MAP20130031422Biffis, EnricoInformed intermediation of longevity exposures / Enrico Biffis, David BlakeSumario: We examine pension buyout transactions and longevity risk securitization in a common framework, emphasizing the role played by asymmetries in capital requirements and mortality forecasting technology. The results are used to develop a coherent model of intermediation of longevity exposures, between defined benefit pension plans and capital market investors, through insurers operating in the pension buyout market. We derive several predictions consistent with the recent empirical evidence on pension buyouts and offer insights on the role of buyout firms and regulation in the emerging market for longevity-linked securities. A multiperiod version of the model is used to explore the effects of longevity risk securitization on the capacity of the pension buyout marketEn: The Journal of risk and insurance. - Nueva York : The American Risk and Insurance Association, 1964- = ISSN 0022-4367. - 02/09/2013 Volumen 80 Número 3 - septiembre 2013 I. Título.
