Moshe Arye Milevsky is a professor of finance at the

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, and a member of the Graduate Faculty in the Department of Mathematics & Statistics, in Toronto, Canada, where he has been based and teaching for over 25 years. He earned a B.A. in mathematics and physics from

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in 1990, an M.A. in mathematics and statistics from York University in 1992 and a Ph.D. in business finance from York University in 1996. His area of expertise is in mathematical

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, pensions, insurance, actuarial science and history of financial products. He has done extensive research on

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pricing, quantitative personal financial planning (focusing on investment strategies for retiring individuals), insurance derivatives, pensions, annuities, tontines and stochastic mortality models. He is also the Executive Director of the Individual Finance and Insurance Decisions Centre (IFID), a non-profit corporation dedicated to generating advanced research at the intersection of wealth management, personal finance, and insurance. For his contributions to the

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and to the Canadian mathematical community, Moshe was inducted as a Fields Institute Fellow in 2002. Moshe A. Milevsky is the author of 17 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''.

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