How to Build a Modern Tontine

1. Why Tontines? Why Now?.- 2. Financial & Actuarial Background.- 3. Building a Tontine Simulation in R.- 4. Statistical Risk Management.- 5. Death Benefits, Refunds & Covenants.- 6. Goodbye LogNormal Distribution.- 7. Squeezing the Most from Mortality.- 8. Managing a Competitive Tontine Business.- 9. Solutions & Advanced Hints.- 10. Concluding Remarks: Tontine Thinking.

Moshe Arye Milevsky is a tenured professor of finance at the Schulich School of Business and a member of the Graduate Faculty in Mathematics and Statistics at York University in Toronto, Canada, where he teaches courses on wealth management, insurance and retirement planning. He has written over sixty-five peer-reviewed articles, and this is his 17th published book. His prior work on tontines, King William's Tontine: Why the Retirement Annuity of the Future Should Resemble Its Past, was awarded the Kulp-Wright Book Award from the American Risk and Insurance Association. He is also the author of Retirement Income Recipes in R: From Ruin Probabilities to Intelligent Drawdowns (Springer 2020), which provides recipe-like guidance to retirement income practitioners in R programming. Professor Milevsky is an associate editor of Insurance: Mathematics & Economics, as well as The Journal of Pension Economics & Finance. He is also a fellow of the Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences, where he was previously a member of the board of directors and active in their scientific and commercial activities.



In addition to his scholarly work Professor Milevsky is a well-known industry consultant, keynote speaker and fin-tech entrepreneur, with a number of U.S. patents. He was named by Investment Advisor Magazine as one of the 35 most influential people in the U.S. financial advisory business during the last 35 years and received a lifetime achievement award from the Retirement Income Industry Association. He recently joined forces with Guardian Capital Group (Canada) to help implement many of the ideas contained in this book.