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...
Read MoreBy 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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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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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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Image credit: Joannes Bemme, “Study of a hand,” drawing, 1813, Rijksmuseum By Jason Zweig | Sept. 11, 2009 11:04 p.m. ET From my perch, what seems to be on top of many people’s minds is whether buy-and-hold is dead. After a decade in which stocks have gone nowhere and at least a quarter-century in which stocks have been...
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