Zvi Bodie

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Zvi Bodie
Born (1943-04-27) April 27, 1943 (age 82)
Citizenship U.S.
Academic background
Education Brooklyn College (BA)
Hebrew University of Jerusalem (MA)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD)
Doctoral advisor Stanley Fischer [1]

Zvi Bodie (born April 27, 1943 [2] ) is an American economist, author and professor. He was the Norman and Adele Barron Professor of Management at Boston University, teaching finance at Questrom for 43 years before retiring in 2015. [3] His textbook, Investments (with Kane and Marcus) is the market leader and is used in the certification programs of the CFA Institute and the Society of Actuaries. [4] Bodie's work has centered on pension finance and investment strategy. [5] He continues to do consulting work and media interviews. [3]

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Education and background

Bodie holds a Ph.D. in economics (1975) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a M.A. in economics (1970) from the Hebrew University, and a B.A. with Honors in philosophy (1965) from Brooklyn College. [2] [4]

He has served on the finance faculty at the Harvard Business School and MIT Sloan School of Management. [6] Bodie was on the editorial board of the Journal of Pension Economics and Finance, and served as an advisory member to the World Bank Project on Old Age Security. [7] He was also a consultant to the State of Israel concerning reform of their pension system. [3]

In 2007 the Retirement Income Industry Association gave Bodie their Lifetime Achievement Award for applied research, [8] and in 2019 he received the Plan Sponsor Council of America's Lifetime Achievement Award. [9] He also won the Financial Analysts Journal Graham and Dodd Scroll in 1985 and 1996. [4]

Investment philosophy

Bodie advocates a defensive investment strategy that centers around diversifying, hedging, insuring and saving. [10]

In 1995 he offered a warning about the risks of investing heavily in stocks, in a journal article: On the Risk of Stocks in the Long Run. [11]

In 2003, he said "people who have been following conventional investment advice are probably taking more risk than they should and don't even know it. They've been told not to worry about the stock market going down because in the long-run, stocks are going to beat everything else. That's a fundamental fallacy." [12]

After the 2008 financial crisis, in a 2009 interview, he advised:

"Unless you have the heart of a high stakes gambler, get out of stocks now and put your retirement money in inflation protected government bonds and similar instruments. These investments are immune to the kind of calamity Wall Street experienced last year, and they are guaranteed to keep pace with inflation, a potential problem in the future."

He added "he follow[ed] his own advice and did not lose a penny in the recent market meltdown." [13] But Bodie offered his advice in March 2009, at the end of the bear market. In the following years stock markets rose sharply, the Dow Jones for example more than doubled in the following five years. [14]

Bodie has promoted his system of investment and retirement planning in numerous interviews on PBS, CNN and other media outlets over the years. [15] [16] [17] [18]

Bibliography

Bodie has authored and co-authored multiple books and textbooks, [19] and his written works have focused on pension finance and investment strategy. Some of his work is listed below. [5] [19]

Books

Textbooks

Journal articles

References

  1. ↑ Bodie, Zvi (1975). Hedging against inflation (Ph.D.). MIT . Retrieved 23 May 2017.
  2. 1 2 "About - Zvi Brodie". www.amazon.com. Retrieved 2020-09-29.
  3. 1 2 3 "Retirement Savings Hit Hard by COVID-19? Here's What to Do Next". Boston University. 16 July 2020. Retrieved 2020-09-29.
  4. 1 2 3 "Zvi Bodie". Archived from the original on August 18, 2004. Retrieved June 14, 2010.
  5. 1 2 "Zvi Bodie". 2010-08-18. Archived from the original on 2010-08-18. Retrieved 2020-09-29.
  6. ↑ "Zvi Bodie | TIAA Institute". www.tiaainstitute.org. Retrieved 2020-09-29.
  7. ↑ "Old Age Income Support in the 21st Century: The World Bank's Perspective on Pension Systems and Reform".
  8. ↑ "PSCA Honors Zvi Bodie With Lifetime Achievement Award". Plan Sponsor Council of America. 2019-11-20. Retrieved 2020-09-29.
  9. ↑ "Boston University's Zvi Bodie to receive PSCA's Lifetime Achievement Award". Pensions & Investments. 2019-03-11. Retrieved 2020-09-30.
  10. ↑ "Conversations with E21: Zvi Bodie on How to Make Sense of Markets in the Time of Coronavirus". Economics21. 2020-04-06. Retrieved 2020-09-30.
  11. 1 2 Bodie, Zvi (1995-05-01). "On the Risk of Stocks in the Long Run" . Financial Analysts Journal. 51 (3): 18–22. doi:10.2469/faj.v51.n3.1901. ISSN   0015-198X.
  12. ↑ "BW Online | July 28, 2003 | Online Extra: Sleep Soundly without Stocks". 2011-06-20. Archived from the original on 2011-06-20. Retrieved 2020-09-30.
  13. ↑ "Sell Your Stocks, MIT Sloan Professor Urges Small Investors Saving for Retirement". www.businesswire.com. 2009-03-12. Retrieved 2020-09-30.
  14. ↑ Smith, Gary (2025-04-09). "Another stock market crash? Don't just do something — sit there". MarketWatch. Retrieved 2025-04-09.
  15. ↑ Tarquinio, J. Alex (2009-04-01). "A Hedge Against Inflation". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 2020-09-30.
  16. ↑ "As the markets swing, should you be freaking out about your 401K?". PBS NewsHour. 2018-04-03. Retrieved 2020-09-30.
  17. ↑ "Economist Zvi Bodie debunks standard investment advice - Sep. 16, 2009". money.cnn.com. Retrieved 2020-09-30.
  18. ↑ Geer, Carolyn T. (2012-03-04). "How Much You Need vs. How Much You Can Lose". Wall Street Journal. ISSN   0099-9660 . Retrieved 2020-09-30.
  19. 1 2 "Books". Zvi Bodie. Retrieved 2020-09-29.
  20. ↑ "The Foundations of Pension Finance". Books. Two volume set. Edward Elgar Publishing. 2000.
  21. ↑ Bodie, Zvi; Shoven, John B.; Wise, David A., eds. (1988). Pensions in the U.S. economy. National Bureau of Economic Research project report. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN   9780226062853. OCLC   16356714.
  22. ↑ Bodie, Zvi; Shoven, John B.; Wise, David A., eds. (1987). Issues in pension economics. National Bureau of Economic Research project report. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN   9780226062846. OCLC   14187646.
  23. ↑ Financial Aspects of the United States Pension System. A National Bureau of Economic Research project report. University of Chicago Press. 1983. ISBN   978-0-226-06281-5 . Retrieved 2020-09-29.{{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help)
  24. ↑ Jin, Li; Merton, Robert C.; Bodie, Zvi (2006-07-01). "Do a firm's equity returns reflect the risk of its pension plan?" . Journal of Financial Economics. 81 (1): 1–26. doi:10.1016/j.jfineco.2005.06.005. ISSN   0304-405X.
  25. ↑ Bodie, Zvi; Crane, Dwight B. (1997-11-01). "Personal Investing: Advice, Theory, and Evidence" . Financial Analysts Journal. 53 (6): 13–23. doi:10.2469/faj.v53.n6.2126. ISSN   0015-198X.
  26. ↑ Bodie, Zvi; Rosansky, Victor I. (1980-05-01). "Risk and Return in Commodity Futures" . Financial Analysts Journal. 36 (3): 27–39. doi:10.2469/faj.v36.n3.27. ISSN   0015-198X.
  27. ↑ Bodie, Zvi (1976). "Common Stocks as a Hedge Against Inflation" . The Journal of Finance. 31 (2): 459–470. doi:10.1111/j.1540-6261.1976.tb01899.x. ISSN   1540-6261.
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