The Wall Street Journal’s Jason Zweig says many money managers are failing to use a fairly simple tactic — portfolio rebalancing — that could be costing clients a good deal…
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Why Following the Herd Is Like Sex and Candy for Investors
Why do investors tend to move in herds, buying when others buy and selling when others sell? According to a new study, it’s because of biology. The study, detailed by…
Zweig: Time to Sit Tight -- or Tip-Toe into Euro Stocks
While Europe is getting a lot of attention for its debt problems, Wall Street Journal columnist Jason Zweig says the U.S. may be in worse financial condition than many of…
What an Inefficient Market Means for Investors
In his latest Wall Street Journal column, Jason Zweig offers an interesting take on the efficient market hypothesis, channeling the late, great Benjamin Graham for guidance. Zweig says that while…
Avoid "Confirmation Bias"
In his latest Wall Street Journal column, Jason Zweig discusses one of the behavioral pitfalls that can drag down many investors’ portfolios: confirmation bias. What is confirmation bias? “In short,”…
J. Zweig & Taleb on Where Investors Go Wrong
Consuelo Mack has two very interesting interviews on WealthTrack this week, talking investing and psychology with both Wall Street Journal columnist Jason Zweig and Black Swan author Nassim Taleb. Zweig,…
Beating the Timing Temptation
As Liz Ann Sonders notes in the posting below, a lot of investors are now wondering whether it’s too late to jump into the market, or, for those who have…
Siegel Fires Back on Long-Term Data
Last month, we highlighted Wall Street Journal columnist Jason Zweig’s criticism of the long-term stock return data that Jeremy Siegel has used in his book, Stocks for the Long Run.…
Zweig vs. Siegel on Long-Term Return Data
The Wall Street Journal’s Jason Zweig is taking Jeremy Siegel to task for the data Siegel uses in his Stocks for the Long Run, an often quoted resource for buy-and-hold…
Zweig: WWGD? (What Would Graham Do?)
Writing sixty years to the day after Benjamin Graham’s classic The Intelligent Investor was published, Jason Zweig says that Graham would be cautious amid a market like this one. “Today…