In 2016, BlackRock launched the BlackRock Retirement Institute, a global thought-leadership platform that extends the firm’s industry-leading efforts to help clients and the broader community to make better decisions about retirement and longevity. Through BRI, BlackRock sought the views of experts—inside and outside the financial services sector— to create and amplify the best thinking on retirement…

In October 2015, the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Ageing produced a white paper titled, ‘How 21st-Century Longevity Can Create Markets and Drive Economic Growth’, which underpins that business is on the brink of a new, innovative, and imperative opportunity that also has the potential to play a central role in transforming global…