In September 2026, Pacific Life Re announced the appointment of Mei Sum Chan as Head of Medical Analytics, succeeding Ian Collins on his retirement. The 25 September report says Collins had built and led the function and that Chan had most recently advised research and development and global divisions on health and statistics. The reinsurer describes the team’s purpose as understanding emerging health and mortality trends, supporting assumption development

The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in February 2019 released a new paper, titled “Trends in life expectancy in EU and other OECD countries” that reports on trends in life expectancy in the 28 EU countries and some other high-income OECD countries, and examines potential explanations for the slowdown in improvements in recent years. The slowing of improvements, which has been measured since 2011, has been greatest