Longevity risk: 'it's the demographics stupid'

The development of a capital market for longevity risk would ease the debt burden on future generations, Natasha Browne hears

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The development of a capital market for longevity risk would ease the debt burden on future generations, Natasha Browne hears

At a glance Leading academic professor David Blake says insurers face "severe" concentration of longevity risk  Experts say the reinsurance market uses this risk as a natural hedge against i...

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