Swiss Re calls for a fresh industry approach to mortality calculations

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Mortality assumption calculations need a radical overhaul to give schemes and capital markets a better understanding of the factors that affect them, a report argues.

The report by Swiss Re, A window into the future: Understanding and predicting longevity, published today, suggested current models - blended or stochastic - made insufficient use of information av...

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