Image Credit: Christophe Vorlet By Jason Zweig | Aug. 25, 2017 5:30 am ET Getting all stockbrokers, financial planners and insurance agents to act in the best interests of their clients is a struggle that financial firms and their regulators still haven’t resolved. That should be their job — but for now, it’s yours. The obligation of those...
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Image Credit: Christophe Vorlet By Jason Zweig | Aug. 18, 2017 12:36 pm ET With luck, it may soon become a little harder for companies to keep investors in the dark. The Securities and Exchange Commission is considering whether to adopt a rule proposed by the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board that would require companies’ annual...
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By Jason Zweig | August 20, 2017 9:10 p.m. ET Image credit: Francis Barraud, “Nipper Listening to His Master’s Voice” (1898), Wikimedia Commons I’ve done a few fun podcasts are radio appearances recently. Here they are in case you’d like to listen. “Watching Your Wealth,” with my Wall Street Journal colleague...
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By Jason Zweig | August 14, 2017 8:40 p.m. ET Image credit: J.P. Morgan blowing “A Dangerous Bubble,” J.S. Pughe, Puck Magazine (Oct. 22, 1902), Library of Congress Asset managers have more ways to manipulate returns for marketing purposes than most clients can even imagine — above all, by pretending that sheer luck is the product of...
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Image Credit: Christophe Vorlet By Jason Zweig | Aug. 11, 2017 9:28 am ET How’s this for an investing optical illusion? As of June 30, according to S&P Dow Jones Indices, the stocks in the S&P 500 index traded at a price/earnings ratio of 23.56 — meaning that their combined price was almost 24 times the net earnings all those...
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