Moshe A. Milevsky, Ph.D. is a tenured finance professor at the Schulich School of Business at York University (www.yorku.ca) in Toronto, Canada, and the executive director of the nonprofit IFID Centre (www.ifid.ca). He is also the president and CEO of The QWeMA Group (www.qwema.ca), a software company that develops intellectual property and numerical algorithms for the financial services industry. He also writes a monthly column for Research Magazine that is read by financial advisors and planners in North America.
Moshe is a well-known public speaker and has delivered keynote lectures and seminars in Europe, South America, the Far East, and the UK. In June 2009, he was a main platform speaker for MDRT's annual meeting. He has consulted for global insurance companies and pension funds including the Florida State Board of Administration's (FSBA) retirement plan. He is currently a member of a variety of corporate advisory councils. To date he has published seven books, more than 50 peer-reviewed research papers, and more than 100 personal finance articles on the topic of insurance, investments, pensions, retirement, and annuities.
Moshe received two National Magazine (Canada) awards in 2003 for his popular-press writing and received a Graham and Dodd scroll award from the CFA Institute for a 2006 research article in the Financial Analysts Journal. In the summer of 2002, he was elected a Fellow of the Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences, and in September 2008, he was given a lifetime achievement award from the Retirement Income Industry Association (RIIA). In May 2009, he was named to Investment Advisor magazine's IA25 list of most influential people in the financial advisory business.
Moshe's previous book Are You a Stock or a Bond? Create Your Own Pension Plan for a Secure Financial Future was published by FT Press in September 2008 and is available in fine bookstores everywhere.