By Jason Zweig | 9:19 pm ET May 23, 2014Image Credit: Christophe Vorlet If you set out deliberately and systematically to remake yourself into a great investor, how would you go about it? That is what the money manager Guy Spier has spent much of the past 17 years trying to figure out. He believes that most investors pay attention to the wrong things and...
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By Jason Zweig | 6:18 pm ET May 16, 2014Image Credit: Christophe Vorlet On Wednesday, the respected hedge-fund manager David Tepper, who runs $20 billion at Appaloosa Management, told an investing conference that “the market is kind of dangerous right now.…I’m nervous. I think it’s nervous time right now.” That’s for sure. The Dow Jones Industrial Average...
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By Jason Zweig | 6:09 pm ET May 9, 2014Image Credit: Christophe Vorlet Investors may not be as stupid as some researchers think, but they still need to fight their own fear and greed. A new study finds that the average investor in all U.S. stock funds earned 3.7% annually over the past 30 years—a period in which the S&P 500 stock index returned 11.1%...
Read MoreBy Jason Zweig | 6:00 pm ET May 2, 2014Image Credit: Christophe Vorlet In December, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, which oversees how investments are sold, proposed what it calls Cards, an electronic system that would regularly collect data on balances and transactions in brokerage accounts. If adopted, Cards would revolutionize how...
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