Image Credit: Christophe Vorlet By Jason Zweig | Oct. 22, 2012 12:28 p.m. ET Over the next few weeks, investors will be bombarded with commentary about how the outcome of the presidential election will influence the financial markets. Before you even consider changing your portfolio based on the expected—or actual—results of the election, it’s...
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By Jason Zweig | Oct. 15, 2012 6:20 p.m. ET Image credit: Pixabay Exchange-traded funds have quickly become one of the cheapest and simplest investing tools in the world. They also are the raw material for an increasingly popular but potentially expensive and confusing way to invest. An ETF is a basket of stocks, bonds or other assets that trades...
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By Jason Zweig | Oct. 5, 2012 5:41 p.m. ETImage Credit: Christophe Vorlet The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority is examining how major investment banks and brokerage firms define and manage conflicts of interest between themselves and their clients. Will the first systematic look at conflicts on Wall Street in years make a difference for investors?...
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By Jason Zweig | Sept. 27, 2012 12:30 pm ET Image credit: Rembrandt, “Judas, Repentant, Returning the 30 Pieces of Silver” (1629), private collection, Wikimedia Commons The British parliamentary commission investigating the Libor rate-fixing scandal and other banking misdeeds recently requested comments from the public on how to reform...
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By Jason Zweig | original source: Sept. 21, 2012 In this interview with the excellent British website FiveBooks.com, I talked about five of my favorite books on investing and personal finance. Picking only five is almost impossible, of course; for some of my other lists, see here and here. In posting this, I noticed I’d used the word...
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