By Jason Zweig, Anne Tergesen and Andrea Fuller | July 26, 2017 4:06 p.m. ET Image credit: Toll gate, Sydney Harbour Bridge (1932), State Library of New South Wales, Wikimedia Commons Automation is threatening one of the most personal businesses in personal finance: advice. Over the past decade, financial advisers in brokerage houses and independent...
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By Jason Zweig | July 24, 2017 10:13 pm ET Image credit: John William Waterhouse, “Ulysses and the Sirens” (1891), National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne So far as I know, no one has yet completely cracked the difficult problem of how to get people who say they are long-term investors to be long-term investors. Most people who claim to...
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Image Credit: Christophe Vorlet By Jason Zweig | July 21, 2017 10:43 am ET One of the oldest adages on Wall Street is that investors are always worried about something. This summer, the markets are writing a corollary to that old rule: When investors can’t find anything worth worrying about, they worry about why no one seems to be worrying...
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By Jason Zweig | July 19, 2017 9:17 pm ET Image credit: John Martin, “The Great Day of His Wrath” (1851-1853), Tate Britain Like most people who write for a living, I have fierce convictions about the right and wrong ways to use words. Most of the time I keep them to myself; nobody likes being nagged by a grammar nanny. It’s boring and...
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Image Credit: Christophe Vorlet By Jason Zweig | July 14, 2017 1:37 pm ET The perennial question about company stock in 401(k) and other retirement plans is timely again. On June 15 and 16, shares in Kroger, the Cincinnati-based supermarket holding company, fell more than 26%, largely on the news that Amazon.com Inc. would expand in the...
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