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Should Investors Chase After Bill Gross Again?

Should Investors Chase After Bill Gross Again?

Posted by on Sep 29, 2014 in Blog, Columns |

By Jason Zweig | 6:19 pm ET  Sept. 26, 2014 Bill Gross’s stunning departure from Pimco, the bond-fund giant he cofounded, on Friday reminded investors of something many of them might rather not know: Returns and performance sound like the same thing but can be drastically different. Returns in the fund business are often called “performance” for a reason....

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The Rise of Ultracheap Financial Advisers

The Rise of Ultracheap Financial Advisers

Posted by on Sep 22, 2014 in Blog, Columns |

By Jason Zweig | 4:26 pm ET  Sept. 19, 2014Image Credit: Christophe Vorlet In a world in which the expected long-term return of a stock portfolio after taxes and inflation is 3% to 4% a year at best, financial advisers still typically charge 1% a year for their services. Why, when you take all the risk, should your adviser take up to one-third of all the...

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A Golden Oldie: The Bogleheads

A Golden Oldie: The Bogleheads

Posted by on Sep 18, 2014 in Blog, Posts |

Image credit: Wikipedia Creative Commons   By Jason Zweig 8 pm ET  Sept. 18, 2014 (updated, but text not altered, 5 pm ET Nov. 29, 2015)   By popular demand, I’m posting here the PDFs and full text of an article I wrote years ago: “Here Come the Bogleheads,” about the group of diehard Vanguard investors who revere John C. Bogle,...

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If You Buy Alibaba, Be Ready for a Rough Ride

Posted by on Sep 18, 2014 in Blog, Columns |

By Jason Zweig | 6:38 pm ET  Sept. 15, 2014  It won’t be easy for individual investors to get a piece of Alibaba Group Holding as the Chinese Internet retailer sells up to $24 billion in shares this week in the most anticipated initial public offering of 2014. Anyone jumping in expecting a quick killing is apt to be disappointed. If you have money you can...

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