By Jason Zweig | Sept. 26, 2017 8:22 p.m. ET Image credit: “St. George Slaying the Dragon” (Fol. 153v, ca. 1475), Manuscript M.1001, Pierpont Morgan Library I’m pretty sure this article, from 1995, is the first I ever wrote about Vanguard, although I’d met Jack Bogle at least two years earlier. I’d write it differently...
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By Jason Zweig | Sept. 25, 2017 9:37 p.m. ET Image credit: Elihu Vedder, “The Questioner of the Sphinx” (1863) Museum of Fine Arts, Boston I traveled around the world and realized how little I knew. I traveled around the world and realized how little I knew about the places where I had never been. I traveled around the world and...
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Image Credit: Christophe Vorlet By Jason Zweig | Sept. 22, 2017 11:02 am ET Bonds have been in a bull market for most of the past 35 years or so. Many investors are still buying, but they aren’t chasing past performance. In August, more than 90% of the $30 billion that flowed into all mutual funds and exchange-traded funds went into...
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By Jason Zweig | Sept. 18, 2017 8:22 p.m. ET Image credit: Erastus Salisbury Field, “The Garden of Eden” (ca. 1860), Museum of Fine Arts, Boston One of the most remarkable aspects of today’s financial markets is that, at one and the same time, individual investors have never been treated better and have never felt worse. With future...
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Image Credit: Christophe Vorlet By Jason Zweig | Sept. 15, 2017 12:53 pm ET You probably can’t get a Ferrari at the price of a Ford Fiesta, but some people can’t resist trying to find a bargain. That’s the idea behind the latest attempt by exchange-traded funds to enable just about anybody to buy investments only the wealthiest could...
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