Lifecycle investing
by Ian Ayres, Barry J. Nalebuff · first published 2009
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The book Lifecycle Investing by Nalebuff and Ayres, both professors at Yale, argues fairly convincingly that trading on margin is optimal for young people, especially those expecting high-earning careers (e.g. software developers).…
on “Save like a pessimist, invest like an optimist” ↗The book "Lifecycle Investing," by Yale professors Nalebuff and Ayres, argues that a young person ought to invest 100% or even more (via leverage) in stocks. (More specifically, a young person with high future earning potential, which…
on “Personal finance experts don’t get wealthy by following their own advice” ↗…which flavor you choose, is an amazing thing. 4. If you’re really interested in extremely risky investments in an effort to expose yourself to the largest upside, there’s been some recent work around lifecycle investing where some relatively well respected academics are proposing a model that includes some small amount of leverage for folks who have a long time horizon and a large amount of risk tolerance. This will…
on “Ask HN: Save for retirement?” ↗> An controversial book on investing I recently read is Lifecycle Investing which argues that young people are often much too conservative in their investment strategy, because they should model their future earnings as a bond and allocate enough to equities to compensate for…
on “Spreadsheet formulas for personal finance” ↗This is interesting. The antithesis is probably the book Lifecycle Investing [0] which essentially concludes that you should be 2X leveraged stocks in your youth and slowly reduce leverage over time. 0. https://www.lifecycleinvesting.net/
on “Harry Browne’s 17 Golden Rules of Financial Safety (2013)” ↗