Mel Lindauer

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Mel is a bogleheads.org reading list author

Mel Lindauer, CFS, WMS, (Daytona Beach Shores, FL) was dubbed "The Prince of the Bogleheads" by Jack Bogle. He's one of the leaders of the Bogleheads forums, where he and Taylor have combined to contribute an incredible 46,000 posts, helping investors learn the Boglehead way to invest. A Marine veteran, he started investing in the late '60s and has first-hand experience with both bull and bear markets. Together with Taylor, he initiated and continues to organize the grassroots Bogleheads' annual meetings. He's been quoted in a number of newspapers and national magazines and has appeared on CNN-fn. He was selected as one of Money Magazine's everyday heroes in it's March 2012 issue. Retired since 1997, he was founder and former CEO of a successful graphic arts company in the Philadelphia area for 30 years. Since retirement, he has earned credentials as a Certified Fund Specialist from the Institute of Business and Finance and as a Wealth Management Specialist from Kaplan College. He also holds commercial and flight instructor licenses, and was commissioned a Kentucky Colonel by the Governor of his former home state of Kentucky.

Taken from Page 294 of The Bogleheads' Guide to Investing

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Along with Jack Bogle, Taylor Larimore and Laura Dogu, Mel was honored by being selected as one of Money Magazine's everyday heroes in the magazine's March 2012 issue: Champions of the small investor

Blog

Mel Lindauer is a contributor to The Bogleheads^® View blog on Forbes.com.

• Forbes.com profile: Mel Lindauer.

Laura Dogu, Mel Lindauer: The Bogleheads - Advice Inspired by Jack Bogle

• A Simple Way To Build Your Own Annuity (1 March 2013)

I’ve been asked a number of times if I feel there’s a safe way that an investor can build their own annuity without surrendering a large sum of money to an insurance company to purchase a Single Premium Immediate Annuity (SPIA). Indeed, I do feel that it’s possible for an investor to build a 20 or 30-year risk-free annuity without [...]

• Searching for yield in all the wrong places? (10 February 2013)

With today’s record low yields on FDIC-insured bank saving accounts and CDs, most investors are searching for higher yields. However, many investors are taking on more risk in the pursuit of those higher yields by investing in riskier products, often without realizing that higher yields usually means higher risk. Perhaps you’ve overlooked those “stodgy” old [...]

• 2012 Year-End Financial Checklist (27 December 2012)

With the approaching end of 2012, here’s a brief checklist of some things you may have overlooked that you might still need to take care of. Time to Rebalance? If you rebalance annually, have you already done so, or is this the time of the year when you need to handle that? Required Minimum Distribution [...]

• Paying Down Debt: Often the Best Investment (2 December 2012)

If you have a loan and you have money available to add to your investments, you also have the option of using the money to make an extra payment on the loan.  Is the extra payment a good idea?  Evaluate it as an investment opportunity: you are using money now so that you will have [...]

• WHY OUR PORTFOLIOS DIFFER (Part 2) (15 November 2012)

You probably have a lot of investment ideas, based on what you know about investments. As we discussed in the last column, your portfolio will be different from everyone else’s because of what only you know. In addition, some advice which everyone knows is good advice for everyone. The Bogleheads’ investment philosophy is based on both [...]

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Books

• The Bogleheads' Guide to Investing
• The Bogleheads' Guide to Retirement Planning ISBN 978047045557-9

See also

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