Image Credit: Christophe Vorlet By Jason Zweig | Jan. 13, 2017 11:18 am ET One of the world’s hottest assets is also the newest way to invest for retirement. But it carries the most old-fashioned risk of all: losing buckets of money in the blink of an eye. Since last June, Bitcoin IRA, a firm based in Sherman Oaks, Calif., has been offering Individual...
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By Jason Zweig | Jan. 11, 2017 10:41 am ET Image credit: “The Auction,” Robert Spencer (ca. 1918), The Phillips Collection Ever since 1940, mutual-fund commissions have been non-negotiable. That could soon change. Capital Group Cos. of Los Angeles, which runs $1.4 trillion largely in mutual funds, got approval from the Securities and...
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By Jason Zweig | Jan. 11, 2017 10:41 am ET Image credit: “A dog plays on a seesaw with children in Scotland,” photograph by William Reid (1919), Wikimedia Commons My column this past weekend looked at “fulcrum fees,” a way mutual funds can charge more when they outperform if (but only if) they charge less when they underperform. At a time when...
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By Jason Zweig | Jan. 11, 2017, 9:29 pm ET Image credit: “A Television Transmitter” (1930), Library of Congress Here, by popular demand, I’m posting one of my favorite pages from the edition I edited of Benjamin Graham’s The Intelligent Investor. Further comment would be superfluous. © Jason Zweig and HarperBusiness, 2003....
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Image Credit: Christophe Vorlet By Jason Zweig | Jan. 6, 2017 10:59 am ET Let’s make a deal. You give me your money, and I’ll invest it in the stock market. You take all the risk, and I’ll give you the reward. Well, most of it. Every year, I’ll collect 1% from you, even if you lose money on my stock picks. That 1% is as much as one-fourth of the expected...
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