The long and short of longevity

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PensionsFirst is set to offer UK pension funds a set of bonds aimed at immunising them from longevity as well as market and inflation risk. It claims it can do all of this cheaper than the bulk annuity buyout firms currently hunting the same schemes. Alex Beveridge talks to Timothy Lyons

Alex Beveridge: What first got you interested in developing a solution to the problem of longevity for pension funds? Timothy Lyons: We started looking at this about two years ago and looked at t...

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