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How to Ignore the Yes-Man in Your Head

How to Ignore the Yes-Man in Your Head

Posted by on Nov 22, 2009 in Articles & Advice, Blog, Columns, Featured, Video |

Image Credit: Heath Hinegardner By Jason Zweig |  Nov. 19, 2009 12:01 a.m. ET A mind is a terrible thing to change. You decide gold is a good bet to hedge against inflation, and suddenly the news seems to be teeming with signs of a falling dollar and rising prices down the road. Or you believe stocks are going to outperform other assets, and all you can...

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Can Angel Investors Earn Heavenly Returns?

Posted by on Nov 3, 2009 in Blog, Columns, Featured |

By Jason Zweig | Oct. 31, 2009  12:01 a.m. ETImage Credit: Heath Hinegardner This may be the best time in years for an investor to become an angel. But that doesn’t mean you should rush out to get yourself fitted for wings and a halo. An angel investor is anyone who privately provides capital to a promising business, often a start-up, that...

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Take Off the Blinders When It Comes to Fees

Take Off the Blinders When It Comes to Fees

Posted by on Oct 23, 2009 in Articles & Advice, Blog, Columns, Featured, Video |

Image Credit: Heath Hinegardner     By Jason Zweig |  Oct. 20, 2009 12:01 a.m. ET In the mad dash to buy bond funds — about $200 billion so far this year — investors are overlooking fees. Most of the new bond money is going not into dirt-cheap index funds, but into far more expensive, actively managed portfolios. The average annual cost of...

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Don’t Let a Market Crash Hit You at the Finish Line

Don’t Let a Market Crash Hit You at the Finish Line

Posted by on Oct 17, 2009 in Blog, Columns, Featured |

By Jason Zweig | Oct. 14, 2009  12:01 a.m. ETImage Credit: Heath Hinegardner Can you make the risk of stocks go away just by owning them long enough? Many investors still think so. “Over any 20-year period in history, in any market, an equity portfolio has outperformed a fixed-income portfolio,” one reader recently emailed me. “Warren...

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