While investors overall are still lukewarm on U.S. stocks, one section of the market they have been keen on in 2012 is dividend stocks — perhaps too keen, says Jason Zweig. In his Intelligent Investor column for The Wall Street Journal, Zweig says that so far this year, investors have put a net of $9 [...]
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Love Him Or Hate Him, Keynes Could Pick Stocks
April 4, 2012
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John Maynard Keynes’ economic principles have been the subject of intense debate over the past few years. But in a recent column for The Wall Street Journal, Jason Zweig notes that one thing not up for debate is Keynes’ remarkable track record as an investor. What’s particularly interesting, Zweig says, is that Keynes’ struggled as [...]
Read moreAre We in the Best Time Ever for Individual Investors?
March 2, 2012
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With all of the animosity toward Wall Street these days, it seems hard to believe that today is the best time ever to be an individual investor. But Wall Street Journal columnist Jason Zweig makes a strong case that it is. “Research by Charles M. Jones of Columbia University and Kenneth R. French of Dartmouth College [...]
Read moreInvesting Mistakes: A Result Of Your DNA?
February 22, 2012
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How much of our investment success or failure is a result of our genetic makeup? An intriguing new study attempts to answer just that question, The Wall Street Journal’s Jason Zweig notes on WSJ’s Total Return blog. The study, performed by finance professors Henrik Cronqvist of Claremont McKenna College and Stephan Siegel of the W.P. Carey [...]
Read moreAdvice from the Best — In 10 Words or Less
January 27, 2012
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Could you distill your investment philosophy into 10 words or less? In his latest post for The Wall Street Journal’s Total Return blog, Jason Zweig poses that question to some of the world’s most successful investors. Zweig says that when someone recently asked him the question, he “laughed and said, ‘Of course not!’ But right afterward, [...]
Read moreAre Some Markets Less Efficient?
January 11, 2012
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While fund managers often say they add value for investors in smaller, lesser known markets because those markets are inefficient, The Wall Street Journal’s Jason Zweig says the data shows otherwise. “If it were true that money managers can more easily beat inefficient than efficient markets, then the differences would be easy to see,” Zweig [...]
Read moreMore Evidence that Correlations Haven’t Really Changed
November 14, 2011
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Recently we highlighted an article from Mark Hulbert that detailed why talk of a new era of higher correlations among stocks is misguided. Now, The Wall Street Journal’s Jason Zweig offers more data showing that, when it comes to the correlation of the U.S. market with other markets, perception and reality are very different. Zweig [...]
Read moreZweig on the “Optimism Bias”
October 28, 2011
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On the Wall Street Journal’s “Total Return” blog, Jason Zweig highlights research that indicates human beings have an “optimism bias” — that is, we learn more from our successes than we do from our failures. And that, he says, has major implications for investors. Zweig says a new study, performed by a team of neuroscientists in [...]
Read moreThe Not-So-New Macro Investing World
September 12, 2011
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For investors, much of the decade since the September 11 attacks seems to have been dominated by an unprecedented slew of troubling macroeconomic issues: terrorism fears, a financial crisis, natural disasters like Hurricane Katrina and the earthquake and tsunami that rocked Japan, to name a few. But such macro events are nothing new, The Wall [...]
Read moreZweig: Market Is Cheaper — But Not Cheap
August 10, 2011
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The recent downturn in the stock market has made stocks significantly cheaper than they were before — but they’re not yet “cheap”, according to The Wall Street Journal’s Jason Zweig. “Consider the [valuation] measure preferred by the great investment analyst Benjamin Graham and refined by Yale University economist Robert Shiller, called the ‘cyclically adjusted’ P/E [...]
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