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Zvi Bodie on Investing for Retirement
Professor Zvi Bodie: The Conventional Investment Wisdom is Wrong
Zvi Bodie (born April 27, 1943) is the Norman and Adele Barron Professor of Management at Boston University. He has published widely on pension finance and investment strategy in leading professional journals.
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- Zvi Bodie on Investing for Retirement
- Professor Zvi Bodie The Conventional Investment Wisdom is Wrong
- References

Bodie's books include Foundations of Pension Finance, Pensions in the U.S. Economy, Issues in Pension Economics, and Financial Aspects of the U.S. Pension System. His textbook, Investments, is the market leader and is used in the certification programs of the CFA Institute and the Society of Actuaries. His textbook Financial Economics is coauthored by Robert C. Merton.
He has served on the finance faculty at the Harvard Business School and MIT Sloan School of Management. He sits on the QFINANCE Advisory Board. In 2007 the Retirement Income Industry Association gave Bodie their Lifetime Achievement Award for applied research.
He holds a Ph.D in economics (1975) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a M.A. in Economics (1970) from the Hebrew University, a B.A. with Honors in Philosophy (1965) from Brooklyn College.