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☆ Why Investors Are Piling into Funds That Promise Not to Beat the Stock Market
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-10 | by ( Jason Zweig | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Finally, you can earn income of 4% or more on cash and bonds. What if you could earn monthly dividends on stocks at an annual rate of at least 11%? That’s the pitch for exchange-traded funds that are generating eye-popping yields by selling options contracts. These ETFs, known as covered-call or option-income funds, also shielded investors from some of the pounding that stocks took last year.

☆ ‘Green’ Funds Cost Three Times More Than You Think
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-03 | by ( Jason Zweig | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

You might not be able to do well by doing good, but you will certainly pay more to feel good. Wall Street’s latest bandwagon—or juggernaut—is ESG investing, which seeks to make businesses and the world [E]nvironmentally cleaner, [S]ocially fairer and [G]overned better.

☆ Gen Zers won't even apply to a job if the salary isn't listed
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-24 | by ( Madison Hoff | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

"Gen Zers value transparency and are generally more open to having salary discussions than previous generations," said Adobe's global head of university talent. While some US graduates and future talent may want to know pay when they are looking for jobs, some states actually have pay transparency laws. Pay transparency laws can have pros for employers, current workers, and job seekers. It can also save time, Zweig said, noting that "workers won't apply to firms that don't meet their compensation expectations." "In addition to simplifying the offer negotiation process, salary transparency helps employers close wage gaps across gender, race, and background," Sabhahit told Insider.

☆ When the Stock Market and Jay Powell Are Frenemies
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-20 | by ( Jason Zweig | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Maybe bad news isn’t good news anymore. For the first couple of weeks of 2023, financial markets were partying as if New Year’s Eve had never ended. Traders took every message from the Federal Reserve that it would keep raising interest rates until inflation was snuffed out as another signal that the worst was over.

☆ An Iowa Farmer Tried to Dodge Stock-Market Turmoil. It Cost Him $900,000.
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-13 | by ( Jason Zweig | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Over the past two years, bonds have lost almost 15% and stocks have barely gained 5%, whipsawing investors along the way. That’s what markets do. As a result, financial firms are pile-driving their clients into assets that have no market. Over the past two years, investors bought an astonishing $878.9 billion in so-called Regulation D private offerings of debt and equity that don’t trade, according to SLCG Economic Consulting, a research firm in McLean, Va.

☆ Your Investing Strategy Just Failed. It’s Time to Double Down.
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-06 | by ( Jason Zweig | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Many investors have been despairing that the 60/40 portfolio, that venerable mix of 60% stocks and 40% bonds, is dead. Instead, they should be celebrating its resurrection. A so-called balanced portfolio is better-positioned to provide decent returns at moderate risk than it’s been in at least 15 years.

☆ You Bought a Hot Fund. Now It’s on Ice.
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-09 | by ( Jason Zweig | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Anyone who invested in Blackstone Real Estate Income Trust, a private fund, has earned towering returns since it launched in early 2017. It has been one of the hottest of all so-called alternative investments, those assets relentlessly flogged by Wall Street as counterweights to stocks and bonds. It’s also a reminder that investors accustomed to conventional investments can be taken by surprise when they venture into the unconventional.

☆ I-Bonds Aren’t the Only Way to Fight Inflation
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-02 | by ( Jason Zweig | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

If you’ve been thinking that this year’s miserable returns on stocks and bonds have put a safe retirement out of reach, think again. Thanks to the recent rout in bond prices, Treasury inflation-protected securities, or TIPS, have turned into a cheap form of insurance for the first time in more than a decade. Buying and holding them in your retirement portfolio can help assure you of a lifelong stream of income that won’t be devoured by the rising cost of living.

☆ China to punish internet users for ‘liking’ posts in crackdown after zero-Covid protests
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-30 | by ( Laura He | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

Hong Kong CNN Business —Internet users in China will soon be held liable for liking posts deemed illegal or harmful, sparking fears that the world’s second largest economy plans to control social media like never before. China’s internet watchdog is stepping up its regulation of cyberspace as authorities intensify their crackdown on online dissent amid growing public anger against the country’s stringent Covid restrictions. For the first time, it states that “likes” of public posts must be regulated, along with other types of comments. This year, the country’s strict zero-Covid policy and Xi’s securing of a historic third term have sparked discontent and anger among many online users. “Cyberspace policing by Chinese authorities is already beyond measure, but that does not stop brave Chinese citizens from challenging the regime,” he said.

☆ You Don’t Know What You Don’t Know About Your Financial Adviser
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-04 | by ( Jason Zweig | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Stocks and bonds crumbled again this week, and inflation seems unstoppable. Maybe it’s time to hire a financial adviser. After all, for years people like me have been telling you that advisers have to disclose much more about themselves than stockbrokers do, so you can make better-informed decisions about their services and integrity.

☆ What to Do When You Know What Stocks Will Do Next
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-28 | by ( Jason Zweig | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Imagine you could know tomorrow’s news today. Would that make you a better investor? On Oct. 13, the Labor Department announced the consumer-price index rose 8.2% in September from the same month a year earlier, dashing hopes that inflation would drop.

☆ Bob Pisani: How my obsession with a Black Sabbath poster showed how irrational we can be when investing
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-20 | by ( Bob Pisani | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +8 min

If you think knowing something about behavioral economics prevents you from doing stupid things, let me tell you about the Black Sabbath poster I bought. How I almost lost my mind bidding on a stupid Black Sabbath poster One day I was monitoring an online auction of rock posters. A 1976 Black Sabbath poster came up for sale. It's not like Black Sabbath has an intense cult of collectors, like Zeppelin or the Velvet Underground. With that damn Black Sabbath poster, I violated all the rules.

☆ How to Make Peace With Your Stock Market Losses
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-10 | by ( Jason Zweig | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Have you read your account statements for the just-finished third quarter? If you’re anything like me, your answer is no. You probably already know stocks are down 20% and bonds 14% for the year to date.

☆ The Intelligent Investor
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-28 | by ( Jason Zweig | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

The conventional wisdom says now’s the time to invest in companies that have pricing power. But the last time the U.S. hit a prolonged period of stagflation, those stocks weren’t the real stars.

☆ When Bad Things Happen to Good Stocks
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-23 | by ( Jason Zweig | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Jason Zweig — Columnist at The Wall Street Journal
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-19 | by ( Jason Zweig | Caitlin Mccabe | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Jason ZweigJason Zweig writes The Intelligent Investor column every weekend for The Wall Street Journal. He also writes Back in Business, an occasional column about financial history. Jason is the author of “Your Money and Your Brain,” on the neuroscience of investing, and the editor of the revised edition of Benjamin Graham’s “The Intelligent Investor,” the classic text that Warren Buffett has described as “by far the best book about investing ever written.”Before joining the Journal, Jason helped the Nobel Prize-winning psychologist Daniel Kahneman write the book “Thinking, Fast and Slow.”Earlier, Jason was a senior writer for Money magazine, a guest columnist for Time magazine and CNN.com, and a senior editor at Forbes magazine. He spent a year studying Middle Eastern history and culture at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.

☆ Lectură estivală. 30 de titluri de cărți care ar trebui să apară în bibliotecă oricărui cititor în această vară
▼ + stars: | 2018-06-25 | by ( Onixmedia Srl | On N'Est Pas Sérieux | Quand On A Dix-Sept Ans . Apusurile De Soare | ) diez.md time to read: +2 min

30 de titluri de cărți care ar trebui să apară în bibliotecă oricărui cititor în această varăÎn pregătirile pentru vacanța la plajă sau lungile zboruri cu avionul, găsește un moment de respiro și așază-te, fie la piscină , fie pe canapea cu o carte în poală și o limonadă rece alături. #diez ți-a pregătit o listă de 30 de lecturi pe care nu le poți trece cu ochii decât de la o copertă la alta! „Viața începe vineri.” „Viitorul începe luni.”#Orhan Pamuk. „Cartea râsului și a uitării”# James Joyce. „Sacrul și profanul”# Mircea Cărtărescu.

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☆ ‘Chess Story’ Review: Playing the Nazis’ Game
▼ + stars: | 1938-03-11 | by ( Kyle Smith | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

All of the swells of Vienna are gathered for an intoxicating evening of fancy dress, fizzy wine and graceful waltzing. “As long as Vienna keeps dancing, the world can’t end,” reasons high-living notary Josef Bartok in “Chess Story.” Vienna stops dancing: It’s March 11, 1938. Later that night the Austrian premier will resign, turning the country over to the Third Reich as Bartok ( Oliver Masucci ) returns home. Adapted from the novella by Stefan Zweig , “Chess Story” is a diabolically knotted psychological thriller. The board game emerges as a fascist tool for crushing the psyche of one’s opponent, a portal to liberation, or possibly both.

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