Image Credit: Christophe Vorlet By Jason Zweig | Apr. 1, 2016 1:02 pm ET It’s still your job, not the government’s, to protect your retirement savings. Under new rules imposed this past week by the Department of Labor, anyone being paid to provide specific investment advice on retirement accounts must do the right thing for his or her clients. While the...
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Image credit: Beauty parlor, Tallahassee, Florida, 1962, State Library and Archives of Florida By Jason Zweig | April 4, 2016 5:30 a.m. ET My column this weekend points out that in an online survey of nearly 500 investors last month, 51% said — incorrectly — that brokers must always act as fiduciaries. Only 44% correctly said that about investment...
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By Jason Zweig | April 7, 2016 Image credit: Fritzi Scheff demonstrating Magnavox for Liberty Loan drive, ca. 1919, Wikimedia Commons I went on The Brian Lehrer Show on public radio to talk about the U.S. Department of Labor’s new regulations on fiduciary duty for brokers giving investment advice on retirement accounts. Listeners called in...
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Image credit: Thomas Cole, “The Voyage of Life: Old Age” (1842), National Gallery of Art By Jason Zweig | April 4, 2016 5:30 a.m. ET New rules aimed at stockbrokers will have enormous impacts on the way Americans save for retirement. The rules aren’t coming from the government’s financial regulatory apparatus but from the Labor Department....
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By Jason Zweig | Apr. 5, 2016 Image credit: Detail, “Trumpet Player in Front of a Banquet,” Gerrit Dou, ca. 1665, The Louvre, via Wikimedia Commons It was my great pleasure to be invited to the Googleplex in March 2016 to speak about The Devil’s Financial Dictionary and The Intelligent Investor. I talked about the lessons investors...
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