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A gravity model of mortality rates for two related populations 0 1 1 29 3 6 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 2 2 12 196
Barriers to pension scheme participation in small and medium sized enterprises 0 0 0 4 2 3 8 47
Decentralized Investment Management: Evidence from the Pension Fund Industry 0 0 0 52 5 5 7 221
Decentralized investment management: evidence from the pension fund industry 0 0 0 20 1 1 13 158
Did the Housing Boom Increase Household Spending 0 0 1 32 2 4 22 173
Financial Risks and the Pension Protection Fund: Can it Survive Them? 0 1 2 26 1 2 7 88
Financial Risks and the Pension Protection Fund: Can it Survive Them? 0 0 0 54 4 4 7 224
Financial Risks and the Pension Protection Fund:Can It Survive Them? 0 0 0 26 4 4 10 123
Financial risks and the Pension Protection Fund: can it survive them? 0 0 1 1 0 1 5 5
Financial system requirements for successful pension reform 0 0 0 3 4 4 9 45
International Asset Allocation with Time-Varying Investment Opportunities 0 0 0 187 4 5 12 484
International asset allocation with time-varying investment opportunities 0 0 0 2 1 2 8 42
Is immigration the answer to the UK’s pension crisis? 0 0 0 7 12 12 22 63
Keeping Some Skin in the Game: How to Start a Capital Market in Longevity Risk Transfers 0 0 1 18 0 0 4 71
Liability valuation and optimal asset allocation 0 0 2 12 2 3 11 57
Long-term value at risk 0 0 1 16 2 2 5 65
Longevity hedge effectiveness: a decomposition 0 0 0 26 2 3 14 103
Longevity hedging 101: A framework for longevity basis risk analysis and hedge effectiveness 0 0 0 76 3 5 7 329
Longevity risk and capital markets: The 2009-2010 update 0 0 0 46 0 1 6 121
Longevity risk and capital markets: The 2015–16 update 0 0 0 0 6 7 11 47
Longevity risks and capital markets: The 2010-2011 update 0 0 0 28 3 4 6 149
Modelling Socio-Economic Differences in the Mortality of Danish Males Using a New Affluence Index 0 0 1 65 1 1 9 110
Modelling the composition of personal sector wealth in the United Kingdom 0 0 0 1 2 6 12 41
NDC v FDC: Pros, cons and replication 0 0 1 32 3 4 11 464
Network centrality and pension fund performance 0 0 1 43 1 1 4 102
Pensionmetrics 2: stochastic pension plan design during the distribution phase 0 0 0 10 2 4 15 91
Performance Measurement using Multiple Asset Class Portfolio Data 0 0 0 299 1 2 8 1,241
Performance clustering and incentives in the UK pension fund industry 0 0 0 8 1 1 3 45
Returns from active management in international equity markets: evidence from a panel of UK pension funds 0 0 1 3 2 2 6 37
Sharing longevity risk: Why governments should issue longevity bonds 0 0 1 50 3 5 17 202
Spend more today: Using behavioural economics to improve retirement expenditure decisions 0 0 0 27 2 2 11 133
Stochastic lifestyling: optimal dynamic asset allocation for defined contribution pension plans 0 1 1 11 0 7 21 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 3 3 5 41
Target-driven investing: Optimal investment strategies in defined contribution pension plans under loss aversion 0 0 3 59 1 5 16 223
The Hazards of Mutual Fund Underperformance: A Cox Regression Analysis 0 0 0 16 0 2 6 151
The United Kingdom Pension System: Key Issues 0 0 0 33 5 8 18 175
The United Kingdom pension system: key issues 0 0 0 14 1 2 11 82
The cost of counterparty risk and collateralization in longevity swaps 0 0 0 30 4 4 14 146
The impact of wealth on consumption and retirement behaviour in the UK 0 0 0 13 0 4 14 88
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 5 18 168
UK pension fund management after Myners: the hunt for correlation begins 0 0 0 6 3 3 11 62
What Should Be Done About The Underfunding of Defined Benefit Pension Schemes? 1 1 1 50 2 3 11 213
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 1 2 10 37
Why does mutual fund performance not persist? The impact and interaction of fund flows and manager changes 0 0 1 69 6 8 20 443
Total Working Papers 1 4 21 1,576 111 164 490 7,322


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A Bayesian Approach to Modeling and Projecting Cohort Effects 0 0 0 3 1 2 6 11
A Computationally Efficient Algorithm for Estimating the Distribution of Future Annuity Values Under Interest-Rate and Longevity Risks 0 0 0 2 1 1 1 9
A General Procedure for Constructing Mortality Models 0 0 0 2 0 3 7 24
A Gravity Model of Mortality Rates for Two Related Populations 0 0 0 0 2 4 7 20
A Quantitative Comparison of Stochastic Mortality Models Using Data From England and Wales and the United States 0 1 2 51 0 4 15 132
A Two‐Factor Model for Stochastic Mortality with Parameter Uncertainty: Theory and Calibration 2 4 14 210 4 9 55 578
After VaR: The Theory, Estimation, and Insurance Applications of Quantile‐Based Risk Measures 0 1 2 80 0 2 6 246
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 12 347
Annual estimates of personal wealth holdings in the United Kingdom since 1948 0 0 1 37 5 7 17 172
Annuity Markets: Problems and Solutions 0 1 1 178 0 2 16 1,105
Asset Allocation Dynamics and Pension Fund Performance 0 1 9 743 0 2 28 2,711
Backtesting Stochastic Mortality Models 0 0 1 3 3 3 10 23
Bayesian Stochastic Mortality Modelling for Two Populations 0 0 1 7 2 2 10 49
CBDX: a workhorse mortality model from the Cairns–Blake–Dowd family 0 0 0 2 1 4 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 1 1 6 7
Correction: Quantifying loss aversion: Evidence from a UK population survey 0 0 0 0 2 2 2 2
Debt-equity swaps as bond conversions: implications for pricing 0 0 0 48 7 7 8 153
Decentralized Investment Management: Evidence from the Pension Fund Industry 0 0 1 22 4 9 17 136
Default Funds in U.K. Defined-Contribution Plans (corrected) 0 0 1 1 3 4 10 12
Defined contribution pensions: dealing with the reluctant investor 0 0 0 12 1 2 5 72
Designing a Defined-Contribution Plan: What to Learn from Aircraft Designers 0 0 0 0 1 1 5 6
Does It Matter What Type of Pension Scheme You Have? 0 0 0 107 4 7 16 288
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 9 852
Evaluating the goodness of fit of stochastic mortality models 0 0 0 22 1 4 19 124
Facing up to uncertain life expectancy: The longevity fan charts 0 0 0 8 1 2 7 54
Financial Intermediation and Financial Innovation in a Characteristics Framework 0 0 0 0 1 3 8 453
Forward Mortality Rates in Discrete Time I: Calibration and Securities Pricing 0 0 1 2 1 3 5 10
Forward Mortality Rates in Discrete Time II: Longevity Risk and Hedging Strategies 0 0 0 1 0 0 3 10
Fund Flows, Manager Changes, and Performance Persistence* 0 1 2 5 3 7 11 19
Good Practice Principles in Modelling Defined Contribution Pension Plans 0 0 0 6 4 4 7 17
Hedging Annuity Risks with the Age-Period-Cohort Two-Population Gravity Model 0 0 0 1 1 2 7 17
Hedging Longevity Risk in Life Settlements Using Biomedical Research‐Backed Obligations 0 0 0 1 2 3 11 26
Identifiability in age/period mortality models 0 0 0 4 0 1 4 17
Identifiability in age/period/cohort mortality models 0 0 0 4 2 4 8 19
Identifiability, cointegration and the gravity model 0 0 0 10 2 3 10 49
Improved inference in the evaluation of mutual fund performance using panel bootstrap methods 0 0 0 18 2 2 5 115
Informed Intermediation of Longevity Exposures 0 0 0 4 4 6 10 37
International Asset Allocation with Time-Varying Investment Opportunities 0 0 0 95 1 2 6 366
Keeping Some Skin in the Game: How to Start a Capital Market in Longevity Risk Transfers 0 0 0 1 2 2 11 19
Le nouveau marché du risque de longévité 0 0 0 3 0 0 3 30
Living with Mortality: Longevity Bonds and Other Mortality-Linked Securities 0 0 3 8 1 3 16 55
Longevity Bonds: Financial Engineering, Valuation, and Hedging 0 0 0 98 0 2 11 238
Longevity Hedging 101 0 1 1 2 1 3 6 14
Longevity Risk and Capital Markets 0 0 0 0 1 2 4 13
Longevity Risk and Capital Markets 0 0 0 15 1 1 5 65
Longevity Risk and Capital Markets: The 2007-2008 Update 0 0 0 7 1 3 8 62
Longevity Risk and Capital Markets: The 2010–2011 Update 0 0 0 20 6 7 9 119
Longevity Risk and Capital Markets: The 2011–2012 Update 0 0 0 16 3 4 5 63
Longevity Risk and Capital Markets: The 2012–2013 Update 0 0 1 2 1 1 3 9
Longevity Risk and Capital Markets: The 2014–15 Update 0 0 2 4 1 3 10 38
Longevity Risk and Capital Markets: The 2016–2017 Update 0 0 0 0 1 1 4 6
Longevity Risk and Capital Markets: The 2017–2018 Update 0 0 0 2 1 1 2 9
Longevity hedge effectiveness: a decomposition 0 0 0 2 1 1 8 47
Longevity risk and capital markets: The 2008-2009 update 0 0 0 30 1 1 6 79
Longevity risk and capital markets: The 2015–16 update 0 0 3 9 9 11 30 84
Longevity risk and capital markets: The 2019-20 update 0 0 0 17 3 10 37 100
Longevity risk and capital markets: the 2021–22 update 0 0 0 1 1 2 7 11
Longevity risk and capital markets: the 2021–22 update 0 0 0 2 2 2 3 12
Longevity risk and capital markets: the 2022–2023 update 0 0 0 3 0 2 13 20
Longevity risk and the Grim Reaper's toxic tail: The survivor fan charts 0 0 1 36 2 3 10 187
Longevity: a new asset class 0 0 1 8 1 3 18 55
Long‐Term Value at Risk 0 0 1 1 1 2 19 22
MANAGING FINANCIALLY DISTRESSED PENSION PLANS IN THE INTEREST OF BENEFICIARIES 0 0 0 0 3 5 11 31
MODELLING MORTALITY FOR PENSION SCHEMES 0 0 0 5 2 3 4 25
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 1 1 1 108
Mental Time Travel and Retirement Savings 0 0 0 0 0 2 10 22
Mental time travel and the valuation of financial investments 0 0 0 2 2 3 9 15
Mental time travel and the valuation of financial investments: analysing five biases that cause pricing anomalies 0 1 1 2 1 6 12 15
Modeling Multicountry Longevity Risk With Mortality Dependence: A Lévy Subordinated Hierarchical Archimedean Copulas Approach 0 0 0 0 0 2 12 35
Modelling and management of mortality risk: a review 0 0 0 1 2 4 13 16
Modelling longevity bonds: Analysing the Swiss Re Kortis bond 0 0 0 17 1 2 12 138
Modelling the Ultimate Absurdity: A Comment on "A Quantitative Study of the Strategic Arms Race in the Missile Age." 0 0 0 8 1 1 6 73
Modelling the composition of personal sector wealth in the UK 0 0 1 57 3 3 17 212
Monetarism and the US economy: A re-evaluation of Stein's model 1960-1973 0 0 0 17 1 2 5 101
Mortality Dependence and Longevity Bond Pricing: A Dynamic Factor Copula Mortality Model With the GAS Structure 0 0 0 7 1 3 9 40
Mortality Leads and Lags 0 0 0 1 1 1 3 20
Mortality density forecasts: An analysis of six stochastic mortality models 1 3 6 119 2 7 27 354
Mortality-dependent financial risk measures 0 0 0 78 0 1 1 177
Mutual Fund Performance: Evidence from the UK 1 1 5 45 3 3 12 137
Network centrality and delegated investment performance 0 0 0 41 2 4 11 178
New Evidence on Mutual Fund Performance: A Comparison of Alternative Bootstrap Methods 0 0 0 10 2 2 10 50
Nudges and Networks: How to Use Behavioural Economics to Improve the Life Cycle Savings-Consumption Balance 0 0 0 4 2 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 7 9 20 463
On the Failure (Success) of the Markets for Longevity Risk Transfer 0 0 1 2 4 6 16 59
On the Structure and Classification of Mortality Models 1 2 4 9 4 6 12 41
Options on normal underlyings with an application to the pricing of survivor swaptions 0 0 0 2 0 0 4 26
PYRRHIC VICTORY? THE UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCE OF THE PENSIONS ACT 2004 0 0 0 14 2 3 7 123
Pension Plan Decisions 0 0 0 3 1 2 9 23
Pension Risk Management in the Enterprise Risk Management Framework 0 0 1 1 1 2 10 78
Pension schemes as options on pension fund assets: implications for pension fund management 0 0 1 144 2 2 13 331
Pensionmetrics 2: stochastic pension plan design during the distribution phase 0 0 0 184 3 4 11 587
Pensionmetrics: stochastic pension plan design and value-at-risk during the accumulation phase 1 1 1 188 5 5 12 454
Performance clustering and incentives in the UK pension fund industry 0 0 0 3 0 3 11 22
Phantoms never die: living with unreliable population data 0 0 0 1 2 3 6 22
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 2 61 1 1 9 154
Pricing Buy‐Ins and Buy‐Outs 0 0 0 0 1 1 12 34
Pricing Death: Frameworks for the Valuation and Securitization of Mortality Risk* 0 2 2 14 2 5 16 76
Projecting Mortality Rates to Extreme Old Age with the CBDX Model 0 0 0 1 2 2 7 10
Quantifying loss aversion: Evidence from a UK population survey 0 1 2 3 2 5 20 31
Reply to “Survivor Bonds: A Comment on Blake and Burrows” 0 0 0 15 0 1 11 90
Returns from active management in international equity markets: Evidence from a panel of UK pension funds 0 0 0 1 2 3 6 12
Robust Mean–Variance Hedging of Longevity Risk 0 1 1 1 1 3 9 28
Securitizing and tranching longevity exposures 0 0 0 18 1 3 9 109
Sharing Longevity Risk: Why Governments Should Issue Longevity Bonds 0 0 0 3 1 1 5 25
Smart defaults: Determining the number of default funds in a pension scheme 0 0 0 1 1 1 7 18
Spend More Today Safely: Using Behavioral Economics to Improve Retirement Expenditure Decisions With SPEEDOMETER Plans 0 0 0 4 2 5 13 67
Stochastic lifestyling: Optimal dynamic asset allocation for defined contribution pension plans 0 1 5 161 1 6 24 439
Survivor Derivatives: A Consistent Pricing Framework 0 0 0 8 0 1 4 57
Survivor Swaps 1 1 1 144 4 5 9 436
Target-driven investing: Optimal investment strategies in defined contribution pension plans under loss aversion 0 0 1 54 3 5 11 262
Target2: The Silent Bailout System That Keeps the Euro Afloat 0 0 0 1 2 8 28 34
Testing models generating time varying asset return expectations and risks: The case of UK private sector pension funds 0 0 0 4 0 2 5 30
The Birth of the Life Market 0 0 1 19 0 1 9 112
The Cost of Counterparty Risk and Collateralization in Longevity Swaps 0 0 0 3 1 2 11 33
The Cross‐Section of Asia‐Pacific Mortality Dynamics: Implications for Longevity Risk Sharing 0 0 0 1 4 4 10 33
The Demand for Cider in the United Kingdom 0 0 0 0 0 0 9 176
The Estimation of Rational Expectations Models: A Survey 0 0 1 2 3 3 7 11
The Great Game Will Never End: Why the Global Financial Crisis Is Bound to Be Repeated 0 0 0 4 2 5 16 30
The Impact of Occupation and Gender on Pensions from Defined Contribution Plans 0 0 0 55 1 2 4 171
The Myth of Methuselah and the Uncertainty of Death: The Mortality Fan Charts 0 0 0 3 1 1 7 56
The New Life Market 0 0 2 22 3 3 10 86
The Performance of UK Exchange Rate Forecasters 0 0 0 55 1 5 14 310
The demand for alcohol in the United Kingdom 0 0 0 276 1 2 15 753
The fisher hypothesis: Evidence from three high inflation economies 0 0 1 94 6 7 13 213
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 2 3 6 332
The market for lemmings: The herding behavior of pension funds 0 0 2 34 5 6 14 147
The stochastic analysis of competitive unemployment insurance premiums 0 0 0 14 0 0 4 73
The valuation of no-negative equity guarantees and equity release mortgages 0 0 0 8 1 2 9 56
UK pension fund management after Myners: The hunt for correlation begins 0 0 0 0 3 5 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 1 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 1 2 5 15
Total Journal Articles 7 24 94 4,847 233 415 1,373 18,997
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Pension Schemes and Pension Funds in the United Kingdom 0 0 0 0 4 7 19 519
Total Books 0 0 0 0 4 7 19 519


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A Non-linear Model of Portfolio Behaviour With Time-varying Expectations and Risks 0 0 0 0 1 1 4 6
Contracting Out of the State Pension System: The British Experience of Carrots and Sticks 1 1 1 17 2 2 6 92
It is all Back to Front: Critical Issues in the Design of Defined Contribution Pension Plans 0 0 0 11 0 1 5 43
Optimal Investment Strategies in Defined Contribution Pension Plans 0 0 0 0 3 4 5 8
The United Kingdom: Examining the Switch from Low Public Pensions to High-Cost Private Pensions 0 0 1 22 3 3 11 70
Total Chapters 1 1 2 50 9 11 31 219


Statistics updated 2026-05-06