Milevsky’s ‘The 7 Most Important Equations’

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  Milevsky: What Is Your Financial Legacy – Today?

  By Moshe A. Milevsky  |  May 24, 2012

  In the beginning, life insurance was perceived as just another gamble, or a game of chance, involving three parties.

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  Milevsky’s ‘7 Most Important Equations’ on Retirement Offers 7 Crucial Ideas for Advisors

  By Gil Weinreich, AdvisorOne  |  May 1, 2012

  Moshe Milevsky, whose new book will be released in June, has become a rock star on the advisor lecture circuit. Why?

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  Milevsky: How Much in Risky Stocks vs. Safe Cash?

  By Moshe A. Milevsky  |  April 25, 2012

  From a purely mathematical point of view, the “stocks are safer over long periods of time” argument ­— before Paul Samuelson took an axe to it — went as follows.

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  Milevsky: What Is a Proper Spending Rate in Retirement?

  By Moshe A. Milevsky  |  March 26, 2012

  Professor Irving Fisher, whose reputation as a great economic scholar was shattered by the Great Depression, developed a unique equation to predict one's spending rate in retirement.

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  Is a Pension Annuity Worth It?

  By Moshe A. Milevsky  |  February 24, 2012

  Towards the end of the 17th century, politicians and bureaucrats in the City of London were facing a problem not unlike the one faced by many aging cities in the early 21st century.

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  Gompertz’ Law of Mortality: How Long Must Your Money Last?

  By Moshe A. Milevsky  |  February 1, 2012

  Benjamin Gompertz has joined a very small distinctive group of scholars with an actual equation named after him. The equation has been used by researchers in demographic studies, the world over, for almost two centuries now.

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  The Debt Retirees Owe to Fibonacci

  By Moshe A. Milevsky  |  December 26, 2011

  You might have heard of Leonardo Pisano filius (“family,” in Latin) Bonacci, a.k.a. Fibonacci (1170-1250), probably the most famous mathematician of the Middle Ages.