Jason Zweig

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906 appearances 17 recordings 1 series first heard Jan 2018 last heard Sep 2022

Jason Zweig’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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WSJ Your Money Briefing · Mutual Funds Offer New Investors Convenience, With a Cost · 28 Apr 2021 podcast

It does take a little bit of checking around, but typically any brokerage firm where you could buy a stock or an ETF, you should also be able to buy a mutual fund. voice-verified

And in your 401k, voice-verified

or other retirement plan, it's likely to be the default option, the thing that is presented to you as your first choice. voice-verified

Thanks for having me, JR. voice-verified

WSJ Your Money Briefing · Why Bonds Still Appeal Despite Today's Superlow Interest Rates · 27 Apr 2021 podcast

The advantages of mutual funds have not changed since they were first developed roughly a century ago. voice-verified

They offer a voice-verified

easy diversification by dividing your money among dozens, sometimes hundreds, even thousands of different stocks or bonds or other assets. voice-verified

They're relatively low cost. voice-verified

WSJ Your Money Briefing · Robinhood Trading App: A Seasoned Expert Puts It to the Test · 11 Dec 2020 podcast

Financial technology, like brokerage app on your smartphone, is just a tool. voice-verified

And like any tool, it can be used to make things better or to make things worse. voice-verified

You can build furniture with a hammer and you can break furniture with a hammer. voice-verified

And you can make yourself wealthier with a brokerage app and you can make yourself poorer. voice-verified

My pleasure. voice-verified

Robinhood has gotten incredible amounts of attention this year, especially since the pandemic struck as kind of the popular way for inexperienced investors to try speculating in the stock market and other financial markets. voice-verified

And it wasn't totally clear to me whether all of that criticism was deserved or what the app was really like. voice-verified

So I just decided I would give it a try. voice-verified

Well, I've always been a very long-term investor. voice-verified

Often, you know, I hold my investments for literally for decades at a time, some actually for more than a quarter century so far. voice-verified

But my mission here was to try to make as much money as possible as fast as possible. voice-verified

That's what my editor ordered me to do. voice-verified

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