Spencer Jakab

Spencer Jakab is an American author and journalist. He is the editor Heard on the Street for The Wall Street Journal. He formerly wrote the Ahead of the Tape column for the Journal and the Lex Column for the Financial Times. Before his career as a journalist, he was an analyst and then a director of emerging markets equity research at Credit Suisse.

Early life and education

Jakab graduated with a BA from Brandeis University in 1991.[1] He has an MA from the School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University.[2]

Career

Jakab worked as an equity analyst and then director of a research team studying emerging markets at Credit Suisse.[3]

Jakab then began working for The Wall Street Journal where he wrote the Ahead of the Tape column until 2015. He then became the newspaper's deputy editor of the Heard on the Street column in 2015 and then editor in 2019. In February 2025, Jakab was named the paper's investing columnist.[4]

Awards and honors

Jakab's book The Revolution That Wasn't was a finalist for the Best in Business Book Award of the Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing in the Investing and Personal Finance category.[5]

Books

  • The Revolution That Wasn't: GameStop, Reddit and the Fleecing of Small Investors (Portfolio, 2022)[6][7]
  • Heads I Win, Tails I Win: Why Smart Investors Fail and How to Tilt the Odds in Your Favor (Penguin/Portfolio, 2016)[8]

References

  1. ↑ "Class of 1991". Brandeis Magazine.
  2. ↑ https://www.aaii.com/authors/show/Spencer-Jakab
  3. ↑ "Spencer Jakab — Investing Columnist at The Wall Street Journal". The Wall Street Journal.
  4. ↑ Roush, Chris (February 10, 2025). "WSJ names Jakab its investing columnist".
  5. ↑ "Winners Announced in Best in Business Book Awards". July 24, 2023.
  6. ↑ "When Robin Hood is the Pied Piper: A new cautionary tale of the meme-stock bubble". Los Angeles Times. February 2, 2022.
  7. ↑ "Wall Street was the real winner of the GameStop saga" – via The Economist.
  8. ↑ https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-399-56320-1
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