Zvi Bodie

Zvi Bodie (born April 27, 1943 ) 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. 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.

He has served on the finance faculty at the Harvard Business School and MIT Sloan School of Management. 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. He was also a consultant to the State of Israel concerning reform of their pension system. and in 2019 he received the Plan Sponsor Council of America's Lifetime Achievement Award. He also won the Financial Analysts Journal Graham and Dodd Scroll in 1985 and 1996.

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.

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

He added "he follow[ed] his own advice and did not lose a penny in the recent market meltdown." 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.

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