CMI 'needs to zero weight' 2021 mortality data

‘Valuable’ data exists but this will need to be captured as the pandemic eases off

James Phillips
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Aon actuary and partner Tim Gordon
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Aon actuary and partner Tim Gordon

Life expectancy models, including the Continuous Mortality Investigation (CMI) tables, will need to exclude 2021 death data due to the Covid-19 pandemic, experts have said.

The unusual data from the "once in a century" event will need to be zero-weighted as it was for the 2020 models in order to not embed the experience into future liability projections. Speaking a...

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