This is Motley Fool Answers. I'm Alison Southwick and I'm joined as always by Robert

Fully vaccinated BroCamp, personal finance expert here at the Motley Fool. Hi, bro. How you doing?

Vaccinated and it feels so good. Yeah, I'm feeling good. How are you, Alison?

I can't believe you just did that. Well, David Gardner is back, you lucky ducks.

Last week, we talked about David's six traits of a rulebreaker stock. And this week, he'll cover his six habits of a rulebreaker investor.

All that and more on this week's episode of Motleyful Answers.

So, bro, what's up?

Well, Allison, we often talk on the show about the power of delaying retirement even by

just a few years. And I've mentioned that I don't have any plans to retire early.

I think the age that I generally have in mind is 67, which like all people born in 1960 or later, is my full retirement age for Social

Security. Of course, you can take it earlier, but then you have a smaller benefit for the

rest of your life. So I kind of think of 67 as the earliest age. I'd like to retire. For me,

that's 16 years from now. But then sometimes I come across items in the news that make me

wonder if I should reconsider.

And that happened last week when it was announced that David Swenson had passed away at the age of 67.

Swenson was the manager of Yale's endowment and really the most influential endowment manager of our times.

Over his 35 years of running Yale's investment office, He produced returns that outperform the average

endowment by 3.4% annually. And many of his former employees went on to manage other portfolios.

Just consider that of the top, 15 endowments based on performance over the past 10 years,

six are managed by people who once worked for Swenson. In just two days before he passed away from cancer, he taught the semester's last session of a class at Yale that he had been co-teaching for more than 20 years.

And then when I heard of Swenson's passing, I thought of Clay Christensen, who was the Harvard Business School professor and author of the classic book, The Innovators Dilemma,

who died in January of 2020 at the age of 67. It was that same month that the world lost

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