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Many retirees and near-retirees are enthused about the June 1 release of Purpose Investments Inc.’s Longevity Pension Fund. (For the sake of space, we’ll refer to it as LPF henceforth.) 
Taking on the challenge of providing retirement income for the vast army of people who don’t have classical defined benefit pension plans, Purpose CEO Som Seif and his team appear to have found a way to offer at least some of the secret sauce of traditional DB pensions. 
According to Purpose’s documents, retirees’ biggest fear is: “Will my money last?”
Their LPF solution involves mortality credits that improve the odds that retirees who opt in will never run out of income before running out of life. 
Somewhat reminiscent of the classic tontine structure championed by famed finance professor Moshe Milevsky (see this MoneySense article from three years ago), the idea is for less fortunate retirees who die sooner than they’d like to subsidize those gifted with longevity.
Retired actuary and retirement expert Malcolm Hamilton describes the LPF as “quite an ambitious undertaking…

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