Image Credit: Alex Nabaum By Jason Zweig | Sept. 20, 2019 11:03 am ET The biggest casualty of the postponed initial public offering for We Co., parent of the office-sharing business WeWork, isn’t the company or its bankers. It’s the myth that private markets are superior to public markets. Investors have long been told that the stars...
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Image Credit: Alex Nabaum By Jason Zweig | Sept. 13, 2019 10:52 am ET In one of the sharpest swings in years, cheap “value” stocks outperformed fast-moving “momentum” shares by up to 8 percentage points in a single day this week. That move could, just possibly, foretell the long-awaited resurrection of value stocks—but it definitely...
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Image Credit: Alex Nabaum By Jason Zweig | Sept. 6, 2019 11:02 am ET If I ask you in a questionnaire whether you are afraid of snakes, you might say no. If I throw a live snake in your lap and then ask if you’re afraid of snakes, you’ll probably say yes—if you ever talk to me again. Investing is like that: On a bland, hypothetical...
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Image Credit: Brian Stauffer By Jason Zweig | Aug. 30, 2019 10:44 am ET Imagine millions of investors losing money and not caring—perhaps not even noticing. Among the 652 target-date funds that existed as of Dec. 31, 2018, every single one lost money last year, according to Morningstar. The average drop among these funds, which are...
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