Right now LCP’s podcasts are a distance ahead of what else is worth listening to (a lot). The problem is getting listened to for all the work that Stuart and others put into their work. Which is why I hope some of my blogs jog people into signing up to get feeds to some of these pods – ooh – a bit laboured – but I hope you know what I mean!
Here is the podcast..
Here is the magnificent chart that Stuart McDonald should have hanging in Tate Modern
and here is the team who put all this together.
You’ll have to link in to these guys using your own powers of linkage!
While life expectancy has been an important issue for pension arrangements, it has now become a rather ephemeral issue of interest solely to actuaries. The significance for both DB pensions schemes (except for super super mature closed scheme) and also the pricing of annuities has diminished almost exponentially with the rise in interest rates from the totally irrational significance during the negative gilt yield period.
This does not mean that personally we are not fascinated by the dynamics and reasons for the shifts in life expectancy and be concerned that Governments do not seem to be deliberately trying to limit further improvements in life expectancy to limit the tax burden of an ageing population. I am not particularly thinking of the UK here.