Jonathan Clements

Most investors are pretty smart. Yet most investors also remain heavily invested in actively managed stock funds. This is puzzling. The temptation,…

— Jonathan Clements

Why are people who are appalled at insider trading so quick to trade on inside information when it comes their way?

— Jonathan Clements

“In what appears to have been an unplanned quip, Wilberforce asked Huxley if he thought he was descended from an ape on…

— Jonathan Clements

Retirement is like a long vacation in Las Vegas. The goal is to enjoy it to the fullest, but not so fully…

— Jonathan Clements

“Natural science in England, as Darwin already knew to his cost, was still the purview of Christian scholars. But here was a…

— Jonathan Clements

I am a huge, huge, huge fan of index funds. They are the investor’s best friend and Wall Street’s worst nightmare.

— Jonathan Clements

Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny should take a few pointers from the mutual-fund industry. All three are trying to pull off…

— Jonathan Clements

What to do when the market goes down? Read the opinions of the investment gurus who are quoted in the WSJ. And,…

— Jonathan Clements

If you want to see the greatest threat to your financial future, go home and take a look in the mirror.

— Jonathan Clements

In the Modern Age, there are still those who refuse to contradict a single word of the Bible, even though the Bible…

— Jonathan Clements

It's one of the ironies of investing. The rich can afford to take risks, but they don't need to. The poor need…

— Jonathan Clements

“He would joke that “stock-market forecasters exist to make astrologers look good.”

— Jonathan Clements

In 1867, George Campbell, Duke of Argyll, had published The Reign of Law, a book that Darwin found deeply annoying. A supporter…

— Jonathan Clements

“Thomas Wollaston, in the Annals and Magazine of Natural History, complained that Darwin did no seem to know what a species actually…

— Jonathan Clements