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Tontine is the name of an early system for raising capital in which individuals pay into a common pool of money; they receive dividends based on their share of returns from investments made with the pooled money. As members of the group died, they were not replaced with new investors so the proceeds were divided among fewer and fewer members. The surviving investors quite literally profited from the deaths of people they knew—a feature that many considered macabre. Even in their heyday, tontines were regarded as somewhat off-color.
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Tontine
it is a investment plan for raising capital, devised in the 17th century and relatively widespread in the 18th & 19th centuries.
it combines features of a group annuity and a lottery.
Each subscriber pays an agreed sum into the fund, and thereafter receives an annuity.
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