 0 1 33 0 1 3 126
“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 1 10
Total Journal Articles 9 29 104 4,796 48 150 459 17,901
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Pension Schemes and Pension Funds in the United Kingdom 0 0 0 0 2 3 21 503
Total Books 0 0 0 0 2 3 21 503


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A Non-linear Model of Portfolio Behaviour With Time-varying Expectations and Risks 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2
Contracting Out of the State Pension System: The British Experience of Carrots and Sticks 0 0 1 16 0 0 1 86
It is all Back to Front: Critical Issues in the Design of Defined Contribution Pension Plans 0 0 0 11 0 1 6 41
Optimal Investment Strategies in Defined Contribution Pension Plans 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3
The United Kingdom: Examining the Switch from Low Public Pensions to High-Cost Private Pensions 0 0 0 21 0 1 1 60
Total Chapters 0 0 1 48 0 2 11 192


Statistics updated 2025-09-05