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Talk Is Cheap: Automation Takes Aim at Financial Advisers—and Their Fees

Talk Is Cheap: Automation Takes Aim at Financial Advisers—and Their Fees

Posted by on Jul 29, 2017 in Articles & Advice, Blog, Featured, Posts |

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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Tie Me Down and Make Me Rich

Tie Me Down and Make Me Rich

Posted by on Jul 24, 2017 in Articles & Advice, Blog, Featured, Posts |

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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Investors, Stop Worrying About Why ‘Nobody’ Is Worrying

Investors, Stop Worrying About Why ‘Nobody’ Is Worrying

Posted by on Jul 24, 2017 in Articles & Advice, Blog, Columns, Featured |

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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Why I Hate Adverbs

Why I Hate Adverbs

Posted by on Jul 19, 2017 in Articles & Advice, Blog, Featured, Posts |

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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How Much of Your Company’s Stock Is Too Much?

How Much of Your Company’s Stock Is Too Much?

Posted by on Jul 17, 2017 in Articles & Advice, Blog, Columns, Featured |

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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