Enhancing Annuities with Equity David Blake, Andrew Cairns and Kevin Dowd May 2001 We know that the life annuity is the only financial contract in existence that provides retirement income security for however long a pen

Source URL: www.pensions-institute.org

Professor David Blake Director Pensions Institute Birkbeck College University of London 7-15 Gresse St

Source URL: www.pensions-institute.org

• Money
• Finance
• Economy
• Pensions in the United Kingdom
• Financial services
• Pensions
• Employment compensation
• Personal finance
• Retirement
• Defined benefit pension plan
• Stakeholder pension scheme
• Kevin Dowd

Turning pension plans into pension planes: What investment strategy designers of defined contribution pension plans can learn from commercial aircraft designers David Blake, Andrew Cairns and Kevin Dowd

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Resources/Learning More Internet Technical and Industry Information Dowd, Kevin Getting Connected: The Internet at 56k and Up O’Reilly and Associates, 1996 A very good (but very technical) primer on the world of leased

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• Scripting languages
• Cross-platform software
• Perl
• JavaScript
• Form
• CGI.pm
• CPAN
• XML
• Computing
• Software engineering
• Computer programming

Pensionmetrics 2: Stochastic pension plan design during the distribution phase By David Blake, Andrew J. G. Cairns, and Kevin Dowd* Revised, March 2003

Source URL: eprints.lse.ac.uk

• Financial services
• Insurance
• Retirement
• Pensions in the United Kingdom
• Life annuity
• Annuity
• Mortality drag
• Pension
• Personal pension scheme
• Financial economics
• Investment
• Economics

BITCOIN THE FLIPSIDE OF MONEY In a new IEA publication, New Private Monies – a bit-part player, author KEVIN DOWD examines the

Source URL: www.iea.org.uk

• Software
• Electronic commerce
• Bitcoin
• Peer-to-peer computing
• Currency
• Computer law
• Electronic money
• Crypto-anarchism
• Silk Road
• Financial cryptography
• Computing
• Payment systems

Moral Hazard and the Financial Crisis Kevin Dowd There is no denying that the current financial crisis has delivered a major seismic shock to the policy landscape. In country after country, we see governments panicked in

Source URL: object.cato.org

• Actuarial science
• United States housing bubble
• Mortgage-backed security
• Financial services
• Structured finance
• Collateralized debt obligation
• Moral hazard
• Risk
• Late-2000s financial crisis
• Financial economics
• Economics
• Finance

How Unlucky is 25-Sigma? By Kevin Dowd, John Cotter, Chris Humphrey and Margaret Woods♣

Source URL: arxiv.org

• Normal distribution
• Probability theory
• Standard deviation
• Mode
• Probability
• 68-95-99.7 rule
• Statistics
• Summary statistics
• Data analysis