“Veritas quaeritur, non possidetur.” — Truth is sought, not possessed.

I am a tenured professor and have spent most of my professional life in academia; though I have never been entirely comfortable staying within its walls. My day job involves teaching financial planning & literacy, while my outside work has taken me into the “real world” of pensions, investments and decumulation. Over the past 30 years, I have delivered more than 2,000 seminars, keynotes and lectures.

My research interests transcend disciplinary boundaries. I have published on actuarial models of human longevity; mathematical models of tontines; excavated the financial logic of Babylonian annuities; and studied how people priced longevity-contingent claims in the seventeenth century. More recently, I have wandered farther afield into intellectual history and am currently working on a “chronology” project within the late Renaissance & Reformation — when theologians, classicists, and assorted troublemakers argued about something we now take for granted: exactly when the past happened.

This website is a repository for some of the things I have written and published, includes links to books and research, as well as a blog that I update from time to time.