Jan 21, 2016

The computer systems that run our world—the ones that secure our financial information, protect our privacy and even keep our power grid running—all have a critical, unpatchable weakness, says Christopher Mims writing for the Wall Street Journal. It’s the humans who use them.

As the toll of data breaches and hacks...

Jan 20, 2016

Jason Zweig, author of the Intelligent Investor and columnist for the Wall Street Journal, has studied a strategy gaining traction with higher net worth clients. He reports on a form of bucketing strategy being used by investment thinker Ashvin Chhabra--a former Chief Investment Officer with Merrill Lynch. Chhabra has...

Jan 19, 2016

Study after study shows that missing the best days of the market can cost you.

Why? It turns out that almost all big stock market gains and drops are concentrated in just a few trading days each year. 

Jan 14, 2016

When the stock market tumbled in 2008, pleasant sounding “target date” funds for people near retirement sustained heavy losses. Since then, sponsors of these funds, which specify a likely retirement year in their monikers and are widely offered in 401(k) retirement plans, have generally lightened up on stock...

Jan 13, 2016

U.S. public pension plans and large mutual funds are sheltering more of their holdings in cash than they have in years, a sign of growing stress in financial markets.

A Wall Street Journal Report by Timothy Martin and Sarah Krouse says the increasingly defensive stance reflects investors’ skittishness about global...