Zvi Bodie

Zvi Bodie 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.

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.[citation needed] In 2007 the Retirement Income I

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