Lifecycle Investing: A New, Safe, and Audacious Way to Improve the Performance of Your Retirement Portfolio » (Unabridged,Library - Unabridged CD)

Ian Ayres is an economist, a lawyer, and the William K. Townsend Professor at Yale Law School. He has written for the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Slate, and The New Republic, and his research has been featured on PrimeTime Live, Oprah, and Good Morning America. He is the author of ten books, including the bestseller Super Crunchers. A graduate of Yale and MIT, he was recently elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He lives in New Haven, Connecticut.

Barry Nalebuff is the Milton Steinbach Professor of Economics and Management at Yale School of Management. He is the author of fifty scholarly articles and multiple books—including Co-opetition and The Art of Strategy—and is the cofounder of Honest Tea. A graduate of MIT and a Rhodes Scholar, he earned his doctorate at Oxford University. He lives in New Haven, Connecticut.

In finance, as in life, there's no such thing as a free lunch—-unless you're well diversified. The push toward diversification inspires many investors to buy index funds, which is a smart move. But most people have missed the chance to diversify over their investing lifecycle.

Now, for the first time, Ian Ayres and Barry Nalebuff—-two of the most innovative thinkers in business, law, and economics—-present investors with a set of tools that will allow us to diversify our portfolios over time, a radical innovation. By leveraging our portfolios when we're young (and leveraging less as we get older), nearly all investors can reduce risk while improving returns. Clearly written and extensively supported by ground-breaking research, Lifecycle Investing presents a simple idea for individual investors that promises to radically transform how all of us retire.