Description: This paper provides some background about demography, health and retirement summarizes how current pension laws influence the design of pension plans and the timing of retirement and looks at the optimal retirement age from the perspective of employers, government and workers.

Description: Presented at the Living to 100 Symposium, January 2011. This paper looks at issues with regard to long life and managing risk by individuals. It focuses on how structuring of payouts interacts with issues related to long life, and also discusses cash benefits and health-related benefits.

Description: Graphs mortality experience over the prior 15 years, show possible trends over the prior 80 years, discusses the impact on liabilities and funding of the New York public retirement system based on projections of life expectancy, and discusses the possible factors that have affected mortality.

Description: This paper aims to present a systematic procedure for valuing group self annuitization GSA payouts in the presence of changing mortality. Presented at Managing Retirement Assets Symposium

Description: Transcript of General Session 1:Implications of Longer Life Spans: What Does This All Mean to Us?

Description: Presented at Living to 100 and Beyond symposium in January 2002. Discusses the impact of longer life spans on families, business, society, and programs to help support the elderly.

Description: In this paper, we derive three important longevity Greeks on the basis of an extended version of the Lee-Carter model that incorporates stochastic volatility.

Description: We propose an age-shift model to modify the LC model and deal with the problem of parameters. The proposed method attains smaller estimation errors with respect to mean absolute percentage error or mean square error. We also apply the proposed age-shift model to the mortality rates of these four countries to evaluate the longevity risk in annuity products by measuring life expectancy.

Description: This is the transcript for Session 5B : What is Different Today for Post-retirement Financial Planning? from the 2017 Living to 100 Symposium in Orlando.

Description: This is the session transcript from Session 6A: Mortality Improvement Approaches from the January 4-6, 2017 Living to 100 Symposium in Orlando.