Life expectancy projections fall

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Life expectancy at retirement fell over 2012 according to the latest update of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries' Continuous Mortality Investigation (CMI).

The cut in some of the CMI's core projections comes after the worse-than-expected mortality data from 2012 was incorporated into the model. The life expectancy of a man aged 65 has been cut by a...

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