White paper

image new white paperThe white paper 'Longevity and Pensions - protecting company pensions against longevity risk' focuses on the impact of increasing longevity and declining fertility on company-sponsored defined benefit plans, and discusses possible solutions.

Reducing pension risks

AEGON Global Pensions has developed pension derisking solutions for companies looking to control or remove investment risk, interest rate risk, inflation risk and longevity risks.

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What is in the white paper 'Longevity and Pensions - protecting company pensions against longevity risk'

  • Different sources of pension plan risk
  • How to assess longevity risk
  • How to protect against longevity risk
  • Pricing of protection against longevity risk
  • Seven guidelines on implementing longevity swaps

High turnout for webinar on 24 May 2011

On 24 May 2011, AEGON Global Pensions organised a one-hour briefing ('webinar') for people who requested the white paper 'Longevity and Pensions - protecting company pensions against longevity risk'. Please click here for a review.

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AEGON Quotes

  • 'The pension buy-in enabled us to derisk our pension fund at the right moment and price. Hero can now provide attractive benefits at a defined cost; and my colleagues and I are once more able to focus fully on our business!', Jop Peek, CIO at Hero
  • ‘There are 4 people of working age for every pensioner now. In 2050, there will be just two people of working age for every pensioner’, OECD, 2010
  • 'We wanted to make sure that TNT had to make additional payments into the plan in hard times, but we also wanted to ensure that our participants' pensions would still be able to grow in better times', Huub Popping, TNT Pension Fund
  • ‘As public pensions are reduced through reforms, occupational and private pensions and other savings will need to fill the gap’, OECD, Pensions at a glance 2011
  • European pension systems are under pressure from demographic ageing. From 2012, the working age population in Europe will begin to shrink, so the challenge is very much upon us’, European Commission, 2010