While fund managers often say they add value for investors in smaller, lesser known markets because those markets are inefficient, The Wall Street Journal’s Jason Zweig says the data shows…
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More Evidence that Correlations Haven't Really Changed
Recently we highlighted an article from Mark Hulbert that detailed why talk of a new era of higher correlations among stocks is misguided. Now, The Wall Street Journal’s Jason Zweig…
Zweig on the "Optimism Bias"
On the Wall Street Journal’s “Total Return” blog, Jason Zweig highlights research that indicates human beings have an “optimism bias” — that is, we learn more from our successes than we…
The Not-So-New Macro Investing World
For investors, much of the decade since the September 11 attacks seems to have been dominated by an unprecedented slew of troubling macroeconomic issues: terrorism fears, a financial crisis, natural…
Zweig: Market Is Cheaper -- But Not Cheap
The recent downturn in the stock market has made stocks significantly cheaper than they were before — but they’re not yet “cheap”, according to The Wall Street Journal’s Jason Zweig.…
Don't Forget The Dividends -- And Inflation
Investors may spend a lot of time fretting over whether their portfolios are going up or down. But, despite all of the advances in stock market data availability, many may…
Dividends and "Corporate Scrooges": WWBGD (What Would Ben Graham Do)?
While U.S. companies have been raking in big profits since the end of the Great Recession, much of those profits are staying locked up on corporate balance sheets. And, in…
Battling Your Brain: How Loss Aversion Hurts Investors
Human beings are prone to a variety of behaviors that make them bad investors, and in an article for The Economic Times, Vivek Kaul looks at a major one: “loss…
Why Corporate Cash Isn't Helping Investors
Investors have been hearing for some time now about the hordes of cash being stashed on U.S. corporate balance sheets. In a recent column, The Wall Street Journal’s Jason Zweig…
Zweig on Cloudy Forecasts
While scores of analysts and strategists have been offering their 2011 forecasts about how much the S&P 500 will gain or lose, how much gross domestic product will grow or…