We are changing the way the world thinks about pensions
Tontine Trust is a fintech founded on the principle that after working and saving for several decades that you should now be able to relax and enjoy your retirement without the fear of running out of money in later years.
We believe that retirement income solutions should be safe, sustainable, easy to understand and should offer great value for money.
Unlike traditional lifetime income providers, we want to profit with not from our members which is why our fees are so low.
We take pride in being at the forefront of driving innovation across the global retirement industry for the benefit of the people that matter: you the savers.
The Team
Dean McClelland
Founder/CEO
Kevin Maas
Head of Regulatory Affairs
Ian McKnight
Chief Investment Officer
Bryan St.John
Head of Product
Natalie Straight
Chief Marketing Officer
Jeremy Barisch-Rooney
Head of Engineering
Guo Liang Oon
Senior Haskell Developer
Milosh Spasovski, BSC
Head of Frontend Development
Stefan Tasevski
Head of Mobile Engineering
Bertan Gueler, CFA
Head of Quantitative Engineering
Lari Markovski
UX/UI Designer
Samir Ajdini
Front End Web Developer
Lorenzo di Monad
The world's 1st Robo-Actuary statically typed
Our Advisors and Ambassadors
Prof. Hans Van Meerten
European Pensions Expert, EIOPA Panel Member, PEPP Specialist
Jorik Van Zanden LLM
Pan-European Pensions Expert
Suzana Md Samsudi
Specialist in Islamic Retirement Solutions
Norbert Gehrke
Former AIG Japan Strategist, ex Goldman MD, Asia Region Advisor
Michael Edelson
Long term Director of Man Utd FC, VC/Angel & Philanthropist
Jörg Platzer
Economist, Director of Deutsche DLT Assoc., Tontines Expert
Jon Matonis
Ex-VISA & CEO of Hushmail, Founder of the Bitcoin Foundation
Jumaatun Azmi
Founder of the World Halal Forum
What do financial experts generally think about tontines?
"Canada proposes a Tontine for pensions!"
In Canada we have seven major pension stakeholders calling for longevity risk pooling and in the most recent budget the Canadian government has actually proposed to create a Tontine.
David John
Senior strategic policy advisor AARP Public Policy Institute
Except where stated, there is no suggestion that the above experts are in any way affiliated with, or specifically endorsing, either Tontine Trust or the TontineIRA™.
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Who we work with
About Tontine Trust
Tontine Trust is a financial technology company that works with banking & trust partners to provide consumer-oriented lifetime income products. We are incorporated in Florida with our headquarters in Ireland.
Our business model is based upon partnering with banks & trusts to provide innovative, fair and sustainable lifetime incomes to consumers which improve their mental as well as financial health whilst solving their #1 financial need.
Tontine Trust Advisors, LLC
88953, 111 NE 1st St, 8th Floor, Miami, FL, Miami-Dade, US, 33132
What the world says about us
Raoul Pal
I love the idea of Tontines. They solve so many problems for retirees. These guys are bringing them back, super interesting.
Olivia S. Mitchell
A tontine is an investment pool managed in an actuarially fair way, according to a plan for distributing fully-funded payouts to investors. There are two key differences between a tontine and an ordinary investment. First, tontine investments are generally irrevocable. Second, account balances are not transferred to a member’s beneficiaries upon death. Instead, remaining assets are equitably apportioned among the pool’s surviving participants. Accordingly, monies forfeited by those who die increase the returns to those who survive.
These extra returns are referred to as “mortality credits.” In this way, tontines allow members to collect lifetime income by collectively self-pooling longevity risk among themselves. This obviates the need for (and cost of) an insurer as guarantor. Tontines are not insurance, though they can deliver lifetime income similar to payout annuities and pensions. Tontines simply cut out the middleman.
Gary S. Mettler
First rate! I'm so excited about your effort I can barely stand it!
At 55, my biggest concern is the potential burden on my kids if I'm unable to work and an unexpected illness strikes. The Tontine-based pension product deals with this issue with a steady stream of funds for life to ensure the bills are always getting paid.
I have to agree that most people do worry and think about their retirement in fear. It would be lovely to see this change. The world could surely become a happier, more exciting place.
Jonathan Chevreau
Tontines are easier to administer, cleaner and less capital-intensive and can be expected to generate rising payment streams over time, at least for those who live long enough to benefit from the superior mortality credits they provide. In a classical tontine, payments are initially quite low – at best comparable to the risk-free rate on bonds... But as retirees die, tontines become more attractive for those who survive. The last few survivors may receive 10 times more than they put into the scheme.
Jason Maggard
This is brilliant. I'm 50 and was in retirement planning a number of years back. All retirees with any amount of money FEAR outliving their money. So they rarely enjoy spending in retirement without guilt. So they scrimp and die someday with 10%-80% of their money left over. How great to know each year you last in retirement your standard of living goes up! Spend Enjoy More Is Coming Next Month. Brilliant!
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Tontine Trust is a fintech enabling consumer-friendly lifetime income retirement products such as the state of the art TontineIRA™ via banks, chartered trust companies and credit unions (each a ‘Bank’).
Banking, trustee and fiduciary services in the US are provided by partner Banks which are regulated in the US to act as fiduciaries on behalf of US Tontine IRA™ accountholders (‘members’).
Tontine Trust provides and operates the TontineIRA™ administration and record-keeping platform on behalf of and under the supervision of the Banks.
Tontine Trust is not a Bank or a trust company and does not provide banking & fiduciary services other than certain administrative services in a ministerial capacity as the Trust Advisors to the Tontine IRA™s.
No information on this website or the platforms provided by Tontine Trust should be taken as constituting individual advice to you. The information is informational and of general guidance only. Tontine Trust does not provide investment management services, financial advice, banking or fiduciary services.
The choices you make or do not make around the investment of your retirement account are your own responsibility. Neither Tontine Trust nor the Banks can be held responsible for any financial loss arising from your retirement choices or lack of them.
The amounts and duration of the lifetime income from the Tontine IRA™ are indicative only. By design, neither the amounts nor the duration of retirement income payments from a tontine plan are fixed or guaranteed.
Based upon many years of research and development, the TontineIRA™ platform displays reasonable best estimates of what level of income you can expect to receive over the course of your lifetime. These estimates are constantly reviewed (sometimes nightly) to incorporate any effects on expected incomes caused by changes in interest rates, investment returns, life expectancy and/or the actual mortality experience of members sharing the same tontine.
The Banks we work with are required to manage US trust assets in accordance with the Uniform Prudent Investor Act.
To ensure maximum security of capital and income for members, the Tontine IRA™ assets will be invested by the Banks in a basket of FDIC insured deposits such that each up Tontine IRA™ account can obtain FDIC coverage up to approximately $10m of assets per member.
Note that while the deposits made on behalf of the Tontine IRA™s are FDIC insured, the IRA accounts themselves are not a deposit or other obligation of, or guaranteed by a Bank or state chartered trust company and are not directly insured by the FDIC. Therefore they should be considered as being subject to investment risks, including a possible loss on the principal amount invested, for example when a member passes away before they have received total income in excess of their original contribution to the TontineIRA™.