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Life-Cycle Investing and Leverage: Buying Stock on Margin Can Reduce Retirement Risk
National Bureau of Economic Research [NBER] 
June 25, 2008
Excerpt: By employing leverage to gain more exposure to stocks when young, individuals can achieve better diversification across time. Using stock data going back to 1871, we show that buying stock on margin when young combined with more conservative investments when older stochastically dominates standard investment strategies--both traditional life-cycle investments and 100%-stock investments.
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