Image Credit: Christophe Vorlet By Jason Zweig | Nov. 11, 2016 11:06 am ET Everyone knows beating the market is hard. What many investors still don’t seem to realize is that even surviving the market is hard. Of the 525 U.S. stock mutual funds that existed thirty years ago, 223 are still operating today, according to Morningstar; only six are still run by...
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By Jason Zweig | Nov. 12, 2016 9:07 pm ET Image credit: Warren Buffett, at the White House (2010), Wikimedia Commons Few things amaze me more about the investment-management business than the pathetically small number of firms that have emulated Warren Buffett — not merely in how he invests, but more importantly in how he treats his investors. There...
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Image Credit: This is clearly a foggy window, Pixabay By Jason Zweig | Nov. 9, 2016 12:43 pm ET A time of political shock isn’t a time for investing action. Instead, it is a time to watch and wait. The worst possible moment to make clear and durable decisions is when you are surprised by what just happened. Regardless of whom you supported for...
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By Jason Zweig | Nov. 11, 2016 9:07 pm ET Image credit: Joseph Mallord William Turner, “The Fighting Temeraire” (1839), National Gallery, London Of all the interviews I’ve done with John C. Bogle, founder of the Vanguard Group, since we first met in 1993, this one — in which he talks about how his many brushes with death have given...
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By Jason Zweig | Nov. 11, 2016 8:07 pm ET Image credit: “Personification of the virtue Patience” (Germany, ca. 1450-60), detail, Manuscript M. 782, Morgan Library My column this weekend in The Wall Street Journal reminded me of something I wrote years ago. The research has advanced since then, but I think the basic points are still valid....
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