Blake warns of dangerous concentration of longevity risk among insurers

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The insurance industry faces a "severe" concentration of systematic longevity risk through the market for buy-ins, buyouts and longevity swaps, according to professor David Blake.

He warned the industry could run into serious trouble if it got pricing wrong and called for the development of a capital market to create a more robust solution for longevity risk transfers. Th...

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