Image Credit: Jimmy Baikovicius, close-up photo of Salvador Dali’s “The Persistence of Memory,” Flickr.com By Jason Zweig | Sept. 17, 2018 7:01 a.m. ET In light of my latest Wall Street Journal column about investor Howard Marks’s views on market timing, I thought it might be interesting to unearth a piece I wrote many years...
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Image Credit: Howard Marks By Jason Zweig | Sept. 14, 2018 7:00 a.m. ET Next month, the respected investor Howard Marks is coming out with a new book, Mastering the Market Cycle, whose title might inspire many readers to scour it for evidence that short-term market timing can work. They will look in vain. You should scale back or crank up the level...
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Image Credit: “Men sweeping up floor of Stock Exchange” (1908), Library of Congress By Jason Zweig | Sept. 7, 2018 11:21 a.m. ET On Sept. 1, Barry Popik received a check for $35.98. That legal settlement is all that’s left of the $25,000 he invested in Lehman Brothers preferred stock in February 2008. But money is not all that Mr....
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Image Credit: Alex Nabaum By Jason Zweig | Aug. 31, 2018 12:01 p.m. ET Mutual funds made one hot mess out of August. On Aug. 10, Fidelity Investments conducted stock splits on some of its biggest funds, cutting their per-share prices by a factor of 10 while giving investors 10 times as many shares — a gesture that leaves shareholders...
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Image credit: Marion, “Invisible Man” (Jan. 29, 2013), Flickr By Jason Zweig | Aug. 26, 2018 9:38 p.m. ET If you asked me What’s the article on financial journalism you most wish you had written yourself? I would point to this one. I don’t know who wrote it, although he or she (or they?) did it so well I remain green...
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