In his recent interview with William Green on The Investor’s Podcast, Jason Zweig recalled one of the most important lessons he learned from Daniel Kahneman and that is looking at everything we do with a clean slate. This should include our investing strategy and portfolio. Here’s an excerpt from the … Read More
Jason Zweig: How Companies Use the Latest Profits Fad to Fool You
Here’s a great article by Jason Zweig at the WSJ which discusses how companies use the latest profits fad to fool investors: Eighty-six years ago this week, the stock market hit its worst low. Today, with markets near all-time highs, things aren’t as different as you might think. Then, as … Read More
What’s An Investor Supposed To Do Today? Trennert & Zweig – WealthTrack
It’s not surprising that some investors are finding it very difficult in today’s market with the number of index funds surging, fewer publicly traded stocks available, and computer dominated trading. One of the most staggering statistics (below) reflecting current market conditions is that there are now more benchmark indexes than … Read More
Jason Zweig Says Stock Picking Is Dying Because There Are No More Stocks To Pick
Here’s a great article by Jason Zweig who says the universe of stocks is shrinking making it more difficult for investors to find undervalued opportunities. Here’s an excerpt from that article: In less than two decades, more than half of all publicly traded companies have disappeared. There were 7,355 U.S. stocks … Read More
How to Invest in the U.S. Without Even Trying – Jason Zweig
One of the best blogs in our Top 50 Blogs 2017 is Jason Zweig. Zweig just wrote a great article called How to Invest in the U.S. Without Even Trying. Here’s an excerpt from that article: Imagine you wanted to own a mononational U.S. portfolio. S&P Dow Jones Indices estimates that … Read More
Jason Zweig: You Should Approach All Claims Of Market-Beating Patterns With Extreme Skepticism
One of our favorite finance writers at The Acquirer’s Multiple is Jason Zweig. Zweig is a personal finance columnist for The Wall Street Journal. He’s also the editor of the revised edition of Benjamin Graham’s The Intelligent Investor (HarperCollins, 2003), the classic text that Warren Buffett has described as “by far the … Read More
Jason Zweig: Investors Expectations Are So Far-Fetched They Border On Fantasy
One of our favorite columnists here at The Acquirer’s Multiple is Jason Zweig. Zweig recently wrote a great article on investor expectations saying, “[Investors] expectations are so far-fetched they border on fantasy”. He also says, “many investors believe in magic”, and “investors check the value of their financial assets much … Read More