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In a previous blog I demonstrated that there was a statistically significant relationship between pension size and mortality.  In a subsequent blog I looked at the improvements in model fit from treating pension size as a factor, but concluded that this was only a partial solution.  In practice actuaries would prefer to avoid the discretisation error that com

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Pension size as a factor

In a previous blog I showed that there was often a statistically significant link between pension size and mortality.  It is clearly necessary to account for such a link in an actuarial mortality model, not least because people with larger pensions account for a disproportionate share of portfolio risk.
Written by: Stephen RichardsTags: Filter information matrix by tag: discretisation error