After retiring from the Journal in 2012, I began freelancing for the Journal's special sections on mutual funds and investing. The first piece was about a mutual fund which didn't have a manager but kept chugging along with stocks chosen back in 1935. More recently, I wrote about how Wall Street brokers don't totally love index funds, and how online brokers promote options trading to individual investors without mentioning that the majority of those who try it lose money.
