by Dan Solin on July 25, 2013 On June 19, MarketWatch (owned by The Wall Street Journal) published a blog postauthored by J.J. Zhang titled: The downsides to indexed investing. Mr. Zhang is identified as "a chemical engineer and amateur financial adviser who was the winner inMarketWatch's second annual World's Next Great Investing Columnist contest." I don't [...]

by Larry Swedrow on July 24, 2013 If outperformance by active managers was truly due to skill, we should see the best performers stay at the top from one period to the next. However, a report by Standard & Poor's shows that the "best" don't repeat more often than chance would [...]

by Jason Zweig on July 10, 2013 I was once asked, at a journalism conference, how I defined my job. I said: My job is to write the exact same thing between 50 and 100 times a year in such a way that neither my editors nor my readers will ever [...]