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Jason Zweig

Area of Expertise: Investing and personal finance                  

Web Site:  www.jasonzweig.com

Twitter Feed: @jasonzweigwsj   

Books:  “The Intelligent Investor” (editor); “Your Money and Your Brain” “The Little Book of Safe Money,” “Benjamin Graham: Building a Profession” (co-editor); “The Devil’s Financial Dictionary”

Topics Presented in Speeches:  Behavioral finance and neuroeconomics, investing strategy

Email:  info@jasonzweig.com

Biography:

Jason Zweig is the investing and personal finance columnist for The Wall Street Journal. He is the author of “The Devil’s Financial Dictionary” (PublicAffairs Books, 2015), a satirical glossary of Wall Street, and “Your Money and Your Brain” (Simon & Schuster, 2007), on the neuroscience of investing. Zweig edited the revised edition of Benjamin Graham’s The Intelligent Investor (HarperCollins, 2003), the classic text that Warren Buffett has described as “by far the best book about investing ever written.” Zweig also wrote "The Little Book of Safe Money" (Wiley, 2009); co-edited “Benjamin Graham: Building a Profession” (McGraw Hill, 2010), an anthology of Graham’s essays; and assisted the Nobel Prize-winning psychologist Daniel Kahneman in writing his book “Thinking, Fast and Slow.” From 1995 through 2008 Zweig was a senior writer for Money magazine; before joining Money, he was the mutual funds editor at Forbes. Zweig has also been a guest columnist for Time magazine and cnn.com.  He has served as a trustee of the Museum of American Finance, an affiliate of the Smithsonian Institution, and sits on the editorial boards of Financial History magazine and The Journal of Behavioral Finance. A graduate of Columbia College, Zweig lives in New York City.

author Image Jason Zweig is the investing and personal finance columnist for The Wall Street Journal and author of “The Devil’s Financial Dictionary” (PublicAffairs Books, 2015).


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