Jeremy Gold

Jeremy Edward Gold was an American actuary and economist known for his advocacy of applying financial economics to pension actuarial practice. Born on November 28, 1942, in Brooklyn, New York, Gold grew up on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. After dropping out of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he earned a bachelor's degree from Pace College in 1969. Gold worked for twenty years as a pension actuary at Alexander & Alexander and Buck Consultants. He was one of the first actuaries to work on Wall Street in the 1980s. Throughout his career, Gold focused on the application of financial economics to pension actuarial practice and critically analyzed actuarial standards and professionalism.