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When Your Fund Beats the Market, Ask: Which Market?

When Your Fund Beats the Market, Ask: Which Market?

Posted by on Apr 24, 2020 in Articles & Advice, Blog, Books, Columns, Featured |

Image Credit: Alex Nabaum     By Jason Zweig | April 24, 2020 11:01 am ET   Mutual-fund votes are usually pro-forma rituals in which investors do whatever the fund manager asks. An upcoming one at Putnam Investments should have investors asking what the manager has been doing. On Apr. 15, shareholders in Putnam Capital Spectrum Fund were...

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Charlie Munger: ‘The Phone Is Not Ringing Off the Hook’

Charlie Munger: ‘The Phone Is Not Ringing Off the Hook’

Posted by on Apr 17, 2020 in Articles & Advice, Blog, Books, Columns, Featured |

Image Credit: Nick Webb, 2010 (Flickr)     By Jason Zweig | April 17, 2020 10:00 am ET   If the coronavirus lockdown has frozen your investing plans, you’re in good company. Charlie Munger is watching and waiting, too. Mr. Munger, vice chairman of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. and Warren Buffett’s longtime business partner, likes to...

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Easter on the Sidewalk

Easter on the Sidewalk

Posted by on Apr 14, 2020 in Articles & Advice, Blog, Featured |

The Schilling family, before the days of social distancing.  Image credit: Colleen Schilling     By Jason Zweig | Apr. 14, 2020   It isn’t often I see a story worth telling just by looking outside the window, but that’s exactly what happened to me this Sunday, on Easter afternoon. Across the street from me, a family was...

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When You Guard Against One Risk, You Can Create Another

When You Guard Against One Risk, You Can Create Another

Posted by on Apr 12, 2020 in Articles & Advice, Blog, Books, Columns, Featured |

Image Credit: Alex Nabaum     By Jason Zweig | April 10, 2020 10:00 am ET   Floating-rate funds have taken on water. These funds are meant to protect against rising interest rates while paying high income and preserving capital. They sank in the first quarter as coronavirus locked down the economy and the Federal Reserve snuffed out the...

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