Jason Zweig
Jason Zweig is an investing and personal finance columnist for The Wall Street Journal, where he writes “The Intelligent Investor” column every weekend and WSJ’s “Back in Business” column about financial history. Zweig is 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.” He is also the author of "The Devil's Financial Dictionary," a satirical glossary of Wall Street terms, and "Your Money and Your Brain," one of the first books to explore the neuroscience of investing. Earlier in his career, Zweig was a senior writer for Money magazine, a guest columnist for Time magazine and CNN.com, and a senior editor at Forbes magazine.
Jason Zweig Professional Experience / Academic History
Professional Experience
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Personal Finance Columnist
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Editor, Reporter, and Writer
Academic History
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B.A.
CURRENT AFFILIATIONS
Editorial Board, Financial History magazine
Affiliate, Smithsonian Institution
Editorial Board, The Journal of Behavioral Finance
EARLY CAREER
Prior to joining the Journal, he helped the Nobel Prize-winning psychologist Daniel Kahneman write the book “Thinking, Fast and Slow.”
Before joining Money in 1995, Zweig was the mutual funds editor at Forbes, where he covered the bond market, LBO, and investing, among others.
Earlier, he had been a reporter-researcher for the Economy & Business section of Time and an editorial assistant at Africa Report, a bimonthly journal.
MEDIA & PUBLICATIONS
A frequent commentator on television and radio, Zweig is also a popular public speaker.
He has appeared before the American Association of Individual Investors, the Aspen Institute, the CFA Institute and the Morningstar Investment Conference.
He has also spoken before university audiences at Harvard, Stanford, and Oxford, among others.