Image Credit: Alex Nabaum By Jason Zweig | Dec. 20, 2019 10:11 am ET Rip van Winkle, who took a drink from the wrong keg and spent the next 20 years snoring, was a newbie at sleeping. Let me tell you about a mutual fund that bought a few stocks 84 years ago and hasn’t moved a muscle ever since. The fund, known today as Voya...
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Image Credit: Alfred Eisenstadt, “New York Public Library” (1944), LIFE Photo Collection via Google Arts & Culture Dec. 17, 2019 | 6:41 pm ET By Jason Zweig and Andrea Fuller The Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards Inc. on Tuesday announced new measures to tighten its oversight of more than 85,000 stockbrokers, insurance...
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Image Credit: Joe Goldberg via Flickr By Jason Zweig | Dec. 17, 2019 8:00 pm ET If 2000-2009 was the Lost Decade for investors, 2010-2019 was the Decade of Forgetting. In March 2008, E.S. Browning wrote for The Wall Street Journal that “we may be in another lost decade” for stocks, like the Great Depression and the 1970s. He was...
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Image Credit: Alex Nabaum By Jason Zweig | Dec. 13, 2019 11:00 am ET The best-performing stock of the past 30 years isn’t Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc., Microsoft Corp. or Apple Inc. It’s little-known Jack Henry & Associates Inc., which provides technology to banks and other financial firms from its...
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Image Credit: Alex Nabaum By Jason Zweig | Dec. 6, 2019 11:00 am ET One of Wall Street’s hottest investments lets you participate in most of the gains on stocks while sidestepping some of the losses. The most important word in that sentence is “some.” If you buy a so-called buffered annuity, your satisfaction will...
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