Photo credit: Nazareth College, “Jump for Joy,” Creative Commons By Karen Damato, Jason Zweig and Jonathan Clements |8:57 am ET Apr. 15, 2015 Today’s college students and recent grads face greater financial pressures than earlier generations because so many are leaving school with heavy debt burdens. And once they are in in the...
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Image Credit: Christophe Vorlet By Jason Zweig |10:15 am ET Apr. 10, 2015 Have investors finally started to get their hyperactivity under control? According to the New York Stock Exchange, annualized turnover—the rate at which stocks are bought and sold—is down to 63% from a high of 110% in 2010. With a 100% annual turnover rate equal to a holding period...
Read MoreAnother Note on Benjamin Graham and Index Funds
Photo credit: “Flaw in the Title,” engraving, Samuel Hollyer after William Holbrook Beard, 1871. Library of Congress By Jason Zweig | Apr. 6, 2015 9 p.m. ET My post last week about Benjamin Graham’s views on index funds turned out to be popular; as I showed, the father of modern security analysis and founder of the discipline of value...
Read MoreWould Benjamin Graham Have Hated Index Funds?
Image credit: “The Alchemist,” engraving, Pieter van der Borcht the Elder and Philips Galle, after Pieter Breugel the Elder, ca. 1558-1608, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam By Jason Zweig 12:22 pm ET Apr. 3, 2015 My Intelligent Investor column this weekend looks at the question of whether the rush of money into index funds could undermine the efficiency...
Read MoreInvesting in Stocks Against the Indexing Goliath
Image Credit: Christophe Vorlet By Jason Zweig | 11:44 am ET Apr. 3, 2015 Have index funds become so popular that they are ruining the financial markets for everyone else? These autopilot portfolios, which buy and hold essentially all the securities in a market index without even trying to find the best and avoid the worst, have become the giants of the...
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