Image Credit: Alex Nabaum By Jason Zweig | March 22, 2019 9:00 a.m. ET You can learn a valuable lesson from the nation’s largest public-pension plan: Be careful how high you set your expectations. You might have to try to meet them. The $358 billion California Public Employees’ Retirement System has been studying whether to adopt a new...
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Image Credit: Alex Nabaum By Jason Zweig | March 15, 2019 11:00 a.m. ET True or false: The stock market is too focused on the short term. The answer seems almost too obvious. Companies often appear to care only about the next three to 12 months. On Wall Street, the long term begins about 30 seconds from now and generally ends a few weeks...
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Image Credit: Alex Nabaum By Jason Zweig | March 8, 2019 11:47 a.m. ET The push to require stockbrokers to act in their clients’ best interest is turning into a turf war. The Securities and Exchange Commission, after years of study, should complete new regulations later this year. But several states, no longer willing to wait and see what...
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Image Credit: Alex Nabaum By Jason Zweig | March 1, 2019 11:00 a.m. ET The best things in life may be free, but free investing can carry a cost. On Feb. 25, SoFi, an online financial-services firm, filed a preliminary prospectus for four exchange-traded funds, including two that will charge no management fees. That comes after Fidelity...
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