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Club Vita US LLC has posted a new online tool that you might actually use to learn about a new pension plan administration data tool— after you use it to find out what Club Vita actuaries think about your life expectancy.
The company's Club Vita U.S. longevity map is an interactive map that gives rough life expectancy estimates for men and women aged 65, broken down by "census block group." A census block group is a neighborhood.
Club Vita US is a new, Hoboken, New Jersey-based offshoot of a U.K. longevity data analysis firm.
The firm's parent has been helping pension plan professionals in the United Kingdom and Canada analyze how long plan participants might live.
Pension plan managers may be able to use that information to fine-tune reserving and shape pension risk transfer deals.
Managers of blocks of individual annuity, long-term care insurance and long-term disability insurance analysis go through similar longevity risk analysis processes, starting with different sets of mortality data and assumptions.
Club Vita is now offering similar services in the United States.
Club Vita actuaries base their life expectancy estimates for a given geographic area on government survey data, pension plan participants' home addresses, the amount of monthly pension benefits participants are receiving, and the mix of blue-collar and white-collar pension plan participants in the area.
Club Vita developed the new U.S. life expectancy map to promote the firm's work in the United States.
