In my own mental dialogue about how to construct a portfolio, it’s Zvi Bodie who serves as the counterpoint to the “stocks for the long run” mentality. Contrary to the typical advice, Bodie encourages investors to first satisfy their basic needs with safe investments (e.g., TIPS, inflation-adjusted lifetime annuities), and only after that has been accomplished to start putting money toward higher-risk investments.
This week blogger Matthew Amster-Burton interviewed Zvi Bodie for Mint.com’s blog:
- Risk Less and Prosper: an Interview with Zvi Bodie from Matthew Amster-Burton
Investing Articles
- Historic Stock Market Returns by Country from Monevator
- What Did You Do When the Market Was Down? from The Finance Buff
- Retirement Ready — or Not? from Steve Utkus of Vanguard
- High-Dividend Stocks — a Good Strategy? from Larry Swedroe
- This Decade’s Biggest Investment Challenge from Rick Ferri
- Retirement Planning Guidelines: An Alternative to the Trinity Study from Wade Pfau
Other Money-Related Articles
- How to Sell a Car on Craigslist without Losing Sleep from Money Smart Life
- A Lost Art: Balancing a Checkbook from The Wisdom Journal
- To Build Wealth, Avoid Changing Locations or Partners from Darrow Kirkpatrick
Thanks for reading!
Mike,
These articles are all excellent. The Wade Pfau article was especially good because I like seeing (accessible versions) of the latest academic research into withdrawal rates and retirement planning. The interview with Zvi was also quite good and I plan to read his book someday.
The other articles were also quite good. Your Friday column has really become part of my standard reading.
Please keep up the good work!
I’m happy to hear you’re enjoying the roundups.
Wow, there are so many personal finance sites I don’t know about these days, thanks for pointing some of the them out. And thanks for mentioning my post on selling our car on Craigslist, it felt great to say no to the dealer and sell it for a lot more than they offered.