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Everything Is More Expensive Than It Looks

Everything Is More Expensive Than It Looks

Posted by on Jun 20, 2016 in Articles & Advice, Blog, Columns, Featured |

Image Credit: Christophe Vorlet By Jason Zweig |  June 17, 2016 3:23 pm ET The yield on the 10-year Treasury sank beneath 1.6% this past week, within spitting distance of its record low of 1.4% in July 2012. How much should that change your estimates of what stocks and other assets are worth? The impact of interest rates on stock prices might sound...

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Shareholders Are Disappearing Before Our Eyes

Shareholders Are Disappearing Before Our Eyes

Posted by on Jun 14, 2016 in Articles & Advice, Blog, Columns, Featured |

Image Credit: Christophe Vorlet By Jason Zweig |  June 10, 2016 10:24 am ET In the stock market, more ownership seems to be concentrated in fewer hands all the time. That’s been a worry for at least a century, since Louis Brandeis wrote his book “Other People’s Money.” But today’s financial technology has created an improbable scenario under which...

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The Key to the Best Financial Advice: ‘Humility in Large Doses’

The Key to the Best Financial Advice: ‘Humility in Large Doses’

Posted by on Jun 6, 2016 in Articles & Advice, Blog, Columns, Featured |

Image Credit: Christophe Vorlet By Jason Zweig |  June 3, 2016  1:39 pm ET Financial advisers like to say the good ones are worth their weight in gold. Not so fast. If men tilt the scales at about 170 pounds and women at roughly 140 pounds, and with gold around $1,210 per ounce, that would value the typical financial adviser somewhere around $3 million....

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AdvisorShares Raises Eyebrows With Cutting of TrimTabs

AdvisorShares Raises Eyebrows With Cutting of TrimTabs

Posted by on Jun 6, 2016 in Articles & Advice, Blog, Featured, Posts, Radio & Podcasts |

By Jason Zweig | June 3, 2016 3:57 pm ET Image credit: Winslow Homer, “The Veteran in a New Field” (1865), the Metropolitan Museum of Art   It isn’t often that fund managers get fired for poor performance, and it is almost unheard of for them to get the axe amid good performance — but that appears to have happened at one firm. On May 26,...

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