This paper proposes a framework to evaluate the impact of longevity-linked securities on the risk-return trade-off for traditional portfolios. Generalized unexpected raise in life expectancy is a source of aggregate risk in the insurance sector balance sheets. Longevity-linked securities are a...

This article illustrates how the information component determining long-horizon US stock market returns can be related to a demographic variable, MY the ratio of middle-aged to young adults. In fact, MY can be seen as the major determinants of a slowly evolving time-varying mean of the...