Everyone Gets the Same Weather Forecast

Everyone Gets the Same Weather Forecast

Jay Jackson Chairman & CEO In my continued quest to dispel financial planning myths, I’ve been focusing recently on something most people don’t realize: the mortality tables that run the entire financial services industry are fundamentally broken. Every major...
Reflections from Investor Day: The Market Maker of Time

Reflections from Investor Day: The Market Maker of Time

Jay Jackson Chairman & CEO We held our Investor Day at the New York Stock Exchange last week. The venue was fitting—its history has been built on making capital markets efficient at scale. And that’s exactly what we’re building when it comes to lifespan-based...
The Hidden Cost of Unreported Mortalities

The Hidden Cost of Unreported Mortalities

A single missed mortality event can lead to months, or even years, of improper payments. While most pension plans, retirement systems, and multi-employer union benefit funds have controls in place, delayed mortality identification remains one of the most persistent...
When Infrastructure Solves a Problem Nobody Talks About

When Infrastructure Solves a Problem Nobody Talks About

Jay Jackson Chairman & CEO We announced this week that Abacus is tokenizing secondary life insurance assets. And I want to be clear about what that means, because the word “tokenizing” carries baggage. So let me explain what we’re actually doing and why it...
The Longevity Indicators You Can Control

The Longevity Indicators You Can Control

Jay Jackson Chairman & CEO If you’ve been following along for awhile, you know that I pay a lot of attention to the hard truths behind longevity – that very tall people rarely live past 100, that genetics do matter, and that we should be optimizing for longer...