Description: These are the Discussant Comments by Douglas W. Andrews for the Retirement Strategies 2B Session of the January 13-15, 2020 Living to 100 Symposium in Orlando, Florida.

Description: Papers: Does Living in a Retirement Village Extend Life Expectancy? The case of Whiteley Village in the UK. – Les Mayhew, Ben Rickayzen and David Smith, Ph.D. – City University, London Health and Social Care Analysis Regarding the State of Canadian Women Living in the Alone Stage of Retirement – Douglas Andrews, FSA, FCIA, Ph.D.; Lori Curtis, Ph.D. – University of Waterloo

Description: This is the How Amending Old Age Security Would improve the State of Canadian Women Living in the Alone Stage of Retirement paper authored by Lori J. Curtis and Douglas W. Andrews for Session 5B of the January 13-15, 2020 Living to 100 Symposium in Orlando, Florida.

Description: Papers: Retirement Strategy Metrics – Mark Shemtob, FSA, MAAA, EA, MSPA, FCA A Review of the Demography of Retirement in the United States – Jacob S. Siegel

Description: This is the Health and Social Care Analysis Regarding the State of Canadian Women Living in the Alone Stage of Retirement paper authored by Douglas W. Andrews and Lori Curtis for Session 4B of the January 13-15, 2020 Living to 100 Symposium in Orlando, Florida.

Description: Various studies suggest that the baby boomers have not saved sufficiently to provide for their retirement (e.g., CIA 2007). It is anticipated that the baby boomers will have to liquidate some or all of their assets to supplement their retirement income. This paper estimates the likely size of the asset liquidation and estimates the impact that an asset liquidation of such magnitude may have on asset prices.

Description: A report providing a high-level review of the literature that addresses the relationship between bond prices/yields and demographic variables, a deep dive into one of the papers, and empirical analysis starting with the methodology of that paper and extending to the stability of the relationship over time, to longer-dated bonds, and to the sovereign bonds of various countries