In a recent Wall Street Journal article, columnist Jason Zweig explains how investing in commodities can pay off. Even though assets like oil and gas, corn, wheat, hogs and nickel…
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Stock Market Needs 'Knights of Faith'
In a recent Wall Street Journal article, columnist Jason Zweig argues that it’s now easier for investors to recover losses after a market dip due to lower trading costs and…
Testing the Buy-and-Hold Gospel
A recent Wall Street Journal article by columnist Jason Zweig dispels myths regarding history’s market crashes and offers insights regarding how they relate to today’s market and to a “buy-and-hold”…
Some Investors Turning to God as Portfolio Manager
“Biblically responsible investing, or BRI, is booming as investment managers who are losing assets to index fund strive to find new niches,” writes columnist Jason Zweig in a recent article…
What Makes the Smart Money Smart
New studies show that the “so-called smart money is prone to many of the same errors as amateurs,” writes Wall Street Journalcolumnist Jason Zweig. Professional investors, he argues, “rack up…
Zweig: Think Before Buying Chinese Stocks
In a recent article for The Wall Street Journal, columnist Jason Zweig argues that although many U.S. investors appear to be increasing their exposure to China (hoping for high returns…
What Would Benjamin Graham Make of Today's Market?
Although value stocks have lagged for a long time, an article by Wall Street Journal columnist Jason Zweig argues that the strategy’s champion, Benjamin Graham, still had the right idea.…
A Dinner with Charlie Munger
In an article for The Wall Street Journal, columnist Jason Zweig recounted a dinner with Berkshire Hathaway vice chairman Charlie Munger. Describing Warren Buffett’s 95 year-old business partner as a…
Individual Investors May Not Be "Dumb Money" After All
In a recent article for The Wall Street Journal, columnist Jason Zweig writes, “Bit by bit, the myth of the ‘dumb money’ is dying.” Although Wall Street has long characterized…
Zweig on Investing and Socializing
Wall Street Journal columnist Jason Zweig reported that newly released data from Riskalyze (a California-based firm) reveals state-by-state patterns in investor risk tolerance—using responses from more than 458,000 clients of…