Death goes real-time: Deutsche Borse has supposedly set up live feeds from undertakers to find out what age people are when they die:

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/6bf8f1a2-f1fa-11dc-9b45-0000779fd2ac.html

Obviously the issue of longevity hedging is important for pension fund management, but I just hope that traders don’t get into manipulating the market, it could get ugly…