By Jason Zweig | Nov. 12, 2016 9:07 pm ET Image credit: Edvard Munch, “Summer Night’s Dream (The Voice)” (1893), Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, via Wikimedia Commons I was recently reminded at a behavioral finance conference that a chapter excerpted from my book Your Money and Your Brain is available with the publisher’s permission as...
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By Jason Zweig | Nov. 12, 2016 9:07 pm ET Image credit: William Blake Richmond, “Phaëton and the Horses of the Sun,” Warwick Museums, ArtUK.org I’ve been writing for two decades about the tragedy of the gap between the returns that investments earn and the returns their investors earn. Here’s one early look at that issue (source:...
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Image Credit: Christophe Vorlet By Jason Zweig | Nov. 11, 2016 11:06 am ET Everyone knows beating the market is hard. What many investors still don’t seem to realize is that even surviving the market is hard. Of the 525 U.S. stock mutual funds that existed thirty years ago, 223 are still operating today, according to Morningstar; only six are still run by...
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By Jason Zweig | Nov. 12, 2016 9:07 pm ET Image credit: Warren Buffett, at the White House (2010), Wikimedia Commons Few things amaze me more about the investment-management business than the pathetically small number of firms that have emulated Warren Buffett — not merely in how he invests, but more importantly in how he treats his investors. There...
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Image Credit: This is clearly a foggy window, Pixabay By Jason Zweig | Nov. 9, 2016 12:43 pm ET A time of political shock isn’t a time for investing action. Instead, it is a time to watch and wait. The worst possible moment to make clear and durable decisions is when you are surprised by what just happened. Regardless of whom you supported for...
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