Image Credit: Christophe Vorlet By Jason Zweig | Dec. 22, 2017 11:31 am ET What a difference a rate makes. With the signing of the new tax bill into law, the value of some funds investing in energy stocks will go haywire, shooting up by 10% or more…. To read the rest of the column: The Wall Street Journal, With the signing of the new tax...
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By Jason Zweig | Dec. 24, 2017 4:17 p.m. ET Image credit: Martin Johnson Heade, “Florida Sunrise” (ca. 1890), The White House, via Google Art Project / Wikimedia Commons Here’s a guest post on Medium I wrote for a roundtable discussion on NewsPicks, the business-news curation service. Dec. 21, 2017 Earlier this month, Vanguard...
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By Jason Zweig | Dec. 20, 2017 8:55 p.m. ET Image credit: Pieter Bruegel the Elder, “The Battle About Money” (engraving by Pieter van der Heyden), ca. 1570, Metropolitan Museum of Art Here, from a decade ago, is a piece on why investors underperform their investments. As I look back on it, I think it suffers from the same logical flaw...
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Image Credit: Christophe Vorlet By Jason Zweig | Dec. 15, 2017 10:59 am ET With the U.S. stock market brushing all-time highs again this week, many investors are chasing further gains — and some are trying to truncate potential losses. You can do that with what’s called a fixed indexed annuity, a cross between an insurance contract and a...
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By Jason Zweig | Dec. 14, 2017 11:01 a.m. ET Image credit: John Quidor, “The Return of Rip van Winkle” (1849), National Gallery of Art Just about everybody claims to be a long-term investor, even though most professional and individual investors seem to have about as much patience as a bunch of teenagers competing in a Red Bull...
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