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A gravity model of mortality rates for two related populations 0 0 0 28 2 6 10 123
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 4 10 194
Barriers to pension scheme participation in small and medium sized enterprises 0 0 0 4 1 4 6 45
Decentralized Investment Management: Evidence from the Pension Fund Industry 0 0 0 52 0 2 2 216
Decentralized investment management: evidence from the pension fund industry 0 0 0 20 0 9 14 157
Did the Housing Boom Increase Household Spending 0 0 1 32 2 14 21 171
Financial Risks and the Pension Protection Fund: Can it Survive Them? 0 0 0 54 0 3 4 220
Financial Risks and the Pension Protection Fund: Can it Survive Them? 0 0 1 25 0 2 5 86
Financial Risks and the Pension Protection Fund:Can It Survive Them? 0 0 0 26 0 4 6 119
Financial risks and the Pension Protection Fund: can it survive them? 0 0 1 1 1 3 5 5
Financial system requirements for successful pension reform 0 0 0 3 0 4 5 41
International Asset Allocation with Time-Varying Investment Opportunities 0 0 0 187 0 4 7 479
International asset allocation with time-varying investment opportunities 0 0 0 2 1 4 7 41
Is immigration the answer to the UK’s pension crisis? 0 0 0 7 0 6 10 51
Keeping Some Skin in the Game: How to Start a Capital Market in Longevity Risk Transfers 0 0 1 18 0 2 6 71
Liability valuation and optimal asset allocation 0 1 2 12 0 5 8 54
Long-term value at risk 0 0 1 16 0 2 4 63
Longevity hedge effectiveness: a decomposition 0 0 0 26 1 6 12 101
Longevity hedging 101: A framework for longevity basis risk analysis and hedge effectiveness 0 0 0 76 0 1 2 324
Longevity risk and capital markets: The 2009-2010 update 0 0 0 46 1 5 6 121
Longevity risk and capital markets: The 2015–16 update 0 0 0 0 1 3 5 41
Longevity risks and capital markets: The 2010-2011 update 0 0 0 28 0 1 2 145
Modelling Socio-Economic Differences in the Mortality of Danish Males Using a New Affluence Index 0 0 1 65 0 5 8 109
Modelling the composition of personal sector wealth in the United Kingdom 0 0 0 1 4 8 10 39
NDC v FDC: Pros, cons and replication 0 0 1 32 1 6 9 461
Network centrality and pension fund performance 0 0 1 43 0 1 3 101
Pensionmetrics 2: stochastic pension plan design during the distribution phase 0 0 0 10 1 6 13 88
Performance Measurement using Multiple Asset Class Portfolio Data 0 0 1 299 1 6 8 1,240
Performance clustering and incentives in the UK pension fund industry 0 0 0 8 0 2 2 44
Returns from active management in international equity markets: evidence from a panel of UK pension funds 0 0 1 3 0 0 4 35
Sharing longevity risk: Why governments should issue longevity bonds 0 0 1 50 0 7 13 197
Spend more today: Using behavioural economics to improve retirement expenditure decisions 0 0 0 27 0 5 9 131
Stochastic lifestyling: optimal dynamic asset allocation for defined contribution pension plans 0 0 0 10 6 16 20 88
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 1 2 38
Target-driven investing: Optimal investment strategies in defined contribution pension plans under loss aversion 0 0 3 59 3 8 15 221
The Hazards of Mutual Fund Underperformance: A Cox Regression Analysis 0 0 0 16 2 5 6 151
The United Kingdom Pension System: Key Issues 0 0 0 33 1 6 12 168
The United Kingdom pension system: key issues 0 0 0 14 1 5 11 81
The cost of counterparty risk and collateralization in longevity swaps 0 0 0 30 0 4 10 142
The impact of wealth on consumption and retirement behaviour in the UK 0 0 0 13 1 6 11 85
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 7 13 163
UK pension fund management after Myners: the hunt for correlation begins 0 0 0 6 0 5 8 59
What Should Be Done About The Underfunding of Defined Benefit Pension Schemes? 0 0 0 49 1 4 9 211
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 5 8 35
Why does mutual fund performance not persist? The impact and interaction of fund flows and manager changes 0 0 1 69 2 10 15 437
Total Working Papers 0 1 18 1,572 34 222 376 7,192


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A Bayesian Approach to Modeling and Projecting Cohort Effects 0 0 0 3 1 4 5 10
A Computationally Efficient Algorithm for Estimating the Distribution of Future Annuity Values Under Interest-Rate and Longevity Risks 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 8
A General Procedure for Constructing Mortality Models 0 0 1 2 2 5 7 23
A Gravity Model of Mortality Rates for Two Related Populations 0 0 0 0 1 3 4 17
A Quantitative Comparison of Stochastic Mortality Models Using Data From England and Wales and the United States 1 1 2 51 1 7 12 129
A Two‐Factor Model for Stochastic Mortality with Parameter Uncertainty: Theory and Calibration 1 2 12 207 4 22 52 573
After VaR: The Theory, Estimation, and Insurance Applications of Quantile‐Based Risk Measures 0 1 1 79 0 3 5 244
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 3 11 346
Annual estimates of personal wealth holdings in the United Kingdom since 1948 0 0 1 37 2 6 12 167
Annuity Markets: Problems and Solutions 1 1 1 178 2 11 17 1,105
Asset Allocation Dynamics and Pension Fund Performance 0 1 8 742 0 9 27 2,709
Backtesting Stochastic Mortality Models 0 1 1 3 0 2 8 20
Bayesian Stochastic Mortality Modelling for Two Populations 0 0 1 7 0 2 8 47
CBDX: a workhorse mortality model from the Cairns–Blake–Dowd family 0 0 0 2 2 3 3 16
Complete systems methods of estimating models with rational and adaptive expectations: A case study 0 0 1 8 0 0 4 35
Correction: Longevity risk and capital markets: the 2022–2023 update 0 0 0 0 0 2 5 6
Correction: Quantifying loss aversion: Evidence from a UK population survey 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Debt-equity swaps as bond conversions: implications for pricing 0 0 1 48 0 1 2 146
Decentralized Investment Management: Evidence from the Pension Fund Industry 0 0 1 22 1 6 10 128
Default Funds in U.K. Defined-Contribution Plans (corrected) 0 0 1 1 1 3 8 9
Defined contribution pensions: dealing with the reluctant investor 0 0 0 12 1 2 4 71
Designing a Defined-Contribution Plan: What to Learn from Aircraft Designers 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 5
Does It Matter What Type of Pension Scheme You Have? 0 0 0 107 2 5 11 283
Efficiency, Risk Aversion and Portfolio Insurance: An Analysis of Financial Asset Portfolios Held by Investors in the United Kingdom 0 0 0 257 0 4 8 850
Evaluating the goodness of fit of stochastic mortality models 0 0 0 22 1 8 17 121
Facing up to uncertain life expectancy: The longevity fan charts 0 0 0 8 1 4 6 53
Financial Intermediation and Financial Innovation in a Characteristics Framework 0 0 0 0 2 5 7 452
Forward Mortality Rates in Discrete Time I: Calibration and Securities Pricing 0 0 1 2 2 3 4 9
Forward Mortality Rates in Discrete Time II: Longevity Risk and Hedging Strategies 0 0 0 1 0 3 4 10
Fund Flows, Manager Changes, and Performance Persistence* 1 1 2 5 1 4 6 13
Good Practice Principles in Modelling Defined Contribution Pension Plans 0 0 0 6 0 3 3 13
Hedging Annuity Risks with the Age-Period-Cohort Two-Population Gravity Model 0 0 0 1 1 4 6 16
Hedging Longevity Risk in Life Settlements Using Biomedical Research‐Backed Obligations 0 0 0 1 1 5 9 24
Identifiability in age/period mortality models 0 0 1 4 0 2 4 16
Identifiability in age/period/cohort mortality models 0 0 0 4 1 2 5 16
Identifiability, cointegration and the gravity model 0 0 0 10 1 3 8 47
Improved inference in the evaluation of mutual fund performance using panel bootstrap methods 0 0 1 18 0 2 5 113
Informed Intermediation of Longevity Exposures 0 0 0 4 1 4 5 32
International Asset Allocation with Time-Varying Investment Opportunities 0 0 0 95 0 3 4 364
Keeping Some Skin in the Game: How to Start a Capital Market in Longevity Risk Transfers 0 0 0 1 0 5 9 17
Le nouveau marché du risque de longévité 0 0 0 3 0 2 3 30
Living with Mortality: Longevity Bonds and Other Mortality-Linked Securities 0 0 3 8 2 8 15 54
Longevity Bonds: Financial Engineering, Valuation, and Hedging 0 0 1 98 2 5 12 238
Longevity Hedging 101 1 1 1 2 1 3 4 12
Longevity Risk and Capital Markets 0 0 0 15 0 2 4 64
Longevity Risk and Capital Markets 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 11
Longevity Risk and Capital Markets: The 2007-2008 Update 0 0 0 7 2 4 7 61
Longevity Risk and Capital Markets: The 2010–2011 Update 0 0 0 20 1 3 3 113
Longevity Risk and Capital Markets: The 2011–2012 Update 0 0 0 16 0 1 1 59
Longevity Risk and Capital Markets: The 2012–2013 Update 0 0 1 2 0 0 2 8
Longevity Risk and Capital Markets: The 2014–15 Update 0 0 2 4 1 5 8 36
Longevity Risk and Capital Markets: The 2016–2017 Update 0 0 0 0 0 2 3 5
Longevity Risk and Capital Markets: The 2017–2018 Update 0 0 0 2 0 1 1 8
Longevity hedge effectiveness: a decomposition 0 0 0 2 0 4 8 46
Longevity risk and capital markets: The 2008-2009 update 0 0 0 30 0 3 6 78
Longevity risk and capital markets: The 2015–16 update 0 0 3 9 2 9 22 75
Longevity risk and capital markets: The 2019-20 update 0 0 0 17 3 10 31 93
Longevity risk and capital markets: the 2021–22 update 0 0 0 1 1 3 6 10
Longevity risk and capital markets: the 2021–22 update 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 10
Longevity risk and capital markets: the 2022–2023 update 0 0 0 3 0 7 11 18
Longevity risk and the Grim Reaper's toxic tail: The survivor fan charts 0 0 1 36 1 5 9 185
Longevity: a new asset class 0 0 2 8 1 9 17 53
Long‐Term Value at Risk 0 0 1 1 0 7 17 20
MANAGING FINANCIALLY DISTRESSED PENSION PLANS IN THE INTEREST OF BENEFICIARIES 0 0 0 0 1 4 7 27
MODELLING MORTALITY FOR PENSION SCHEMES 0 0 0 5 1 2 2 23
MODELLING SOCIO-ECONOMIC DIFFERENCES IN MORTALITY USING A NEW AFFLUENCE INDEX 0 0 0 14 0 1 3 35
Measuring Value Added in the Pensions Industry 0 0 0 46 0 0 0 107
Mental Time Travel and Retirement Savings 0 0 0 0 2 6 10 22
Mental time travel and the valuation of financial investments 0 0 0 2 0 5 6 12
Mental time travel and the valuation of financial investments: analysing five biases that cause pricing anomalies 0 0 1 1 2 5 10 11
Modeling Multicountry Longevity Risk With Mortality Dependence: A Lévy Subordinated Hierarchical Archimedean Copulas Approach 0 0 0 0 0 6 10 33
Modelling and management of mortality risk: a review 0 0 0 1 1 8 11 13
Modelling longevity bonds: Analysing the Swiss Re Kortis bond 0 0 0 17 0 5 10 136
Modelling the Ultimate Absurdity: A Comment on "A Quantitative Study of the Strategic Arms Race in the Missile Age." 0 0 0 8 0 4 5 72
Modelling the composition of personal sector wealth in the UK 0 0 1 57 0 9 15 209
Monetarism and the US economy: A re-evaluation of Stein's model 1960-1973 0 0 0 17 0 2 3 99
Mortality Dependence and Longevity Bond Pricing: A Dynamic Factor Copula Mortality Model With the GAS Structure 0 0 0 7 1 3 7 38
Mortality Leads and Lags 0 0 0 1 0 2 2 19
Mortality density forecasts: An analysis of six stochastic mortality models 0 1 3 116 3 12 23 350
Mortality-dependent financial risk measures 0 0 0 78 0 0 0 176
Mutual Fund Performance: Evidence from the UK 0 0 5 44 0 3 11 134
Network centrality and delegated investment performance 0 0 0 41 2 5 9 176
New Evidence on Mutual Fund Performance: A Comparison of Alternative Bootstrap Methods 0 0 0 10 0 5 8 48
Nudges and Networks: How to Use Behavioural Economics to Improve the Life Cycle Savings-Consumption Balance 0 0 0 4 0 5 6 18
On The Sustainability of the UK State Pension System in the Light of Population Ageing and Declining Fertility 0 0 0 142 0 6 12 454
On the Failure (Success) of the Markets for Longevity Risk Transfer 0 0 1 2 2 6 12 55
On the Structure and Classification of Mortality Models 1 1 3 8 2 3 9 37
Options on normal underlyings with an application to the pricing of survivor swaptions 0 0 0 2 0 3 4 26
PYRRHIC VICTORY? THE UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCE OF THE PENSIONS ACT 2004 0 0 0 14 1 3 5 121
Pension Plan Decisions 0 0 0 3 1 5 8 22
Pension Risk Management in the Enterprise Risk Management Framework 0 1 1 1 0 5 8 76
Pension schemes as options on pension fund assets: implications for pension fund management 0 0 1 144 0 6 11 329
Pensionmetrics 2: stochastic pension plan design during the distribution phase 0 0 0 184 1 5 8 584
Pensionmetrics: stochastic pension plan design and value-at-risk during the accumulation phase 0 0 1 187 0 5 9 449
Performance clustering and incentives in the UK pension fund industry 0 0 0 3 2 6 10 21
Phantoms never die: living with unreliable population data 0 0 0 1 1 2 4 20
Portfolio Behaviour and Asset Pricing in a Characteristics Framework 0 0 0 0 0 3 4 103
Portfolio Choice Models of Pension Funds and Life Assurance Companies: Similarities and Differences 0 0 2 61 0 6 8 153
Pricing Buy‐Ins and Buy‐Outs 0 0 0 0 0 5 12 33
Pricing Death: Frameworks for the Valuation and Securitization of Mortality Risk* 0 0 0 12 1 6 12 72
Projecting Mortality Rates to Extreme Old Age with the CBDX Model 0 0 0 1 0 4 5 8
Quantifying loss aversion: Evidence from a UK population survey 1 2 2 3 3 13 19 29
Reply to “Survivor Bonds: A Comment on Blake and Burrows” 0 0 0 15 1 9 11 90
Returns from active management in international equity markets: Evidence from a panel of UK pension funds 0 0 0 1 1 4 4 10
Robust Mean–Variance Hedging of Longevity Risk 0 0 0 0 0 3 6 25
Securitizing and tranching longevity exposures 0 0 1 18 2 5 9 108
Sharing Longevity Risk: Why Governments Should Issue Longevity Bonds 0 0 0 3 0 3 4 24
Smart defaults: Determining the number of default funds in a pension scheme 0 0 0 1 0 3 6 17
Spend More Today Safely: Using Behavioral Economics to Improve Retirement Expenditure Decisions With SPEEDOMETER Plans 0 0 0 4 3 7 11 65
Stochastic lifestyling: Optimal dynamic asset allocation for defined contribution pension plans 0 2 4 160 2 12 20 435
Survivor Derivatives: A Consistent Pricing Framework 0 0 0 8 0 2 3 56
Survivor Swaps 0 0 0 143 0 2 4 431
Target-driven investing: Optimal investment strategies in defined contribution pension plans under loss aversion 0 0 1 54 1 5 9 258
Target2: The Silent Bailout System That Keeps the Euro Afloat 0 0 0 1 3 18 23 29
Testing models generating time varying asset return expectations and risks: The case of UK private sector pension funds 0 0 0 4 1 3 4 29
The Birth of the Life Market 0 0 2 19 1 7 11 112
The Cost of Counterparty Risk and Collateralization in Longevity Swaps 0 0 0 3 1 9 11 32
The Cross‐Section of Asia‐Pacific Mortality Dynamics: Implications for Longevity Risk Sharing 0 0 0 1 0 4 6 29
The Demand for Cider in the United Kingdom 0 0 0 0 0 3 9 176
The Estimation of Rational Expectations Models: A Survey 0 0 1 2 0 2 4 8
The Great Game Will Never End: Why the Global Financial Crisis Is Bound to Be Repeated 0 0 0 4 1 5 13 26
The Impact of Occupation and Gender on Pensions from Defined Contribution Plans 0 0 0 55 1 2 3 170
The Myth of Methuselah and the Uncertainty of Death: The Mortality Fan Charts 0 0 0 3 0 3 6 55
The New Life Market 0 0 2 22 0 2 7 83
The Performance of UK Exchange Rate Forecasters 0 0 0 55 4 10 13 309
The demand for alcohol in the United Kingdom 0 0 2 276 1 7 16 752
The fisher hypothesis: Evidence from three high inflation economies 0 1 1 94 0 4 6 206
The hazards of mutual fund underperformance: A Cox regression analysis 0 0 1 133 0 1 7 492
The impact of wealth on consumption and retirement behaviour in the UK 0 0 1 77 0 1 4 329
The market for lemmings: The herding behavior of pension funds 0 0 2 34 1 5 9 142
The stochastic analysis of competitive unemployment insurance premiums 0 0 0 14 0 2 4 73
The valuation of no-negative equity guarantees and equity release mortgages 0 0 0 8 0 5 7 54
UK pension fund management after Myners: The hunt for correlation begins 0 0 0 0 1 10 10 14
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 4 7 132
“Pensions and Capital Structure: Why Hold Equities in the Pension Fund?”, John Ralfe, Cliff Speed, and Jon Palin, July 2004 0 0 0 1 1 2 4 14
Total Journal Articles 7 17 92 4,830 103 605 1,112 18,685
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Pension Schemes and Pension Funds in the United Kingdom 0 0 0 0 2 6 20 514
Total Books 0 0 0 0 2 6 20 514


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A Non-linear Model of Portfolio Behaviour With Time-varying Expectations and Risks 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 5
Contracting Out of the State Pension System: The British Experience of Carrots and Sticks 0 0 0 16 0 4 4 90
It is all Back to Front: Critical Issues in the Design of Defined Contribution Pension Plans 0 0 0 11 1 2 5 43
Optimal Investment Strategies in Defined Contribution Pension Plans 0 0 0 0 1 2 2 5
The United Kingdom: Examining the Switch from Low Public Pensions to High-Cost Private Pensions 0 0 1 22 0 6 8 67
Total Chapters 0 0 1 49 2 15 22 210


Statistics updated 2026-03-04