Image credit: “New York, New Haven and Hartford Locomotive No. 321 crash through roundhouse,” 1905, The DeGolyer Library, Southern Methodist University By Jason Zweig | June 20, 2015 5:47 p.m. ET Here’s another speech from my archives, in which I suggested that many people who try to apply psychological findings to the financial...
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Image credit: “The Competition in Sittacene and the Placating of Sisigambis,” attr. Master of the Jardin de Vertuese Consolation, Flemish, ca. 1470-1475, detail, The J. Paul Getty Museum By Jason Zweig | June 17, 2015 10:04 p.m. ET Combing through my archives the other day, I came across a speech I gave in October 1999 to the Foundation...
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Image credit: William Heath, “Dutch steamers on the frozen Zuyder Zee,” etching, 1829, Rijksmuseum By Jason Zweig | June 16, 2015 9:19 p.m. ET This speech, which I gave as the keynote address at the Morningstar Investment Conference in 2001, is hard to find online, so I’m making it available again here. In it, I argued that the future...
Read MoreImage credit: Istolethetv, “Bad Luck,” photo, Flickr Creative Commons By Jason Zweig | June 14, 2015 11:19 a.m. ET Here’s a piece I wrote many years ago about Murphy’s Law and why investors so chronically end up on the wrong side of regression to the mean. Sooner or later, it happens to almost everyone. To download PDF, click...
Read MoreImage Credit: Christophe Vorlet By Jason Zweig | 11:52 am ET June 12, 2015 This past week, the biggest public pension fund in the U.S., the California Public Employees’ Retirement System, or Calpers, said it plans to cut the number of outside money managers it uses to approximately 100 from 212. That move came after Calpers announced last year that it...
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