Tag Archives: Tontine
“A different view on CDC” – something new from the Tontine Crew?
The following pension was produced yesterday by Russ Oxley, part of the “Tontine crew” as they’re known in my brain! See what you think of his approach to CDC and whether CDC can adapt as he wants it to. Russ … Continue reading
Holidays for the have it and want its. A pension special!
The reality of August is played out on beaches not boardrooms. People are at work doing the tough thing which is to keeping the show on the road while the deal-makers are sunning it in villas abroad or perhaps hosting … Continue reading
An odd thing happening in America with “Tontine” pensions.
Last Friday the USA , under Trump made it clear that things were changing Privately quoted assets, even Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies on the way but most extraordinary (vi) income strategies including longevity risk-sharing pools. In Britain we’d interpret this … Continue reading
All you wanted to know about the modern tontine
In America, the word “tontine” is not dirty, in the UK it is. What the Americans call tontines , we could call “non-guaranteed annuities” or just “CDC funds”. A CDC fund works in the same way as a defined benefit … Continue reading
Dead pools and blind allies; capital will always stand behind private pensions
I riffed on Tontines here a dozen years ago https://t.co/HRWCp4zNB8 From 2010 my @ISRS_UCL action research has covered mutual legal designs of modern scalable risk, cost, surplus & production sharing agreements. Trust Law is very far from modern: we can … Continue reading
Pensions not tontines please!
If there is one word that we could do without right now – it is Tontine. The idea has become associated with greed on the one hand. And of profiting from other’s death on the other Yet it is … Continue reading
Why would management fees be any cheaper for #cdc than DC?
It’s a question posed by John Ralfe- to me – on twitter. It’s a serious question and one that Jeremy Cooper, doyen of the Australian Super system is clearly interested in too. The question cannot be simply answered with reference … Continue reading