The Intelligent Investor
With the ability to earn north of 5% on your cash, it’s time to rethink your safest investments.
Jason Zweig
Columnist, The Wall Street Journal
Jason 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.
Latest Articles
The Intelligent investor
Trying to make up for stock market losses can be costly, impulsive and misguided, and the Dow isn’t necessarily your best metric
The Intelligent Investor
Investors are flooding into funds that specialize in private debt. Many claim to offer mouthwatering returns at extremely low risk, but those claims depend on an unrealistic definition of “risk.”
The Intelligent Investor
Investment funds run by some college students are taking on an extraordinary challenge: Picking stocks for the next 25 years and then never trading them.
The Intelligent Investor
Professional fund managers labor under handicaps that individual investors don’t face. Make sure you manage your portfolio differently than they do.
The Intelligent Investor
Preposterous claims in private investment offerings illustrate an important point about red-hot “Reg D” securities: No one is checking to see if the details in these filings are even remotely true.
Back in Business
The U.S. used to have more than 30,000 banks, most of them serving just a single community. Two centuries of failure and lost deposits suggest smaller isn’t always better.
The Intelligent Investor
Throwing a lifeline to the financial system in times of crisis can have unintended consequences. Among them: Making the world feel safer can lull people into complacency and excessive risk-taking.
The Intelligent Investor
Yale University’s endowment has earned spectacular returns in hedge funds, private equity and other ”alternative assets.” Investors hoping to mimic the school need to understand what has made it successful.
The Intelligent Investor
The dark cloud of rising interest rates comes with some significant silver linings.
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