Essays about: "longevity risk"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 20 essays containing the words longevity risk.

  1. 6. Servitized industrial machinery as a new real asset for institutional investors

    University essay from KTH/Skolan för industriell teknik och management (ITM)

    Author : Bryan Menezes; [2021]
    Keywords : Servitization; Institutional investing; Industrial machinery; Real assets; Infrastructure; Pension funds; Industrials; Tjänstefiering; Institutionell investering; Industriella maskiner; Realtillgångar; Infrastruktur; Pensionsfonder; Industriföretag;

    Abstract : The increased penetration of servitization is an ongoing trend within the industrial machinery space. This typically means that industrial machinery manufactures themselves retain ownership of the machinery they manufacture whilst also taking over maintenance operations. Essentially, offering customers a netresult. READ MORE

  3. 7. Cohabitation and mortality across the life course

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Sociologiska institutionen

    Author : Jesper Lindmarker; [2021]
    Keywords : Demography; Partnership status; Mortality differences; Sweden; Life Course; Hazard regression;

    Abstract : The literature on marriage status and mortality have shown that the married individuals enjoy longer lives than their non-married counterparts. The few studies that included cohabitation have found cohabitants to have a longevity between the married and other non-married groups. READ MORE

  4. 8. 'Belonging' as a concept in placemaking: Exploring perceptions in Ikaria, Greece : A study of belonging in the elderly in the Greek Blue Zone of Ikaria

    University essay from KTH/Urbana och regionala studier

    Author : Ellen Zouras; [2020]
    Keywords : longest living; longevity; belongingness; geographical belonging; Icaria; Christos Rachon; Raches;

    Abstract : Globally, increased length-of-life trends parallel the rise in reported levels of loneliness. Social connectedness is associated with a 50% reduced risk of premature mortality, and research has shown there is a moderately strong association between people who are lonely and people who have an unmet desire to belong. READ MORE

  5. 9. Education-Modern Guns : A qualitative study about role of educational processes on peace consolidation in BiH

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för samhällsstudier (SS)

    Author : Fata Muminovic; [2019]
    Keywords : segregation; educational system; peace; conflict; Bosnia and Herzegovina;

    Abstract : This research examines the role of five educational processes; curriculum, language, religion, culture, history, and geography and teachers, teacher education and teaching methods, on the perception of students of other constitutive people in Bosnia and Herzegovina and if it might have an impact on the longevity of the peace within the state. The importance of this research lays in the fact that BiH has experienced ethnic conflict in recent history which affected education and created ethnic division in the educational system. READ MORE

  6. 10. Putting the power in plants : using green infrastructure to reduce nonpoint source pollution in aquatic ecosystems in the urban center of Dublin

    University essay from Lunds universitet/LUCSUS

    Author : Tessa Mazar; [2018]
    Keywords : green infrastructure; Dublin; non-point source pollution; urban run-off; sustainability science; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Coastal ecosystems are some of the most productive, and most at risk, in the world. These ecosystems are at risk due to the high levels of pollution entering the system. Most of this pollution comes from either run off or atmospheric deposition. READ MORE