Funds are pouring into emerging market funds, with one-twelfth of total holdings having come in over the past 90 days, writes Jason Zweig of The Wall Street Journal. Presumably, he…
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WSJ's Jason Zweig on American Capitalism
The notion of capitalism as a mechanism in which “fat and happy” companies become acquisition targets is changing, writes Jason Zweig in last week’s Wall Street Journal. Zweig cites new…
Zweig: Guard Against Following the Herd
Given the market’s currently stretched valuations, optimistic investors should be on their guard, says Jason Zweig of The Wall Street Journal. Zweig discusses new findings that show how the confidence…
Zweig Says Fees Should be Linked to Performance
The practice by many fund managers of charging flat fees to clients regardless of their performance isn’t fair to investors, says Jason Zweig of The Wall Street Journal. The tides…
Jason Zweig on Investing Fact Versus Fiction
The human mind seeks to “confirm its pre-existing beliefs while ignoring warning signs that we might be wrong,” writes Jason Zweig of The Wall Street Journal. He uses the example…
Zweig on Investing Vs. Speculating
Every asset, writes Jason Zweig of The Wall Street Journal, “is an investment in some people’s hands and a speculation in others’. So it isn’t what you buy, but rather…
Zweig's Market Survival Guide
There’s a lot of talk among investors about beating the market, but in a recent Wall Street Journal article Jason Zweig suggests that many overlook the challenge of merely surviving…
When Taken by Surprise, Wait it Out
“Little is ever clear about an incoming president, and no more than usual—perhaps less—is clear about this one,” says Jason Zweig of The Wall Street Journal. In yesterday’s “Moneybeat”, Zweig…
Zweig on Closet Indexing & Active Share
For many years, argues Jason Zweig in last month’s Wall Street Journal, “many fund managers haven’t done much managing at all.” Instead, he writes, they track market indices and “buy…
Fidelity's Contrafund: One Manager's Mission
Will Danoff, the manager of Fidelity’s $108 billion Contrafund– the biggest actively managed stock or bond mutual fund run by a single person—believes that “humans have fundamental investing advantages that…