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Aging Bull: The 107-Year-Old Stock Picker

Posted by on Dec 25, 2012 in Blog, Columns, Featured |

By Jason Zweig | Dec. 21, 2012 4:27 p.m. ET Image credit: Hans Sebald Beham, “Patientia (Patience),” engraving, 1540; Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam When you get the chance to learn from someone with 84 years of investment experience, you should take it. The day before he celebrated his 107th birthday, I spoke with Irving Kahn, chairman of Kahn...

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The Big Corruption in Small Gifts

The Big Corruption in Small Gifts

Posted by on Dec 24, 2012 in Blog, Featured, Posts |

  Photo credit: Georges de la Tour, “The Fortune Teller,” ca. 1630, Metropolitan Museum of Art   By Jason Zweig 10:34 am ET  Dec. 21, 2012     Giveaways, gifts, freebies, premiums, promos, tchotchkes, swag. Every year around this time, it pours in: the pens with corporate logos, the canisters of flavored popcorn, the iTunes gift...

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Was Benjamin Graham Skillful or Lucky?

Was Benjamin Graham Skillful or Lucky?

Posted by on Dec 16, 2012 in Articles & Advice, Blog, Featured |

Image Credit: “Gambling,” photo, ca. 1900, Library of Congress By Jason Zweig | 1:17 pm ET  Dec. 13, 2012   Last weekend’s Intelligent Investor column looked at the extreme difficulties of disentangling skill from luck when you are evaluating investment performance. It’s the topic of an excellent new book by Michael Mauboussin and a...

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Are You Brilliant, or Lucky?

Are You Brilliant, or Lucky?

Posted by on Dec 10, 2012 in Articles & Advice, Blog, Books, Columns, Featured |

Image Credit: Christophe Vorlet By Jason Zweig | Dec. 7, 2012  7:48 p.m. ET Have investors finally learned that past performance doesn’t guarantee future results? You might think so. Investors are dumping mutual funds run by fallible stock pickers and replacing them with index and exchange-traded funds—”passive” portfolios that mimic the...

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