Anyone who has studied economics will be more than familiar with the name John Maynard Keynes. In last week’s Wall Street Journal, Jason Zweig reports that new research is offering…
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Change is Coming for Financial Advisers
It seems that artificial intelligence is useful for more than just Pokémon Go. According to Jason Zweig’s recent blog in The Wall Street Journal, financial advisers are increasingly using the…
Zweig on the Impact of Index Funds
Last month marked the fortieth birthday of the first index fund (launched by John Bogle, founder of the Vanguard Group) and the anniversary has triggered a lot of discussion and…
Sanity and Savings are Paramount for Today’s Investor
“Rates probably won’t rise until almost no one on earth is expecting them to. When that happens, it will hurt,” blogs Jason Zweig of The Wall Street Journal. Underscoring the…
Zweig: Avoid Higher Risk When Yields are Low
It seems that yield-starved investors are turning to high-risk investments in what Jason Zweig of The Wall Street Journal recently termed, “a reckless lunge.” Since June 30th, inflow to ETFs…
Zweig: Gold Is Not All That Glitters
In the summer of 2015, Jason Zweig wrote an article for The Wall Street Journal in which he claims that investing in gold (which was trading at around $1,130 an…
The Wall Street Journal’s Zweig Addresses Market Volatility
Investors often perceive the stock market as more volatile than it is, according to the latest newsletter from Matarin Capital Management (which oversees approximately $700 million in assets). In a…
Jason Zweig on Why Interest Rates Matter
When shopping for sale items, it’s customary to look at the price tag and see how much an item has been “marked-down”. You’d rather browse the “30% off” rack than…
Time to Bottom Feed Across the Pond
The U.S. stock market is expensive and bond yields aren’t far from record lows. European and emerging market stocks, on the other hand, have approached stomach-turning status, says Jason Zweig…
Forecasts are more like “Aftercasts”
New research illustrates how strongly the recent past influences investor expectations, as Wall Street Journal columnist Jason Zweig notes. Research by Professors William Goetzman, Robert Shiller, and Dasol Kim concluded,…