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A gravity model of mortality rates for two related populations 0 0 0 28 1 2 5 118
Age dependent investing: Optimal funding and investment strategies in defined contribution pension plans when members are rational life cycle financial planners 0 1 1 47 1 3 10 191
Barriers to pension scheme participation in small and medium sized enterprises 0 0 0 4 0 1 3 41
Decentralized Investment Management: Evidence from the Pension Fund Industry 0 0 0 52 0 0 0 214
Decentralized investment management: evidence from the pension fund industry 0 0 0 20 2 5 9 150
Did the Housing Boom Increase Household Spending 0 0 1 32 3 5 11 160
Financial Risks and the Pension Protection Fund: Can it Survive Them? 0 1 1 25 0 2 3 84
Financial Risks and the Pension Protection Fund: Can it Survive Them? 0 0 0 54 0 0 1 217
Financial Risks and the Pension Protection Fund:Can It Survive Them? 0 0 0 26 1 2 4 116
Financial system requirements for successful pension reform 0 0 0 3 2 3 3 39
International Asset Allocation with Time-Varying Investment Opportunities 0 0 0 187 0 2 3 475
International asset allocation with time-varying investment opportunities 0 0 0 2 2 5 5 39
Is immigration the answer to the UK’s pension crisis? 0 0 0 7 1 4 7 46
Keeping Some Skin in the Game: How to Start a Capital Market in Longevity Risk Transfers 0 1 1 18 1 3 5 70
Liability valuation and optimal asset allocation 1 2 2 12 1 3 4 50
Long-term value at risk 0 1 1 16 2 3 4 63
Longevity hedge effectiveness: a decomposition 0 0 0 26 2 4 8 97
Longevity hedging 101: A framework for longevity basis risk analysis and hedge effectiveness 0 0 0 76 1 2 2 324
Longevity risk and capital markets: The 2009-2010 update 0 0 0 46 4 5 5 120
Longevity risk and capital markets: The 2015–16 update 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 38
Longevity risks and capital markets: The 2010-2011 update 0 0 0 28 0 0 2 144
Modelling Socio-Economic Differences in the Mortality of Danish Males Using a New Affluence Index 0 0 1 65 2 3 6 106
Modelling the composition of personal sector wealth in the United Kingdom 0 0 0 1 0 2 2 31
NDC v FDC: Pros, cons and replication 0 0 1 32 4 5 8 459
Network centrality and pension fund performance 0 1 1 43 0 2 4 100
Pensionmetrics 2: stochastic pension plan design during the distribution phase 0 0 0 10 2 7 9 84
Performance Measurement using Multiple Asset Class Portfolio Data 0 0 1 299 0 1 5 1,234
Performance clustering and incentives in the UK pension fund industry 0 0 0 8 1 1 1 43
Returns from active management in international equity markets: evidence from a panel of UK pension funds 0 1 1 3 0 3 4 35
Sharing longevity risk: Why governments should issue longevity bonds 0 1 1 50 2 5 8 192
Spend more today: Using behavioural economics to improve retirement expenditure decisions 0 0 0 27 1 4 5 127
Stochastic lifestyling: optimal dynamic asset allocation for defined contribution pension plans 0 0 0 10 3 5 7 75
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 2 2 38
Target-driven investing: Optimal investment strategies in defined contribution pension plans under loss aversion 0 2 3 59 1 4 8 214
The Hazards of Mutual Fund Underperformance: A Cox Regression Analysis 0 0 0 16 2 2 3 148
The United Kingdom Pension System: Key Issues 0 0 0 33 2 3 8 164
The United Kingdom pension system: key issues 0 0 0 14 1 2 8 77
The cost of counterparty risk and collateralization in longevity swaps 0 0 0 30 3 6 10 141
The impact of wealth on consumption and retirement behaviour in the UK 0 0 0 13 1 4 6 80
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 4 6 10 160
UK pension fund management after Myners: the hunt for correlation begins 0 0 0 6 2 3 5 56
What Should Be Done About The Underfunding of Defined Benefit Pension Schemes? 0 0 0 49 1 4 7 208
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 3 6 6 33
Why does mutual fund performance not persist? The impact and interaction of fund flows and manager changes 0 1 1 69 3 6 10 430
Total Working Papers 1 12 17 1,571 63 140 238 7,031


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A Bayesian Approach to Modeling and Projecting Cohort Effects 0 0 0 3 1 2 2 7
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 8
A General Procedure for Constructing Mortality Models 0 0 1 2 1 1 5 19
A Gravity Model of Mortality Rates for Two Related Populations 0 0 0 0 2 2 3 16
A Quantitative Comparison of Stochastic Mortality Models Using Data From England and Wales and the United States 0 1 2 50 3 6 10 125
A Two‐Factor Model for Stochastic Mortality with Parameter Uncertainty: Theory and Calibration 0 3 12 205 7 20 43 558
After VaR: The Theory, Estimation, and Insurance Applications of Quantile‐Based Risk Measures 0 0 1 78 0 1 3 241
Age-dependent investing: Optimal funding and investment strategies in defined contribution pension plans when members are rational life cycle financial planners 0 0 2 111 0 3 11 343
Annual estimates of personal wealth holdings in the United Kingdom since 1948 0 0 1 37 3 7 9 164
Annuity Markets: Problems and Solutions 0 0 1 177 1 4 8 1,095
Asset Allocation Dynamics and Pension Fund Performance 0 3 7 741 4 8 22 2,704
Backtesting Stochastic Mortality Models 1 1 1 3 1 3 7 19
Bayesian Stochastic Mortality Modelling for Two Populations 0 0 1 7 1 5 7 46
CBDX: a workhorse mortality model from the Cairns–Blake–Dowd family 0 0 0 2 1 1 1 14
Complete systems methods of estimating models with rational and adaptive expectations: A case study 0 0 1 8 0 3 4 35
Correction: Longevity risk and capital markets: the 2022–2023 update 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 4
Debt-equity swaps as bond conversions: implications for pricing 0 0 1 48 1 1 2 146
Decentralized Investment Management: Evidence from the Pension Fund Industry 0 1 1 22 0 3 4 122
Default Funds in U.K. Defined-Contribution Plans (corrected) 0 1 1 1 0 3 6 6
Defined contribution pensions: dealing with the reluctant investor 0 0 0 12 0 2 3 69
Designing a Defined-Contribution Plan: What to Learn from Aircraft Designers 0 0 0 0 0 2 5 5
Does It Matter What Type of Pension Scheme You Have? 0 0 0 107 0 5 6 278
Efficiency, Risk Aversion and Portfolio Insurance: An Analysis of Financial Asset Portfolios Held by Investors in the United Kingdom 0 0 0 257 1 2 5 847
Evaluating the goodness of fit of stochastic mortality models 0 0 0 22 2 10 11 115
Facing up to uncertain life expectancy: The longevity fan charts 0 0 0 8 0 1 2 49
Financial Intermediation and Financial Innovation in a Characteristics Framework 0 0 0 0 2 3 4 449
Forward Mortality Rates in Discrete Time I: Calibration and Securities Pricing 0 0 1 2 0 0 2 6
Forward Mortality Rates in Discrete Time II: Longevity Risk and Hedging Strategies 0 0 0 1 2 2 3 9
Fund Flows, Manager Changes, and Performance Persistence* 0 0 1 4 1 1 4 10
Good Practice Principles in Modelling Defined Contribution Pension Plans 0 0 0 6 2 2 2 12
Hedging Annuity Risks with the Age-Period-Cohort Two-Population Gravity Model 0 0 0 1 1 1 3 13
Hedging Longevity Risk in Life Settlements Using Biomedical Research‐Backed Obligations 0 0 0 1 1 5 5 20
Identifiability in age/period mortality models 0 0 1 4 0 1 2 14
Identifiability in age/period/cohort mortality models 0 0 0 4 0 1 3 14
Identifiability, cointegration and the gravity model 0 0 0 10 1 4 6 45
Improved inference in the evaluation of mutual fund performance using panel bootstrap methods 0 0 1 18 0 0 3 111
Informed Intermediation of Longevity Exposures 0 0 0 4 0 1 1 28
International Asset Allocation with Time-Varying Investment Opportunities 0 0 0 95 1 2 2 362
Keeping Some Skin in the Game: How to Start a Capital Market in Longevity Risk Transfers 0 0 0 1 0 4 5 12
Le nouveau marché du risque de longévité 0 0 0 3 2 3 5 30
Living with Mortality: Longevity Bonds and Other Mortality-Linked Securities 0 2 3 8 3 8 10 49
Longevity Bonds: Financial Engineering, Valuation, and Hedging 0 0 1 98 0 4 8 233
Longevity Hedging 101 0 0 0 1 1 2 2 10
Longevity Risk and Capital Markets 0 0 0 15 1 2 4 63
Longevity Risk and Capital Markets 0 0 0 0 1 2 2 11
Longevity Risk and Capital Markets: The 2007-2008 Update 0 0 0 7 0 1 4 57
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 0 0 1 2 0 1 3 8
Longevity Risk and Capital Markets: The 2014–15 Update 0 0 2 4 1 1 7 32
Longevity Risk and Capital Markets: The 2016–2017 Update 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 3
Longevity Risk and Capital Markets: The 2017–2018 Update 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 7
Longevity hedge effectiveness: a decomposition 0 0 0 2 1 3 5 43
Longevity risk and capital markets: The 2008-2009 update 0 0 0 30 0 2 3 75
Longevity risk and capital markets: The 2015–16 update 0 1 3 9 2 9 16 68
Longevity risk and capital markets: The 2019-20 update 0 0 0 17 4 18 26 87
Longevity risk and capital markets: the 2021–22 update 0 0 0 2 0 1 1 10
Longevity risk and capital markets: the 2021–22 update 0 0 0 1 1 2 4 8
Longevity risk and capital markets: the 2022–2023 update 0 0 0 3 0 2 5 11
Longevity risk and the Grim Reaper's toxic tail: The survivor fan charts 0 0 2 36 1 2 6 181
Longevity: a new asset class 0 1 3 8 3 10 13 47
Long‐Term Value at Risk 0 0 1 1 2 4 12 15
MANAGING FINANCIALLY DISTRESSED PENSION PLANS IN THE INTEREST OF BENEFICIARIES 0 0 0 0 0 2 3 23
MODELLING MORTALITY FOR PENSION SCHEMES 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 21
MODELLING SOCIO-ECONOMIC DIFFERENCES IN MORTALITY USING A NEW AFFLUENCE INDEX 0 0 0 14 1 1 4 35
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 3 5 17
Mental time travel and the valuation of financial investments 0 0 0 2 2 2 3 9
Mental time travel and the valuation of financial investments: analysing five biases that cause pricing anomalies 0 0 1 1 1 3 7 7
Modeling Multicountry Longevity Risk With Mortality Dependence: A Lévy Subordinated Hierarchical Archimedean Copulas Approach 0 0 0 0 1 2 5 28
Modelling and management of mortality risk: a review 0 0 0 1 1 3 4 6
Modelling longevity bonds: Analysing the Swiss Re Kortis bond 0 0 0 17 1 6 7 132
Modelling the Ultimate Absurdity: A Comment on "A Quantitative Study of the Strategic Arms Race in the Missile Age." 0 0 0 8 1 2 3 69
Modelling the composition of personal sector wealth in the UK 0 0 1 57 4 5 10 204
Monetarism and the US economy: A re-evaluation of Stein's model 1960-1973 0 0 0 17 0 0 1 97
Mortality Dependence and Longevity Bond Pricing: A Dynamic Factor Copula Mortality Model With the GAS Structure 0 0 0 7 1 2 5 36
Mortality Leads and Lags 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 17
Mortality density forecasts: An analysis of six stochastic mortality models 1 2 3 116 7 15 24 345
Mortality-dependent financial risk measures 0 0 0 78 0 0 0 176
Mutual Fund Performance: Evidence from the UK 0 2 5 44 2 5 11 133
Network centrality and delegated investment performance 0 0 0 41 0 3 5 171
New Evidence on Mutual Fund Performance: A Comparison of Alternative Bootstrap Methods 0 0 0 10 2 2 5 45
Nudges and Networks: How to Use Behavioural Economics to Improve the Life Cycle Savings-Consumption Balance 0 0 0 4 1 1 3 14
On The Sustainability of the UK State Pension System in the Light of Population Ageing and Declining Fertility 0 0 0 142 2 5 8 450
On the Failure (Success) of the Markets for Longevity Risk Transfer 0 0 1 2 0 1 7 49
On the Structure and Classification of Mortality Models 0 1 3 7 1 2 10 35
Options on normal underlyings with an application to the pricing of survivor swaptions 0 0 0 2 1 1 3 24
PYRRHIC VICTORY? THE UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCE OF THE PENSIONS ACT 2004 0 0 0 14 0 2 4 118
Pension Plan Decisions 0 0 0 3 0 2 4 17
Pension Risk Management in the Enterprise Risk Management Framework 0 0 0 0 2 3 5 73
Pension schemes as options on pension fund assets: implications for pension fund management 0 0 1 144 2 5 7 325
Pensionmetrics 2: stochastic pension plan design during the distribution phase 0 0 0 184 2 2 6 581
Pensionmetrics: stochastic pension plan design and value-at-risk during the accumulation phase 0 0 1 187 2 4 6 446
Performance clustering and incentives in the UK pension fund industry 0 0 0 3 3 6 7 18
Phantoms never die: living with unreliable population data 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 18
Portfolio Behaviour and Asset Pricing in a Characteristics Framework 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 101
Portfolio Choice Models of Pension Funds and Life Assurance Companies: Similarities and Differences 0 1 2 61 1 2 5 148
Pricing Buy‐Ins and Buy‐Outs 0 0 0 0 1 2 9 29
Pricing Death: Frameworks for the Valuation and Securitization of Mortality Risk* 0 0 0 12 1 5 7 67
Projecting Mortality Rates to Extreme Old Age with the CBDX Model 0 0 0 1 1 1 3 5
Quantifying loss aversion: Evidence from a UK population survey 1 1 2 2 4 6 11 20
Reply to “Survivor Bonds: A Comment on Blake and Burrows” 0 0 0 15 2 3 4 83
Returns from active management in international equity markets: Evidence from a panel of UK pension funds 0 0 0 1 2 2 2 8
Robust Mean–Variance Hedging of Longevity Risk 0 0 0 0 1 3 5 23
Securitizing and tranching longevity exposures 0 0 1 18 0 1 4 103
Sharing Longevity Risk: Why Governments Should Issue Longevity Bonds 0 0 0 3 0 1 2 21
Smart defaults: Determining the number of default funds in a pension scheme 0 0 0 1 1 2 6 15
Spend More Today Safely: Using Behavioral Economics to Improve Retirement Expenditure Decisions With SPEEDOMETER Plans 0 0 0 4 3 5 8 61
Stochastic lifestyling: Optimal dynamic asset allocation for defined contribution pension plans 0 0 2 158 3 6 12 426
Survivor Derivatives: A Consistent Pricing Framework 0 0 0 8 1 2 2 55
Survivor Swaps 0 0 1 143 1 2 4 430
Target-driven investing: Optimal investment strategies in defined contribution pension plans under loss aversion 0 0 1 54 1 2 6 254
Target2: The Silent Bailout System That Keeps the Euro Afloat 0 0 0 1 7 12 12 18
Testing models generating time varying asset return expectations and risks: The case of UK private sector pension funds 0 0 0 4 1 2 3 27
The Birth of the Life Market 0 0 2 19 2 3 6 107
The Cost of Counterparty Risk and Collateralization in Longevity Swaps 0 0 0 3 2 3 4 25
The Cross‐Section of Asia‐Pacific Mortality Dynamics: Implications for Longevity Risk Sharing 0 0 0 1 3 5 5 28
The Demand for Cider in the United Kingdom 0 0 0 0 2 6 8 175
The Estimation of Rational Expectations Models: A Survey 0 0 2 2 1 2 7 7
The Great Game Will Never End: Why the Global Financial Crisis Is Bound to Be Repeated 0 0 0 4 2 3 10 23
The Impact of Occupation and Gender on Pensions from Defined Contribution Plans 0 0 0 55 1 2 2 169
The Myth of Methuselah and the Uncertainty of Death: The Mortality Fan Charts 0 0 0 3 0 3 4 52
The New Life Market 0 1 2 22 2 6 8 83
The Performance of UK Exchange Rate Forecasters 0 0 0 55 2 4 5 301
The demand for alcohol in the United Kingdom 0 0 2 276 3 8 13 748
The fisher hypothesis: Evidence from three high inflation economies 0 0 0 93 0 1 2 202
The hazards of mutual fund underperformance: A Cox regression analysis 0 1 1 133 0 2 6 491
The impact of wealth on consumption and retirement behaviour in the UK 0 0 1 77 0 0 3 328
The market for lemmings: The herding behavior of pension funds 0 1 2 34 0 2 4 137
The stochastic analysis of competitive unemployment insurance premiums 0 0 0 14 0 1 4 71
The valuation of no-negative equity guarantees and equity release mortgages 0 0 0 8 0 1 2 49
UK pension fund management after Myners: The hunt for correlation begins 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 5
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 5 128
“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 2 3 12
Total Journal Articles 3 24 91 4,816 157 407 752 18,237
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Pension Schemes and Pension Funds in the United Kingdom 0 0 0 0 3 8 21 511
Total Books 0 0 0 0 3 8 21 511


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A Non-linear Model of Portfolio Behaviour With Time-varying Expectations and Risks 0 0 0 0 0 2 4 4
Contracting Out of the State Pension System: The British Experience of Carrots and Sticks 0 0 0 16 2 2 2 88
It is all Back to Front: Critical Issues in the Design of Defined Contribution Pension Plans 0 0 0 11 0 0 6 41
Optimal Investment Strategies in Defined Contribution Pension Plans 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 4
The United Kingdom: Examining the Switch from Low Public Pensions to High-Cost Private Pensions 0 1 1 22 5 6 7 66
Total Chapters 0 1 1 49 8 11 21 203


Statistics updated 2026-01-09