Image credit: “The Blue Boat (Ship of Fools),” Pieter van der Heyden, believed to be after Hieronymus Bosch, engraving, 1559, Rijksmuseum By Jason Zweig | July 2, 2015 9:14 p.m. ET This debate, relating to a column on performance hype that I wrote back in the Paleolithic Era of 1999, still might be worth reading, because it sheds light...
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Image credit: Detail, second title page for The Roman Owl-Mirror, 1671, archive.org By Jason Zweig | July 1, 2015 8:48 p.m. ET Here, from 1999, is my response to a reader’s question about the meaning of risk. Is it still valid today? That’s for you to decide. Mail Bag, Nov. 19, 1999 Dear Jason, When I’m trying to choose a fund, I...
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Image credit: “St. Jerome in His Study,” Master of Sir John Fastolf, ca. 1420-1450, The J. Paul Getty Museum By Jason Zweig | June 28, 2015 7:47 p.m. ET From time to time, people ask me whether they should write a book, and how. The last person who did, portfolio manager Ben Carlson, told me later that my advice had helped him as he put...
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