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This is the fourth thinkpiece advocating tontines I've seen in the past month. WTF is up with that?
by bandrami 9y ago
This is the fourth thinkpiece advocating tontines I've seen in the past month. WTF is up with that?
- s_kilk 9y agoPerhaps people have been rewatching S07E22 of The Simpsons. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raging_Abe_Simpson_and_His_Grumbling_Grandson_in_%22The_Curse_of_the_Flying_Hellfish%22 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raging_Abe_Simpson_and_His_Gru...
- pilsetnieks 9y agoOr Archer: http://archer.wikia.com/wiki/The_Double_Deuce http://archer.wikia.com/wiki/The_Double_Deuce
- mysterypie 9y agoOr Barney Miller: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0519144/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0519144/
- bcoates 9y agoThe Baader-Meinhof effect combined with a growing awareness of your own mortality?
- dgacmu 9y agoUnlikely. These articles may be being spurred by some research from two years ago on modernizing tontine pensions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tontine#Tontine_pensions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tontine#Tontine_pensions
- robzyb 9y agoI come from the retirement industry, and attention to tontines has been increasing at a steady rate for a number of years. Some of the drivers of this are: 1) Ageing populations. 2) The people currently pondering retirement have significant assets because they lived through a time of significant economic growth. 3) Increasingly cash-strapped governments and their social security worries
- rbcgerard 9y agoIt makes sense when you consider that for people that have been relatively diligent about saving for retirement, they still confront two big risks: longevity (outliving their assets) and long-term care (nursing homes/assisted living). This confronts one of the issues...