How proud I am to know this Stuart McDonald – I’m keeping good company!

Stuart McDonald has done so much for people other than experts to get to grips with longevity. I cannot admit to understanding longevity charts, even when Stuart resents them but I do my best to share what comes to me when he speaks to us on social media.

I had to do some cutting and pasting to get to the nuggets! Here’s Stuart exploded..

Well even with a first blast I could not get to conclusive evidence , so I blasted again to get to the charts

And here I find myself at the end of cul de sac which will be a fascinating place for actuaries but leaves me unable to make any sense.

I will do what I did right through the COVID-19 pandemic, when Stuart and his colleagues published every week on this blog and allow Stuart to make sense of what is beyond me!

Ruth Gilbert, not for the firs time, is the door opener for Stuart’s good sense

I am (64) at Pensioner Age and take comfort from Stuart’s comment but I am less happy for my family who are (apart from my mother) all younger than me.

How should my generation be reacting to Stuart’s comment to Ruth’s question? Should I be happy to be home and dry – to be almost out of “working age” or should I be shouting out to make life fairer for children?

I want the CMI to speak to me and not just to actuaries. I want Stuart to speak in his eloquent way to us all about what is happening and I want to understand why I should be feeling more comfortable in changes in longevity than my son.

If any of the brilliant people who sit studying these papers and updates at the end of my cul-de-suc , chose to explain, you would make my weekend and help my actuarial team get the numbers right for CDC!

Stuart