By Jason Zweig | May 30, 2017 8:13 pm ET Image credit: Jozef Israels, “A Fisher-Girl on a Dunetop Overlooking the Sea” (ca. 1900), Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza Here, from my archives, is one of the many articles I’ve written on calibrating your expectations — usually downward. It still has lessons for today, I think. As G.K....
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By Jason Zweig | May 29, 2017 10:13 pm ET Image credit: Pixabay Here, from my archives, is one of the earliest articles I wrote on bizarre investing costs — in which a clever financial planner figured out how to enable his estate to continue to collect 12b-1 fees on his clients’ mutual funds even after he died. Not long afterward, I received...
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By Jason Zweig | May 26, 2017 12:13 pm ET Image credit: Thomas Phillips, “David Ricardo” (ca. 1821), National Portrait Gallery, London, Wikimedia Commons One of the greatest economists who ever lived was also one of the earliest — and most successful — quants. David Ricardo (1772-1823) developed principles of trade and monetary...
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Image Credit: Christophe Vorlet By Jason Zweig | May 26, 2017 You may already trust algorithms, or mathematical formulas that reduce the need for human judgment, more than you realize. Commercial airliners fly largely, and safely, on autopilot; Netflix Inc. and Amazon.com Inc. recommend purchases that can seem uncannily attuned to your tastes. Why not...
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Image Credit: Christophe Vorlet By Jason Zweig | May 19, 2017 9:08 am ET Volatility is back — but the latest way of trying to make money off it is wildly risky. Until this past Wednesday, the S&P 500 had gone for 15 days in a row without moving up or down by more than 0.5% — the longest such streak, according to WSJ Market Data Group,...
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