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51% of Americans hold life insurance and 1.3% surrender their policies each year. What the secondary market pays versus a carrier’s cash surrender value, and how policyholders evaluate the difference.

U.S. life expectancy reached 79.0 in 2024 and 59% of retirees leave work earlier than planned. What a longer life changes in withdrawal rates, annuities and long-term care planning.

Jay Jackson Chairman & CEO Dr. Jay Olshansky joined us at Investor Day to talk about something most people have never heard of — the Gompertz Law of Mortality. It’s a formula from 1825 that describes how human risk of death increases over time, with the basic premise...

Abacus’ Chief Investment Officer Elena Plesco opened her Investor Day remarks with a question that seemed simple: What is Amazon’s largest revenue-generating business? Most people in the room said AWS, and as we’ve found, most people think that. But it’s not true....

Jay Jackson Chairman & CEO Abacus reported Q2 results this week and the momentum continued: revenue hit $73 million, up 30% year-over-year; adjusted net income came in at $27.1 million, exceeding our guidance; and adjusted EBITDA margins held above 54% even as we...

August is Pension Protection Month, a reminder that protecting a pension plan begins with protecting the quality of the data behind it. While Annual Funding Notices (AFNs) are distributed after the close of the plan year, the work to ensure accurate reporting starts...

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...

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...

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...