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JASON ZWEIG
There’s a reason the Oracle of Omaha is an ultrabillionaire as he turns 90: He grasped the power of compounding at the age of 10. The sooner the rest of us fully understand it, the better off we’ll be. This Fund Is Up 7,298% in 10 Years. You Don’t Want It. A leveraged fund that goes by its ticker, TQQQ, triples the daily upside of the BOOKS BY JASON ZWEIG Jason Zweig became a personal finance columnist for The Wall Street Journal in 2008. He was a senior writer for Money magazine and a guest columnist for Time magazine and cnn.com. He is the author of Your Money and Your Brain (Simon & Schuster, 2007), one of the first books to explore the neuroscience of investing. Zweig is also the editor of the revised edition of Benjamin Graham’s TheABOUT | JASON ZWEIG
Jason Zweig became a personal finance columnist for The Wall Street Journal in 2008. Zweig is also the editor of the revised edition of Benjamin Graham’s The Intelligent Investor (HarperCollins, 2003), the classic text that Warren Buffett has described as “by far the best book about investing ever written.” He is the author of Your Money and Your Brain (Simon & Schuster, 2007), one of THE SOUL OF AN INVESTOR The Soul of an Investor. Most of us manage our money the way St. Augustine prayed before he was fully ready to give up the pleasures of the flesh: “Make me virtuous, O Lord — but not yet.”. We’re always just about ready to save more, spend less, invest THIS DAY IN FINANCIAL HISTORY 2000: U.S. District Court Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson finalizes his ruling that Microsoft is a monopoly under the Sherman Antitrust Act, ordering that the "untrustworthy" company be split in two and placed under various restrictions. Microsoft announces its plans to appeal the ruling. Meanwhile, the stock market -- which had fallen by nearly a third in previous months amid fears that LEARNING FROM THE BEAR MARKET OF 1973-1974 Neff’s 31-year record of beating the market by more than three percentage points annually is unrivaled. After losing 25% in 1973 and 16.8% more in 1974, Neff gained 54.5% in 1975 and another 46.4% in 1976. “A noticeable portion of my cumulative outperformance,” saysON CHARLIE MUNGER
On Charlie Munger. Image credit: Photo by Nick Webb, May 5, 2010 ( Flickr) Charlie Munger, the blunt and brilliant vice chairman of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., isn’t big on small talk. My first encounter with him was in 2004 at the Sunday brunch Warren Buffett used to hold at Berkshire’s annual meeting. I was getting something at a buffet WOULD BENJAMIN GRAHAM HAVE HATED INDEX FUNDS? The short answer: Benjamin Graham also believed in index funds, as his own statements show. Born in 1894, Graham died in 1976, barely a year after John C. Bogle and Vanguard Group launched the first index fund for individual investors. But the idea THE SPECIAL TRICK TO FIND THE RIGHT FINANCIAL ADVISER Then, take a moment to capture your intuition about how likable and trustworthy the adviser is. Don’t think hard or long: Just “close your eyes,” as Prof. Kahneman says, and quickly score your gut feelings about the person from 1 to 5. After you’ve interviewed at HOW BERNIE MADOFF MADE SMART FOLKS LOOK DUMB The late comedian immortalized oxymorons, those absurd word pairs like “jumbo shrimp” and “military intelligence.”. Mr. Madoff just put the silliest of all financial oxymorons into the spotlight: “sophisticated investor.”. The accounts managed by Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC reported gains of roughly 1% a monthlike
JASON ZWEIG
There’s a reason the Oracle of Omaha is an ultrabillionaire as he turns 90: He grasped the power of compounding at the age of 10. The sooner the rest of us fully understand it, the better off we’ll be. This Fund Is Up 7,298% in 10 Years. You Don’t Want It. A leveraged fund that goes by its ticker, TQQQ, triples the daily upside of the BOOKS BY JASON ZWEIG Jason Zweig became a personal finance columnist for The Wall Street Journal in 2008. He was a senior writer for Money magazine and a guest columnist for Time magazine and cnn.com. He is the author of Your Money and Your Brain (Simon & Schuster, 2007), one of the first books to explore the neuroscience of investing. Zweig is also the editor of the revised edition of Benjamin Graham’s TheABOUT | JASON ZWEIG
Jason Zweig became a personal finance columnist for The Wall Street Journal in 2008. Zweig is also the editor of the revised edition of Benjamin Graham’s The Intelligent Investor (HarperCollins, 2003), the classic text that Warren Buffett has described as “by far the best book about investing ever written.” He is the author of Your Money and Your Brain (Simon & Schuster, 2007), one of THE SOUL OF AN INVESTOR The Soul of an Investor. Most of us manage our money the way St. Augustine prayed before he was fully ready to give up the pleasures of the flesh: “Make me virtuous, O Lord — but not yet.”. We’re always just about ready to save more, spend less, invest THIS DAY IN FINANCIAL HISTORY 2000: U.S. District Court Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson finalizes his ruling that Microsoft is a monopoly under the Sherman Antitrust Act, ordering that the "untrustworthy" company be split in two and placed under various restrictions. Microsoft announces its plans to appeal the ruling. Meanwhile, the stock market -- which had fallen by nearly a third in previous months amid fears that LEARNING FROM THE BEAR MARKET OF 1973-1974 Neff’s 31-year record of beating the market by more than three percentage points annually is unrivaled. After losing 25% in 1973 and 16.8% more in 1974, Neff gained 54.5% in 1975 and another 46.4% in 1976. “A noticeable portion of my cumulative outperformance,” saysON CHARLIE MUNGER
On Charlie Munger. Image credit: Photo by Nick Webb, May 5, 2010 ( Flickr) Charlie Munger, the blunt and brilliant vice chairman of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., isn’t big on small talk. My first encounter with him was in 2004 at the Sunday brunch Warren Buffett used to hold at Berkshire’s annual meeting. I was getting something at a buffet WOULD BENJAMIN GRAHAM HAVE HATED INDEX FUNDS? The short answer: Benjamin Graham also believed in index funds, as his own statements show. Born in 1894, Graham died in 1976, barely a year after John C. Bogle and Vanguard Group launched the first index fund for individual investors. But the idea THE SPECIAL TRICK TO FIND THE RIGHT FINANCIAL ADVISER Then, take a moment to capture your intuition about how likable and trustworthy the adviser is. Don’t think hard or long: Just “close your eyes,” as Prof. Kahneman says, and quickly score your gut feelings about the person from 1 to 5. After you’ve interviewed at HOW BERNIE MADOFF MADE SMART FOLKS LOOK DUMB The late comedian immortalized oxymorons, those absurd word pairs like “jumbo shrimp” and “military intelligence.”. Mr. Madoff just put the silliest of all financial oxymorons into the spotlight: “sophisticated investor.”. The accounts managed by Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC reported gains of roughly 1% a monthlike
ABOUT | JASON ZWEIG
Jason Zweig became a personal finance columnist for The Wall Street Journal in 2008. Zweig is also the editor of the revised edition of Benjamin Graham’s The Intelligent Investor (HarperCollins, 2003), the classic text that Warren Buffett has described as “by far the best book about investing ever written.” He is the author of Your Money and Your Brain (Simon & Schuster, 2007), one of RESOURCES | JASON ZWEIG Advanced Research If you’re a junkie for investment research and have a love of hard arguments and sophisticated mathematics, these sites are full of good stuff. But don’t be embarrasse THE INTELLIGENT INVESTOR, REVISED EDITION Jason Zweig is the investing and personal finance columnist for The Wall Street Journal.Previously, he was a senior writer for Money magazine and a guest columnist for Time magazine and CNN.com. Before joining Money in 1995, Zweig was the mutual funds editor at Forbes. A frequent commentator on television and radio, Zweig is also a popular public speaker who has addressed the American “IN MEMORY OF MY FATHER” (BY AND FOR MY FATHER) Posted by jasonzweig on Dec 5, 2016 in Articles & Advice, Blog, Featured, Posts | . By Jason Zweig | Dec. 4, 2016 1:07 pm ET. Image credit: Irving J. Zweig (right), in 1961, with sons Stefan (left) and Jason (center) My father, Irving Zweig, was a farmer, a teacher, a war hero, a historian and political scientist, a newspaper editor and publisher, a semi-pro baseball player, and a connoisseur A GOLDEN OLDIE: THE BOGLEHEADS Posted by jasonzweig on Sep 18, 2014 in Blog, Posts | . Image credit: Wikipedia Creative Commons By Jason Zweig. 8 pm ET Sept. 18, 2014 (updated, but text not altered, 5 pm ET Nov. 29, 2015) By popular demand, I’m posting here the PDFs and full text of an article I wrote years ago: “Here Come the Bogleheads,” about the group of diehard Vanguard investors who revere John C. Bogle, the A REDISCOVERED MASTERPIECE BY BENJAMIN GRAHAM Photo credit: John Schnelder, Flickr Creative Commons. By Jason Zweig | March 31, 2015 10 p.m. ET. Here is the speech Benjamin Graham gave in San Francisco one week before John F. Kennedy was assassinated. In this brilliant presentation, Graham explores how an investor should go about determining whether the market is overvalued, how to tell NEW CAUSE FOR CAUTION ON STOCKS New Cause for Caution on Stocks. TIME Magazine, April 29, 2002. A few catchphrases sum up the 1990s: Bill Clinton’s “It depends on what the meaning of the word is is,” Forrest Gump’s “Life is like a box of chocolates” — and Jeremy Siegel’s “stocks for the long run.”. Siegel, 56, a 16 FAVORITE ANNUAL LETTERS FROM AN INVESTOR WHO’S READ 16 Favorite Annual Letters from an Investor Who’s Read More Than 1,000. Portfolio manager Geoffrey Abbott, who is reading 3,000 annual letters to shareholders to find the best, says 16 have stood out for him so far. With the caveat that he owns only one (Credit Acceptance Corp.) and won’t invest in any without much more thorough research MURPHY WAS AN INVESTOR Murphy Was an Investor. Money Magazine, July 2002. Why does it seem that whatever can go wrong will go wrong? A few days ago, I met an investor who was downright distraught. “I watched Cisco for years,” he said, “and I kept refusing to buy the stock because Ithought it
PHILIP CARRET: BUY ’EM CHEAP AND HOLD ’EM Each share that Carret bought at around $15 is now equal to 40 shares of Greif Bros. Co., worth $1,505. Carret doesn’t hold all his stocks for 48 years, but he really does hate to sell. By buying into Blue Chip Stamp Co. in 1968 he ended up with shares ofJASON ZWEIG
There’s a reason the Oracle of Omaha is an ultrabillionaire as he turns 90: He grasped the power of compounding at the age of 10. The sooner the rest of us fully understand it, the better off we’ll be. This Fund Is Up 7,298% in 10 Years. You Don’t Want It. A leveraged fund that goes by its ticker, TQQQ, triples the daily upside of the THE SOUL OF AN INVESTOR The Soul of an Investor. Most of us manage our money the way St. Augustine prayed before he was fully ready to give up the pleasures of the flesh: “Make me virtuous, O Lord — but not yet.”. We’re always just about ready to save more, spend less, invest THIS DAY IN FINANCIAL HISTORY 2000: U.S. District Court Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson finalizes his ruling that Microsoft is a monopoly under the Sherman Antitrust Act, ordering that the "untrustworthy" company be split in two and placed under various restrictions. Microsoft announces its plans to appeal the ruling. Meanwhile, the stock market -- which had fallen by nearly a third in previous months amid fears that LEARNING FROM THE BEAR MARKET OF 1973-1974 Neff’s 31-year record of beating the market by more than three percentage points annually is unrivaled. After losing 25% in 1973 and 16.8% more in 1974, Neff gained 54.5% in 1975 and another 46.4% in 1976. “A noticeable portion of my cumulative outperformance,” says NEW CAUSE FOR CAUTION ON STOCKS New Cause for Caution on Stocks. TIME Magazine, April 29, 2002. A few catchphrases sum up the 1990s: Bill Clinton’s “It depends on what the meaning of the word is is,” Forrest Gump’s “Life is like a box of chocolates” — and Jeremy Siegel’s “stocks for the long run.”. Siegel, 56, a BACK TO THE FUTURE: LESSONS FROM THE FORGOTTEN ‘FLASH The 1962 flash crash stepped up public pressure on the SEC and Wall Street to clean up trading procedures. But by the summer of 1968, billions of dollars’ worth of trades were going astray every month, and the major stock exchanges had to close down on Wednesdays so brokers could get a midweek breather to catch up on processing delays. THE SPECIAL TRICK TO FIND THE RIGHT FINANCIAL ADVISER Then, take a moment to capture your intuition about how likable and trustworthy the adviser is. Don’t think hard or long: Just “close your eyes,” as Prof. Kahneman says, and quickly score your gut feelings about the person from 1 to 5. After you’ve interviewed at WOULD BENJAMIN GRAHAM HAVE HATED INDEX FUNDS? The short answer: Benjamin Graham also believed in index funds, as his own statements show. Born in 1894, Graham died in 1976, barely a year after John C. Bogle and Vanguard Group launched the first index fund for individual investors. But the idea HOW BERNIE MADOFF MADE SMART FOLKS LOOK DUMB The late comedian immortalized oxymorons, those absurd word pairs like “jumbo shrimp” and “military intelligence.”. Mr. Madoff just put the silliest of all financial oxymorons into the spotlight: “sophisticated investor.”. The accounts managed by Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC reported gains of roughly 1% a monthlike
A FEW GOOD REASONS TO HOARD SOME CASH NOW So cash has climbed to roughly 43% of the fund’s $135 million in assets, up from 26% in 2011. Counting short-term corporate and foreign-government bonds, IVA International Fund has approximately 40% of its $3.3 billion of assets in cash and equivalents. “It’s rare for us to go to the levels you see today,” says Chuck de Lardemelle,co
JASON ZWEIG
There’s a reason the Oracle of Omaha is an ultrabillionaire as he turns 90: He grasped the power of compounding at the age of 10. The sooner the rest of us fully understand it, the better off we’ll be. This Fund Is Up 7,298% in 10 Years. You Don’t Want It. A leveraged fund that goes by its ticker, TQQQ, triples the daily upside of the THE SOUL OF AN INVESTOR The Soul of an Investor. Most of us manage our money the way St. Augustine prayed before he was fully ready to give up the pleasures of the flesh: “Make me virtuous, O Lord — but not yet.”. We’re always just about ready to save more, spend less, invest THIS DAY IN FINANCIAL HISTORY 2000: U.S. District Court Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson finalizes his ruling that Microsoft is a monopoly under the Sherman Antitrust Act, ordering that the "untrustworthy" company be split in two and placed under various restrictions. Microsoft announces its plans to appeal the ruling. Meanwhile, the stock market -- which had fallen by nearly a third in previous months amid fears that NEW CAUSE FOR CAUTION ON STOCKS New Cause for Caution on Stocks. TIME Magazine, April 29, 2002. A few catchphrases sum up the 1990s: Bill Clinton’s “It depends on what the meaning of the word is is,” Forrest Gump’s “Life is like a box of chocolates” — and Jeremy Siegel’s “stocks for the long run.”. Siegel, 56, a LEARNING FROM THE BEAR MARKET OF 1973-1974 Neff’s 31-year record of beating the market by more than three percentage points annually is unrivaled. After losing 25% in 1973 and 16.8% more in 1974, Neff gained 54.5% in 1975 and another 46.4% in 1976. “A noticeable portion of my cumulative outperformance,” says BACK TO THE FUTURE: LESSONS FROM THE FORGOTTEN ‘FLASH The 1962 flash crash stepped up public pressure on the SEC and Wall Street to clean up trading procedures. But by the summer of 1968, billions of dollars’ worth of trades were going astray every month, and the major stock exchanges had to close down on Wednesdays so brokers could get a midweek breather to catch up on processing delays. THE SPECIAL TRICK TO FIND THE RIGHT FINANCIAL ADVISER Then, take a moment to capture your intuition about how likable and trustworthy the adviser is. Don’t think hard or long: Just “close your eyes,” as Prof. Kahneman says, and quickly score your gut feelings about the person from 1 to 5. After you’ve interviewed at WOULD BENJAMIN GRAHAM HAVE HATED INDEX FUNDS? The short answer: Benjamin Graham also believed in index funds, as his own statements show. Born in 1894, Graham died in 1976, barely a year after John C. Bogle and Vanguard Group launched the first index fund for individual investors. But the idea HOW BERNIE MADOFF MADE SMART FOLKS LOOK DUMB The late comedian immortalized oxymorons, those absurd word pairs like “jumbo shrimp” and “military intelligence.”. Mr. Madoff just put the silliest of all financial oxymorons into the spotlight: “sophisticated investor.”. The accounts managed by Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC reported gains of roughly 1% a monthlike
A FEW GOOD REASONS TO HOARD SOME CASH NOW So cash has climbed to roughly 43% of the fund’s $135 million in assets, up from 26% in 2011. Counting short-term corporate and foreign-government bonds, IVA International Fund has approximately 40% of its $3.3 billion of assets in cash and equivalents. “It’s rare for us to go to the levels you see today,” says Chuck de Lardemelle,co
BOOKS BY JASON ZWEIG Jason Zweig became a personal finance columnist for The Wall Street Journal in 2008. He was a senior writer for Money magazine and a guest columnist for Time magazine and cnn.com. He is the author of Your Money and Your Brain (Simon & Schuster, 2007), one of the first books to explore the neuroscience of investing. Zweig is also the editor of the revised edition of Benjamin Graham’s The THE INTELLIGENT INVESTOR, REVISED EDITION Jason Zweig is the investing and personal finance columnist for The Wall Street Journal.Previously, he was a senior writer for Money magazine and a guest columnist for Time magazine and CNN.com. Before joining Money in 1995, Zweig was the mutual funds editor at Forbes. A frequent commentator on television and radio, Zweig is also a popular public speaker who has addressed the American A GOLDEN OLDIE: THE BOGLEHEADS Posted by jasonzweig on Sep 18, 2014 in Blog, Posts | . Image credit: Wikipedia Creative Commons By Jason Zweig. 8 pm ET Sept. 18, 2014 (updated, but text not altered, 5 pm ET Nov. 29, 2015) By popular demand, I’m posting here the PDFs and full text of an article I wrote years ago: “Here Come the Bogleheads,” about the group of diehard Vanguard investors who revere John C. Bogle, the THE EXTRAORDINARY POPULAR DELUSION OF BUBBLE Ever since 1841, when a Scottish journalist named Charles Mackay published the book known today as “Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds,” the answer has seemed clear. If you watch carefully for signs of euphoria, you can sidestep the damage when markets go mad. But bubble spotting isn’t as simple as Mackaymade it
FALSE PROFITS
False Profits. By Jason Zweig | June 20, 2015 5:47 p.m. ET. One of my all-time favorite articles, this one (from 1999) triggered dozens of hate mails and an outpouring of criticism online, comparing me to people who deny evolution or the theory of relativity. My column was misquoted, apparently deliberately, in what seems to have been a lackof
IS YOUR BRAIN WIRED FOR WEALTH? Our brains are wired to force us into forecasting; it is a biological imperative. In fact, humans are born with what I’ve come to call “the prediction addiction.”. Two areas of your brain, the nucleus accumbens and the anterior cingulate, specialize in recognizingpatterns and
ON FIDUCIARY DUTY
June 9, 2017. Image credit: Harriet Goodhue Hosmer, “Clasped Hands of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning,” (1853), National Gallery of Art Today, the U.S. Department of Labor’s rule on fiduciary duty goes into effect (at least for now), requiring anyone giving specific investment advice on retirement accounts to act in the best interest of his or her client. ‘SHALLOW RISK’ AND ‘DEEP RISK’ ARE NO WALK IN THE WOODS Posted by jasonzweig on Jul 29, 2013 in Articles & Advice, Blog, Columns, Featured | . Image Credit: Christophe Vorlet By Jason Zweig | July 26, 2013 7:26 pm ET Earlier this week, the Dow Jones Industrial Average hit 15567.74, a new high. That was the 28th time this year the Dow closed at a record. WHEN ADVISERS CHARGE YOU TO FIRE THEM Termination fees are fairly common. In its latest annual brochure, filed with the SEC in May, Horter Investment Management, a financial-advisory firm based in Cincinnati, says that it charges clients $200 if they exit some of the firm’s strategies within 90 days. That is in addition to management fees that run up to 2.75%annually.
PHILIP CARRET: BUY ’EM CHEAP AND HOLD ’EM Each share that Carret bought at around $15 is now equal to 40 shares of Greif Bros. Co., worth $1,505. Carret doesn’t hold all his stocks for 48 years, but he really does hate to sell. By buying into Blue Chip Stamp Co. in 1968 he ended up with shares ofJASON ZWEIG
There’s a reason the Oracle of Omaha is an ultrabillionaire as he turns 90: He grasped the power of compounding at the age of 10. The sooner the rest of us fully understand it, the better off we’ll be. This Fund Is Up 7,298% in 10 Years. You Don’t Want It. A leveraged fund that goes by its ticker, TQQQ, triples the daily upside of the THE SOUL OF AN INVESTOR The Soul of an Investor. Most of us manage our money the way St. Augustine prayed before he was fully ready to give up the pleasures of the flesh: “Make me virtuous, O Lord — but not yet.”. We’re always just about ready to save more, spend less, invest THIS DAY IN FINANCIAL HISTORY 1794: Cornelius Vanderbilt is born on a farm in Staten Island, N.Y. He starts off in the steamboat business with $100, breaking Robert Fulton's monopoly on steamboat traffic in the Hudson River by charging 75% less. He then moves into railroads, building the New York Central into one of the world's dominant businesses, and dies as the world's LEARNING FROM THE BEAR MARKET OF 1973-1974 Neff’s 31-year record of beating the market by more than three percentage points annually is unrivaled. After losing 25% in 1973 and 16.8% more in 1974, Neff gained 54.5% in 1975 and another 46.4% in 1976. “A noticeable portion of my cumulative outperformance,” says NEW CAUSE FOR CAUTION ON STOCKS New Cause for Caution on Stocks. TIME Magazine, April 29, 2002. A few catchphrases sum up the 1990s: Bill Clinton’s “It depends on what the meaning of the word is is,” Forrest Gump’s “Life is like a box of chocolates” — and Jeremy Siegel’s “stocks for the long run.”. Siegel, 56, a BACK TO THE FUTURE: LESSONS FROM THE FORGOTTEN ‘FLASH The 1962 flash crash stepped up public pressure on the SEC and Wall Street to clean up trading procedures. But by the summer of 1968, billions of dollars’ worth of trades were going astray every month, and the major stock exchanges had to close down on Wednesdays so brokers could get a midweek breather to catch up on processing delays. THE SPECIAL TRICK TO FIND THE RIGHT FINANCIAL ADVISER Then, take a moment to capture your intuition about how likable and trustworthy the adviser is. Don’t think hard or long: Just “close your eyes,” as Prof. Kahneman says, and quickly score your gut feelings about the person from 1 to 5. After you’ve interviewed at WOULD BENJAMIN GRAHAM HAVE HATED INDEX FUNDS? The short answer: Benjamin Graham also believed in index funds, as his own statements show. Born in 1894, Graham died in 1976, barely a year after John C. Bogle and Vanguard Group launched the first index fund for individual investors. But the idea HOW BERNIE MADOFF MADE SMART FOLKS LOOK DUMB The late comedian immortalized oxymorons, those absurd word pairs like “jumbo shrimp” and “military intelligence.”. Mr. Madoff just put the silliest of all financial oxymorons into the spotlight: “sophisticated investor.”. The accounts managed by Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC reported gains of roughly 1% a monthlike
A FEW GOOD REASONS TO HOARD SOME CASH NOW So cash has climbed to roughly 43% of the fund’s $135 million in assets, up from 26% in 2011. Counting short-term corporate and foreign-government bonds, IVA International Fund has approximately 40% of its $3.3 billion of assets in cash and equivalents. “It’s rare for us to go to the levels you see today,” says Chuck de Lardemelle,co
JASON ZWEIG
There’s a reason the Oracle of Omaha is an ultrabillionaire as he turns 90: He grasped the power of compounding at the age of 10. The sooner the rest of us fully understand it, the better off we’ll be. This Fund Is Up 7,298% in 10 Years. You Don’t Want It. A leveraged fund that goes by its ticker, TQQQ, triples the daily upside of the THE SOUL OF AN INVESTOR The Soul of an Investor. Most of us manage our money the way St. Augustine prayed before he was fully ready to give up the pleasures of the flesh: “Make me virtuous, O Lord — but not yet.”. We’re always just about ready to save more, spend less, invest THIS DAY IN FINANCIAL HISTORY 1794: Cornelius Vanderbilt is born on a farm in Staten Island, N.Y. He starts off in the steamboat business with $100, breaking Robert Fulton's monopoly on steamboat traffic in the Hudson River by charging 75% less. He then moves into railroads, building the New York Central into one of the world's dominant businesses, and dies as the world's LEARNING FROM THE BEAR MARKET OF 1973-1974 Neff’s 31-year record of beating the market by more than three percentage points annually is unrivaled. After losing 25% in 1973 and 16.8% more in 1974, Neff gained 54.5% in 1975 and another 46.4% in 1976. “A noticeable portion of my cumulative outperformance,” says NEW CAUSE FOR CAUTION ON STOCKS New Cause for Caution on Stocks. TIME Magazine, April 29, 2002. A few catchphrases sum up the 1990s: Bill Clinton’s “It depends on what the meaning of the word is is,” Forrest Gump’s “Life is like a box of chocolates” — and Jeremy Siegel’s “stocks for the long run.”. Siegel, 56, a BACK TO THE FUTURE: LESSONS FROM THE FORGOTTEN ‘FLASH The 1962 flash crash stepped up public pressure on the SEC and Wall Street to clean up trading procedures. But by the summer of 1968, billions of dollars’ worth of trades were going astray every month, and the major stock exchanges had to close down on Wednesdays so brokers could get a midweek breather to catch up on processing delays. THE SPECIAL TRICK TO FIND THE RIGHT FINANCIAL ADVISER Then, take a moment to capture your intuition about how likable and trustworthy the adviser is. Don’t think hard or long: Just “close your eyes,” as Prof. Kahneman says, and quickly score your gut feelings about the person from 1 to 5. After you’ve interviewed at WOULD BENJAMIN GRAHAM HAVE HATED INDEX FUNDS? The short answer: Benjamin Graham also believed in index funds, as his own statements show. Born in 1894, Graham died in 1976, barely a year after John C. Bogle and Vanguard Group launched the first index fund for individual investors. But the idea HOW BERNIE MADOFF MADE SMART FOLKS LOOK DUMB The late comedian immortalized oxymorons, those absurd word pairs like “jumbo shrimp” and “military intelligence.”. Mr. Madoff just put the silliest of all financial oxymorons into the spotlight: “sophisticated investor.”. The accounts managed by Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC reported gains of roughly 1% a monthlike
A FEW GOOD REASONS TO HOARD SOME CASH NOW So cash has climbed to roughly 43% of the fund’s $135 million in assets, up from 26% in 2011. Counting short-term corporate and foreign-government bonds, IVA International Fund has approximately 40% of its $3.3 billion of assets in cash and equivalents. “It’s rare for us to go to the levels you see today,” says Chuck de Lardemelle,co
BOOKS BY JASON ZWEIG Jason Zweig became a personal finance columnist for The Wall Street Journal in 2008. He was a senior writer for Money magazine and a guest columnist for Time magazine and cnn.com. He is the author of Your Money and Your Brain (Simon & Schuster, 2007), one of the first books to explore the neuroscience of investing. Zweig is also the editor of the revised edition of Benjamin Graham’s The THE INTELLIGENT INVESTOR, REVISED EDITION Jason Zweig is the investing and personal finance columnist for The Wall Street Journal.Previously, he was a senior writer for Money magazine and a guest columnist for Time magazine and CNN.com. Before joining Money in 1995, Zweig was the mutual funds editor at Forbes. A frequent commentator on television and radio, Zweig is also a popular public speaker who has addressed the American A GOLDEN OLDIE: THE BOGLEHEADS Posted by jasonzweig on Sep 18, 2014 in Blog, Posts | . Image credit: Wikipedia Creative Commons By Jason Zweig. 8 pm ET Sept. 18, 2014 (updated, but text not altered, 5 pm ET Nov. 29, 2015) By popular demand, I’m posting here the PDFs and full text of an article I wrote years ago: “Here Come the Bogleheads,” about the group of diehard Vanguard investors who revere John C. Bogle, the THE EXTRAORDINARY POPULAR DELUSION OF BUBBLE Ever since 1841, when a Scottish journalist named Charles Mackay published the book known today as “Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds,” the answer has seemed clear. If you watch carefully for signs of euphoria, you can sidestep the damage when markets go mad. But bubble spotting isn’t as simple as Mackaymade it
FALSE PROFITS
False Profits. By Jason Zweig | June 20, 2015 5:47 p.m. ET. One of my all-time favorite articles, this one (from 1999) triggered dozens of hate mails and an outpouring of criticism online, comparing me to people who deny evolution or the theory of relativity. My column was misquoted, apparently deliberately, in what seems to have been a lackof
ON FIDUCIARY DUTY
June 9, 2017. Image credit: Harriet Goodhue Hosmer, “Clasped Hands of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning,” (1853), National Gallery of Art Today, the U.S. Department of Labor’s rule on fiduciary duty goes into effect (at least for now), requiring anyone giving specific investment advice on retirement accounts to act in the best interest of his or her client. A FEW GOOD REASONS TO HOARD SOME CASH NOW So cash has climbed to roughly 43% of the fund’s $135 million in assets, up from 26% in 2011. Counting short-term corporate and foreign-government bonds, IVA International Fund has approximately 40% of its $3.3 billion of assets in cash and equivalents. “It’s rare for us to go to the levels you see today,” says Chuck de Lardemelle,co
‘SHALLOW RISK’ AND ‘DEEP RISK’ ARE NO WALK IN THE WOODS Posted by jasonzweig on Jul 29, 2013 in Articles & Advice, Blog, Columns, Featured | . Image Credit: Christophe Vorlet By Jason Zweig | July 26, 2013 7:26 pm ET Earlier this week, the Dow Jones Industrial Average hit 15567.74, a new high. That was the 28th time this year the Dow closed at a record. WHEN ADVISERS CHARGE YOU TO FIRE THEM Termination fees are fairly common. In its latest annual brochure, filed with the SEC in May, Horter Investment Management, a financial-advisory firm based in Cincinnati, says that it charges clients $200 if they exit some of the firm’s strategies within 90 days. That is in addition to management fees that run up to 2.75%annually.
PHILIP CARRET: BUY ’EM CHEAP AND HOLD ’EM Each share that Carret bought at around $15 is now equal to 40 shares of Greif Bros. Co., worth $1,505. Carret doesn’t hold all his stocks for 48 years, but he really does hate to sell. By buying into Blue Chip Stamp Co. in 1968 he ended up with shares ofJASON ZWEIG
There’s a reason the Oracle of Omaha is an ultrabillionaire as he turns 90: He grasped the power of compounding at the age of 10. The sooner the rest of us fully understand it, the better off we’ll be. This Fund Is Up 7,298% in 10 Years. You Don’t Want It. A leveraged fund that goes by its ticker, TQQQ, triples the daily upside of the THE SOUL OF AN INVESTOR The Soul of an Investor. Most of us manage our money the way St. Augustine prayed before he was fully ready to give up the pleasures of the flesh: “Make me virtuous, O Lord — but not yet.”. We’re always just about ready to save more, spend less, invest THIS DAY IN FINANCIAL HISTORY 1723: Adam Smith, the intellectual father of capitalism, is baptized in Kirkaldy, County Fife, Scotland, son of the widow of a local customs officer who had died five months earlier. The exact date of his birth is unknown, but Smith's Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, published in 1776, lives on as the manifestoof capitalism.
LEARNING FROM THE BEAR MARKET OF 1973-1974 Neff’s 31-year record of beating the market by more than three percentage points annually is unrivaled. After losing 25% in 1973 and 16.8% more in 1974, Neff gained 54.5% in 1975 and another 46.4% in 1976. “A noticeable portion of my cumulative outperformance,” says NEW CAUSE FOR CAUTION ON STOCKS New Cause for Caution on Stocks. TIME Magazine, April 29, 2002. A few catchphrases sum up the 1990s: Bill Clinton’s “It depends on what the meaning of the word is is,” Forrest Gump’s “Life is like a box of chocolates” — and Jeremy Siegel’s “stocks for the long run.”. Siegel, 56, a BACK TO THE FUTURE: LESSONS FROM THE FORGOTTEN ‘FLASH The 1962 flash crash stepped up public pressure on the SEC and Wall Street to clean up trading procedures. But by the summer of 1968, billions of dollars’ worth of trades were going astray every month, and the major stock exchanges had to close down on Wednesdays so brokers could get a midweek breather to catch up on processing delays. THE SPECIAL TRICK TO FIND THE RIGHT FINANCIAL ADVISER Then, take a moment to capture your intuition about how likable and trustworthy the adviser is. Don’t think hard or long: Just “close your eyes,” as Prof. Kahneman says, and quickly score your gut feelings about the person from 1 to 5. After you’ve interviewed at WOULD BENJAMIN GRAHAM HAVE HATED INDEX FUNDS? The short answer: Benjamin Graham also believed in index funds, as his own statements show. Born in 1894, Graham died in 1976, barely a year after John C. Bogle and Vanguard Group launched the first index fund for individual investors. But the idea HOW BERNIE MADOFF MADE SMART FOLKS LOOK DUMB The late comedian immortalized oxymorons, those absurd word pairs like “jumbo shrimp” and “military intelligence.”. Mr. Madoff just put the silliest of all financial oxymorons into the spotlight: “sophisticated investor.”. The accounts managed by Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC reported gains of roughly 1% a monthlike
A FEW GOOD REASONS TO HOARD SOME CASH NOW So cash has climbed to roughly 43% of the fund’s $135 million in assets, up from 26% in 2011. Counting short-term corporate and foreign-government bonds, IVA International Fund has approximately 40% of its $3.3 billion of assets in cash and equivalents. “It’s rare for us to go to the levels you see today,” says Chuck de Lardemelle,co
JASON ZWEIG
There’s a reason the Oracle of Omaha is an ultrabillionaire as he turns 90: He grasped the power of compounding at the age of 10. The sooner the rest of us fully understand it, the better off we’ll be. This Fund Is Up 7,298% in 10 Years. You Don’t Want It. A leveraged fund that goes by its ticker, TQQQ, triples the daily upside of the THE SOUL OF AN INVESTOR The Soul of an Investor. Most of us manage our money the way St. Augustine prayed before he was fully ready to give up the pleasures of the flesh: “Make me virtuous, O Lord — but not yet.”. We’re always just about ready to save more, spend less, invest THIS DAY IN FINANCIAL HISTORY 1723: Adam Smith, the intellectual father of capitalism, is baptized in Kirkaldy, County Fife, Scotland, son of the widow of a local customs officer who had died five months earlier. The exact date of his birth is unknown, but Smith's Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, published in 1776, lives on as the manifestoof capitalism.
LEARNING FROM THE BEAR MARKET OF 1973-1974 Neff’s 31-year record of beating the market by more than three percentage points annually is unrivaled. After losing 25% in 1973 and 16.8% more in 1974, Neff gained 54.5% in 1975 and another 46.4% in 1976. “A noticeable portion of my cumulative outperformance,” says NEW CAUSE FOR CAUTION ON STOCKS New Cause for Caution on Stocks. TIME Magazine, April 29, 2002. A few catchphrases sum up the 1990s: Bill Clinton’s “It depends on what the meaning of the word is is,” Forrest Gump’s “Life is like a box of chocolates” — and Jeremy Siegel’s “stocks for the long run.”. Siegel, 56, a BACK TO THE FUTURE: LESSONS FROM THE FORGOTTEN ‘FLASH The 1962 flash crash stepped up public pressure on the SEC and Wall Street to clean up trading procedures. But by the summer of 1968, billions of dollars’ worth of trades were going astray every month, and the major stock exchanges had to close down on Wednesdays so brokers could get a midweek breather to catch up on processing delays. THE SPECIAL TRICK TO FIND THE RIGHT FINANCIAL ADVISER Then, take a moment to capture your intuition about how likable and trustworthy the adviser is. Don’t think hard or long: Just “close your eyes,” as Prof. Kahneman says, and quickly score your gut feelings about the person from 1 to 5. After you’ve interviewed at WOULD BENJAMIN GRAHAM HAVE HATED INDEX FUNDS? The short answer: Benjamin Graham also believed in index funds, as his own statements show. Born in 1894, Graham died in 1976, barely a year after John C. Bogle and Vanguard Group launched the first index fund for individual investors. But the idea HOW BERNIE MADOFF MADE SMART FOLKS LOOK DUMB The late comedian immortalized oxymorons, those absurd word pairs like “jumbo shrimp” and “military intelligence.”. Mr. Madoff just put the silliest of all financial oxymorons into the spotlight: “sophisticated investor.”. The accounts managed by Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC reported gains of roughly 1% a monthlike
A FEW GOOD REASONS TO HOARD SOME CASH NOW So cash has climbed to roughly 43% of the fund’s $135 million in assets, up from 26% in 2011. Counting short-term corporate and foreign-government bonds, IVA International Fund has approximately 40% of its $3.3 billion of assets in cash and equivalents. “It’s rare for us to go to the levels you see today,” says Chuck de Lardemelle,co
THE EXTRAORDINARY POPULAR DELUSION OF BUBBLE Ever since 1841, when a Scottish journalist named Charles Mackay published the book known today as “Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds,” the answer has seemed clear. If you watch carefully for signs of euphoria, you can sidestep the damage when markets go mad. But bubble spotting isn’t as simple as Mackaymade it
A GOLDEN OLDIE: THE BOGLEHEADS Posted by jasonzweig on Sep 18, 2014 in Blog, Posts | . Image credit: Wikipedia Creative Commons By Jason Zweig. 8 pm ET Sept. 18, 2014 (updated, but text not altered, 5 pm ET Nov. 29, 2015) By popular demand, I’m posting here the PDFs and full text of an article I wrote years ago: “Here Come the Bogleheads,” about the group of diehard Vanguard investors who revere John C. Bogle, the IS YOUR BRAIN WIRED FOR WEALTH? Our brains are wired to force us into forecasting; it is a biological imperative. In fact, humans are born with what I’ve come to call “the prediction addiction.”. Two areas of your brain, the nucleus accumbens and the anterior cingulate, specialize in recognizingpatterns and
ON FIDUCIARY DUTY
June 9, 2017. Image credit: Harriet Goodhue Hosmer, “Clasped Hands of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning,” (1853), National Gallery of Art Today, the U.S. Department of Labor’s rule on fiduciary duty goes into effect (at least for now), requiring anyone giving specific investment advice on retirement accounts to act in the best interest of his or her client. THE BENJAMIN GRAHAM FINANCIAL NETWORK Posted by jasonzweig on Jan 11, 2017 in Articles & Advice, Blog, Featured, Posts | . By Jason Zweig | Jan. 11, 2017, 9:29 pm ET Image credit: “A Television Transmitter” (1930), Library of Congress Here, by popular demand, I’m posting one of my favorite pages from the edition I edited of Benjamin Graham‘s The Intelligent Investor. Further comment would be superfluous.ON CHARLIE MUNGER
On Charlie Munger. Image credit: Photo by Nick Webb, May 5, 2010 ( Flickr) Charlie Munger, the blunt and brilliant vice chairman of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., isn’t big on small talk. My first encounter with him was in 2004 at the Sunday brunch Warren Buffett used to hold at Berkshire’s annual meeting. I was getting something at a buffet A FEW GOOD REASONS TO HOARD SOME CASH NOW So cash has climbed to roughly 43% of the fund’s $135 million in assets, up from 26% in 2011. Counting short-term corporate and foreign-government bonds, IVA International Fund has approximately 40% of its $3.3 billion of assets in cash and equivalents. “It’s rare for us to go to the levels you see today,” says Chuck de Lardemelle,co
‘SHALLOW RISK’ AND ‘DEEP RISK’ ARE NO WALK IN THE WOODS Posted by jasonzweig on Jul 29, 2013 in Articles & Advice, Blog, Columns, Featured | . Image Credit: Christophe Vorlet By Jason Zweig | July 26, 2013 7:26 pm ET Earlier this week, the Dow Jones Industrial Average hit 15567.74, a new high. That was the 28th time this year the Dow closed at a record. WHEN ADVISERS CHARGE YOU TO FIRE THEM Termination fees are fairly common. In its latest annual brochure, filed with the SEC in May, Horter Investment Management, a financial-advisory firm based in Cincinnati, says that it charges clients $200 if they exit some of the firm’s strategies within 90 days. That is in addition to management fees that run up to 2.75%annually.
PHILIP CARRET: BUY ’EM CHEAP AND HOLD ’EM Each share that Carret bought at around $15 is now equal to 40 shares of Greif Bros. Co., worth $1,505. Carret doesn’t hold all his stocks for 48 years, but he really does hate to sell. By buying into Blue Chip Stamp Co. in 1968 he ended up with shares ofJASON ZWEIG
Jan22 Every Warren Buffett Needs a Charlie Munger. Posted on Jan 22 by jasonzweig. Online trading buddies can lift you up when you’re feeling down. But real-world friends tell you when you’re wrong. BOOKS BY JASON ZWEIG Jason Zweig became a personal finance columnist for The Wall Street Journal in 2008. He was a senior writer for Money magazine and a guest columnist for Time magazine and cnn.com. He is the author of Your Money and Your Brain (Simon & Schuster, 2007), one of the first books to explore the neuroscience of investing. Zweig is also the editor of the revised edition of Benjamin Graham’s The THE SOUL OF AN INVESTOR Image credit:Â Anna Hurst By Jason Zweig. Dec. 3, 2014. Almost exactly a decade ago, I met perhaps the toughest and most disciplined investor I’ve ever encountered: a former Lt. Col. in the U.S. Armynamed Jack Hurst.
BACK TO THE FUTURE: LESSONS FROM THE FORGOTTEN ‘FLASH Supplemental materials: From The Wall Street Journal: “Abreast of the Market,” May 29, 1962 “The Market Plunge,” May 29, 1962 “Heller Says Economic Prospects Provide No Basis for Sharp Stock Market Drop,” May 29, 1962 “SEC Probes Market to See if the ‘Pros’ Helped Trigger Drop,” May 31, 1962 From the Securities and Exchange Commission: LEARNING FROM THE BEAR MARKET OF 1973-1974 Posted by jasonzweig on Dec 11, 2016 in Articles & Advice, Blog, Featured, Posts | . By Jason Zweig | Dec. 11, 2016 6:47 pm ET. Image credit: “The Life of a Hunter: A Tight Fix,” Currier & Ives (after Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait), ca. 1861, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art It isn’t quite true, to paraphrase Tolstoy, that all bull markets are alike but each bear market is unhappy in its THE 19 QUESTIONS TO ASK YOUR FINANCIAL ADVISER Posted by jasonzweig on Aug 31, 2017 in Articles & Advice, Blog, Columns, Featured | . Image Credit: Christophe Vorlet By Jason Zweig | Aug. 25, 2017 5:30 am ET Getting all stockbrokers, financial planners and insurance agents to act in the best interests of their clients is a struggle that financial firms and their regulators still haven’tresolved.
A GOLDEN OLDIE: THE BOGLEHEADS Posted by jasonzweig on Sep 18, 2014 in Blog, Posts | . Image credit: Wikipedia Creative Commons By Jason Zweig. 8 pm ET Sept. 18, 2014 (updated, but text not altered, 5 pm ET Nov. 29, 2015) By popular demand, I’m posting here the PDFs and full text of an article I wrote years ago: “Here Come the Bogleheads,” about the group of diehard Vanguard investors who revere John C. Bogle, the “IN MEMORY OF MY FATHER” (BY AND FOR MY FATHER) Posted by jasonzweig on Dec 5, 2016 in Articles & Advice, Blog, Featured, Posts | . By Jason Zweig | Dec. 4, 2016 1:07 pm ET. Image credit: Irving J. Zweig (right), in 1961, with sons Stefan (left) and Jason (center) My father, Irving Zweig, was a farmer, a teacher, a war hero, a historian and political scientist, a newspaper editor and publisher, a semi-pro baseball player, and a connoisseur A FEW GOOD REASONS TO HOARD SOME CASH NOW Posted by jasonzweig on Nov 11, 2013 in Blog, Columns | . By Jason Zweig | 7:12 pm ET Nov. 8, 2013 Image Credit: Christophe Vorlet. The stock market is near record highs. More money came into U.S. stock mutual funds the week of Oct. 23 than during any other week since2007.
HOW BERNIE MADOFF MADE SMART FOLKS LOOK DUMB Posted by jasonzweig on Dec 16, 2008 in Articles & Advice, Blog, Columns, Featured, Video | . Image Credit: Jan Pietersz. Saenredam, after Hendrick Goltzius, “The Fool” (ca. 1595), The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston By Jason Zweig | Dec. 13, 2008 11:59 p.m. ET What do George Carlin and Bernard Madoff have inJASON ZWEIG
There’s a reason the Oracle of Omaha is an ultrabillionaire as he turns 90: He grasped the power of compounding at the age of 10. The sooner the rest of us fully understand it, the better off we’ll be. This Fund Is Up 7,298% in 10 Years. You Don’t Want It. A leveraged fund that goes by its ticker, TQQQ, triples the daily upside of the BOOKS BY JASON ZWEIG Jason Zweig became a personal finance columnist for The Wall Street Journal in 2008. He was a senior writer for Money magazine and a guest columnist for Time magazine and cnn.com. He is the author of Your Money and Your Brain (Simon & Schuster, 2007), one of the first books to explore the neuroscience of investing. Zweig is also the editor of the revised edition of Benjamin Graham’s The THE SOUL OF AN INVESTOR The Soul of an Investor. Most of us manage our money the way St. Augustine prayed before he was fully ready to give up the pleasures of the flesh: “Make me virtuous, O Lord — but not yet.”. We’re always just about ready to save more, spend less, invest LEARNING FROM THE BEAR MARKET OF 1973-1974 Neff’s 31-year record of beating the market by more than three percentage points annually is unrivaled. After losing 25% in 1973 and 16.8% more in 1974, Neff gained 54.5% in 1975 and another 46.4% in 1976. “A noticeable portion of my cumulative outperformance,” says A GOLDEN OLDIE: THE BOGLEHEADS Posted by jasonzweig on Sep 18, 2014 in Blog, Posts | . Image credit: Wikipedia Creative Commons By Jason Zweig. 8 pm ET Sept. 18, 2014 (updated, but text not altered, 5 pm ET Nov. 29, 2015) By popular demand, I’m posting here the PDFs and full text of an article I wrote years ago: “Here Come the Bogleheads,” about the group of diehard Vanguard investors who revere John C. Bogle, the BACK TO THE FUTURE: LESSONS FROM THE FORGOTTEN ‘FLASH The 1962 flash crash stepped up public pressure on the SEC and Wall Street to clean up trading procedures. But by the summer of 1968, billions of dollars’ worth of trades were going astray every month, and the major stock exchanges had to close down on Wednesdays so brokers could get a midweek breather to catch up on processing delays. THE 19 QUESTIONS TO ASK YOUR FINANCIAL ADVISER Posted by jasonzweig on Aug 31, 2017 in Articles & Advice, Blog, Columns, Featured | . Image Credit: Christophe Vorlet By Jason Zweig | Aug. 25, 2017 5:30 am ET Getting all stockbrokers, financial planners and insurance agents to act in the best interests of their clients is a struggle that financial firms and their regulators still haven’tresolved.
“IN MEMORY OF MY FATHER” (BY AND FOR MY FATHER) Posted by jasonzweig on Dec 5, 2016 in Articles & Advice, Blog, Featured, Posts | . By Jason Zweig | Dec. 4, 2016 1:07 pm ET. Image credit: Irving J. Zweig (right), in 1961, with sons Stefan (left) and Jason (center) My father, Irving Zweig, was a farmer, a teacher, a war hero, a historian and political scientist, a newspaper editor and publisher, a semi-pro baseball player, and a connoisseur A FEW GOOD REASONS TO HOARD SOME CASH NOW So cash has climbed to roughly 43% of the fund’s $135 million in assets, up from 26% in 2011. Counting short-term corporate and foreign-government bonds, IVA International Fund has approximately 40% of its $3.3 billion of assets in cash and equivalents. “It’s rare for us to go to the levels you see today,” says Chuck de Lardemelle,co
HOW BERNIE MADOFF MADE SMART FOLKS LOOK DUMB The late comedian immortalized oxymorons, those absurd word pairs like “jumbo shrimp” and “military intelligence.”. Mr. Madoff just put the silliest of all financial oxymorons into the spotlight: “sophisticated investor.”. The accounts managed by Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC reported gains of roughly 1% a monthlike
BOOKS BY JASON ZWEIG Jason Zweig became a personal finance columnist for The Wall Street Journal in 2008. He was a senior writer for Money magazine and a guest columnist for Time magazine and cnn.com. He is the author of Your Money and Your Brain (Simon & Schuster, 2007), one of the first books to explore the neuroscience of investing. Zweig is also the editor of the revised edition of Benjamin Graham’s The “IN MEMORY OF MY FATHER” (BY AND FOR MY FATHER) Posted by jasonzweig on Dec 5, 2016 in Articles & Advice, Blog, Featured, Posts | . By Jason Zweig | Dec. 4, 2016 1:07 pm ET. Image credit: Irving J. Zweig (right), in 1961, with sons Stefan (left) and Jason (center) My father, Irving Zweig, was a farmer, a teacher, a war hero, a historian and political scientist, a newspaper editor and publisher, a semi-pro baseball player, and a connoisseur THE ART OF THE BUBBLE The building on whose crazy balcony the women stand in search of a lottery-winning husband is crowned with a huge rack of stag antlers, which symbolized lust and cuckoldry. In Greek and Latin myth, the goddess Diana transformed Actaeon, the hunter who who lusted afterher, into a
FALSE PROFITS
False Profits. By Jason Zweig | June 20, 2015 5:47 p.m. ET. One of my all-time favorite articles, this one (from 1999) triggered dozens of hate mails and an outpouring of criticism online, comparing me to people who deny evolution or the theory of relativity. My column was misquoted, apparently deliberately, in what seems to have been a lackof
INVESTING AND MURPHY’S LAW Investing and Murphy’s Law. By Jason Zweig | June 14, 2015 11:19 a.m. ET. Here’s a piece I wrote many years ago about Murphy’s Law and why investors so chronically end up on the wrong side of regression to the mean. Sooner or later, it happens to almosteveryone.
THE SPECIAL TRICK TO FIND THE RIGHT FINANCIAL ADVISER Then, take a moment to capture your intuition about how likable and trustworthy the adviser is. Don’t think hard or long: Just “close your eyes,” as Prof. Kahneman says, and quickly score your gut feelings about the person from 1 to 5. After you’ve interviewed at MURPHY WAS AN INVESTOR Murphy Was an Investor. Money Magazine, July 2002. Why does it seem that whatever can go wrong will go wrong? A few days ago, I met an investor who was downright distraught. “I watched Cisco for years,” he said, “and I kept refusing to buy the stock because Ithought it
NEW CAUSE FOR CAUTION ON STOCKS New Cause for Caution on Stocks. TIME Magazine, April 29, 2002. A few catchphrases sum up the 1990s: Bill Clinton’s “It depends on what the meaning of the word is is,” Forrest Gump’s “Life is like a box of chocolates” — and Jeremy Siegel’s “stocks for the long run.”. Siegel, 56, a WOULD BENJAMIN GRAHAM HAVE HATED INDEX FUNDS? The short answer: Benjamin Graham also believed in index funds, as his own statements show. Born in 1894, Graham died in 1976, barely a year after John C. Bogle and Vanguard Group launched the first index fund for individual investors. But the idea PHILIP CARRET: BUY ’EM CHEAP AND HOLD ’EM Each share that Carret bought at around $15 is now equal to 40 shares of Greif Bros. Co., worth $1,505. Carret doesn’t hold all his stocks for 48 years, but he really does hate to sell. By buying into Blue Chip Stamp Co. in 1968 he ended up with shares of A SAFE HAVEN FOR INVESTORS BY JASON ZWEIG OF THE WALL STREET JOURNAL.* Home
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