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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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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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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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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Image Credit: Alex Nabaum By Jason Zweig | April 3, 2020 10:00 am ET Investors can survive a bear market the same way hikers survive an encounter with a bear: Remain calm and don’t make sudden moves. With some modifications, the National Park Service’s advisory on how to behave if you come across a bear in the wild is a...
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