Moshe A. Milevsky is a leading authority on the intersection of wealth management, financial mathematics and insurance. As a tenured professor in a business school, he has one foot planted squarely in the ivory tower and the other in the commercial world, with a unique communication style and talent for explaining complex ideas clearly and with humor.
Moshe A. Milevsky is a finance professor at the Schulich School of Business at York University in Toronto. He is also a member of the graduate faculty in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics and Managing Director of PiLECo.
Moshe A. Milevsky has published 15 books (translated into 6 languages) and over sixty peer-reviewed scholarly papers in addition to hundreds of popular articles and blog pieces. In addition to being an award-winning author, he is a fintech entrepreneur with a number of U.S. patents and computational innovations in the retirement income space. 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 he received a lifetime achievement award from the Retirement Income Industry Association.
His current research interests revolve around the area of financial history and the evolution of (retirement) insurance & annuity products over the centuries.
Moshe A. Milevsky is the author of several books, including the popular Are You a Stock or a Bond, and The 7 Most Important Equations for Your Retirement and the more advanced The Calculus of Retirement Income, which summarizes much of the research that Milevsky has done on quantitative retirement income planning. His recent books include King William's Tontine: Why the Retirement Annuity of the Future Should Resemble Its Past (Cambridge 2015) and The Day the King Defaulted: Financial Lessons from the Stop of the Exchequer in 1672.