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The Tontine Coffee-House (2018)

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csense ◴[] No.43752696[source]
With regular life insurance, you bet you'll die.

With a tontine, you bet you'll live.

The latter seems much more sensible to me.

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rundmc ◴[] No.43752938[source]
As the founder of the first Tontine company in over 100 years, I cannot agree more.
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Biganon ◴[] No.43752992[source]
Surely you mean the first tontine out of Africa ?...
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1. rundmc ◴[] No.43753154[source]
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 savings vehicles designed for short term borrowing between members.