Image Credit: Heath Hinegardner By Jason Zweig | Jan. 24, 2009 12:01 a.m. ET Fish gotta swim, birds gotta fly and analysts and market strategists gotta try predicting what stocks will do every year. But you don’t gotta act on those predictions — at least not before you ask how likely they are to hit the bullseye. In December,...
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Image Credit: Heath Hinegardner By Jason Zweig | July 18, 2009 11:59 p.m. ET Based on recent headlines, you might think that Americans are finally saving again. Want to bet? In 2007, the latest year for which final numbers are available, Americans spent $92.3 billion on legalized gambling, according to Christiansen Capital Advisors; that same year, says...
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Image Credit: Heath Hinegardner By Jason Zweig | Jan. 17, 2009 11:59 p.m. ET The ideal investment portfolio is solid and liquid at the same time. Perhaps because this principle defies the common sense of physics, even some of the world’s biggest investors have overlooked it. Now, with billions of dollars trapped in illiquid investments, many...
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Image Credit: Heath Hinegardner By Jason Zweig | Jan. 3, 2009 12:01 a.m. ET If you think it is hard to stick to your New Year’s resolutions, consider how some of the investing world’s leading experts don’t always take their own advice. Often, they diversify by the seat of their pants, fail to adjust their portfolios to changing...
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