Legalese
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as, or should ever be treated or used as, investment
advice. Sure, Jason Zweig calls it “investment
advice” or “financial advice” (he’s
gotta call it something) but he doesn’t know you
from Adam and he can’t possibly understand anything
about your individual needs and circumstances. Besides,
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as a financial advisor under the provisions of the Investment
Advisor Act of 1940. In fact, as a full-time journalist,
he is specifically exempt from regulation under Section
202 (a) of that Federal law. That means, ironically
enough, that you might be able to sue your broker for
following a stupid suggestion Jason Zweig happens to
make, but you can’t sue Jason (who is protected,
perhaps too well, against this sort of action by the
First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution). Under no
circumstances, and by no stretch of the most wildly
depraved imagination, is any of the content available
through this website a solicitation to buy or sell securities.
Past performance is no guarantee of future success –
which is a good thing, since Jason Zweig has no past
performance, since he is not a money manager and, if
he were, he would be the first to warn that it has no
predictive power anyway. Jason Zweig does not publish
a market newsletter and does not manage money for anyone
but his own immediate family, so nothing presented herein
is or should be interpreted as a solicitation for business
of any kind. This particular assemblage of verbiage
is inserted herein exclusively to verify the proposition
that nobody ever reads these things and to ascertain
the total numerical quantity of Latin-derived adjectives
and substantives that it is possible to insert into
a single interminable sentence of legalese. Seriously,
though, throughout all the materials he makes available
on this website, Jason Zweig will make every effort
to uphold the highest standards of honesty and integrity,
but he cannot guarantee that even this narrow little
effort will succeed. By now you’ve probably gotten
the idea that Jason Zweig is not in the guaranteeing
business. You will have to be the sole judge of whether
his effort succeeds.
