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rundmc

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    Comment #44436416

    What's the use case for a tontine?

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    Comment #44007604

    Is there any way for immigrants to avoid the 27 vaccines mandated by the CDC?

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    Comment #43799091

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    Comment #43766162

    Well we will all die eventually. Perhaps it's better to say that: "With a tontine, others of the same age and sex bet that you’ll die before them".

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    Comment #43766141

    You will enjoy playing with this then: https://tontine.com/lifetime-income-calculator/#tontinator I look forward to your thoughts

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    Comment #43755112

    Great entertainment although the Simpsons did the best fictional Tontine IMHO: https://tontine.com/videos/simpsons/ That said, each Last Will & Testament creates the same scenario …

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    Comment #43754957

    In theory yes, but in practice, no such cases ever existed. A good example is that the collapse of Swiss Air created am accidental Tontine among its pension beneficiaries. Rather t…

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    Comment #43753154

    Good point. I mean retirement tontines and tontine trust funds that pay members an income for life secured against hard assets rather than ROSCA tontines which are community saving…

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    Comment #43753128

    There are versions of this 'ROSCA' Tontine in most countries and continents in the world. In the past when formed among strangers they have proven to be super susceptible to scams.…

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    Comment #43753035

    Ahead of the launch of the first Tontine company in over 100 years, we have heard similar comments from many parents and for that reason have now created the Tontine Trust Fund. Th…

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    Comment #43752938

    As the founder of the first Tontine company in over 100 years, I cannot agree more.

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    Comment #40621054

    Well insurance is in case something you don't want happens (die young) whereas a tontine is in case something you do want (live long) happens. I'd call that a major difference but …

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    Comment #38074757

    FYI, after looking at about 20 banks we opted to go with Amnis in CH which uses Currency Cloud as its backbone. Their UI is excellent and I've just noted that they have a double-si…

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    Comment #38074006

    I've been with them since the beginning and have had my suggestions included in the UI (e.g. account nicknames) but as far as I can tell they're in some sort of freefall. Something…

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    Comment #36526115

    "inverse life insurance" that's an interesting way to describe a tontine

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    Comment #35446197

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    Comment #33968522

    He essentially admitted this in recent calls so it's a 'safe' charge that the SEC used to get him arrested in Bahamas and presumably his personal assets will also now be frozen whi…

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    Comment #33868837

    Perhaps you should send your supporting evidence to the UK government because right now they are going all in on shifting the pensions industry to a Tontine style CDC model. The em…

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    Comment #33868574

    The OECD has just published it's updated Pensions Outlook which explains to governments how to implement Asset Backed Tontine style pensions to make the global pensions sector more…

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    Comment #33661418

    Mohammed, Connect with me on LinkedIN. We could be interested to include a posterity subscription for clients when we launch the US version of https://tontine.com in the coming mon…

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    Comment #33661115

    You are using a dead mans switch or another method to confirm death?

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    Comment #33609081

    Gross oversimplification: CEO - Works on the business, focuses on the big picture. COO - Works in the business, focuses on the detailed execution.

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    Comment #33415163

    Brilliant. Patents are super hard to read because they language used is usually overly verbose and unintuitive. I'm hoping that I substitute plain english words for lengthy patent …

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    Comment #32439575

    Shameless plug: https://tontine.com are hiring Haskellers to roll out their provably secure lifetime income pensions which are now endorsed by the OECD.

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    Comment #32308138

    Tontines are perfectly legal: https://tontine.com/news/tontines-can-a-pension-this-good-be...