Jason Van Steenwyk
Editor. Has covered funds, investing and risk management for more than 25 years.

Jason Van Steenwyk was a reporter for Mutual Funds, a Time Inc. Fortune Group publication. His personal finance and investment writing has since appeared in WealthManagement, U.S. News, ThinkAdvisor, FPA Journal, NerdWallet, ValuePenguin, Investopedia and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. He has also ghostwritten many reports, white papers, blogs and books for investment professionals.
Outside work, he plays Irish and bluegrass music on fiddle, guitar and bouzouki. He lives with his wife, Andrea, and Asher, a very large and very orange cat.
Articles Jason contributed to
- Boeing plummets 10.7%, but Chip stocks lift S&P 500 on Broadcom deal
- Vanguard Total Bond Market ETF's Set to Gain More Than Current Cash Yield Suggests
- Fed expected to hold Oct. 28; dissents and Warsh’s December signal in focus
- Brazil ETF EWZ falls 19.8% as Lula win drives Ibovespa’s worst day since 2020
- SCHD tracks 100 U.S. stocks selected for dividends and financial strength
- Week ahead: Fed rate decision, Microsoft, Alphabet and Amazon earnings
- Dow drops 1.2% as Brent hits six-month high
- SpaceX more than doubles its Nadaq-100 weighting as post-IPO lockups expire
- Chip stocks drag Nasdaq to worst day since June as AI funding worries return
- VTI tracks the total U.S. stock market - large caps are 69.8% of it
- SpaceX leads the Nasdaq-100 after its AI results
- IBIT pays fund expenses by selling bitcoin - generating a small taxable distribution each year
- Investors rotate out of tech as health care hits a record; Dow gains 1%
- How JEPQ trades Nasdaq-100 upside for monthly income. Here's how.
- Housing starts fall 5.2%; single-family permits hit lowest since 2023
- Stocks higher on narrow tech and consumer rally
- Four stocks are 27.1% of VOO, past the 25% cap for diversified funds
- Tech funds routed as Nasdaq has its worst week since June
- AI stocks down, health care up, and long Treasurys rally despite inflationary pressure
- S&P 500 falls 1.1% after hot inflation as long yields give back a spike
- S&P 500 ends flat as Johnson & Johnson falls 5.7%
- SPY trailed the S&P 500 by 0.14 percentage points over the past year, more than triple the gap at cheaper rivals
- Korean Kospi falls 5.5% as Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix slide
- Chip stocks leave the S&P 500 nearly unchanged as most sectors rise
- The SPDR That Eats Itself
- Nvidia is nearly a fifth of the VanEck Semiconductor ETF
- VOO shares its portfolio with other Vanguard 500 index fund share classes
- Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile fall on SpaceX's spectrum deal
- Canada loses 68,000 jobs in September, nowhere near the +9,200 gain forecasted
- Delta cuts 2026 profit outlook as fuel costs outpace higher fares
- Chips, Nadaq down; Equal-weighted S&P outpaces tech-heavy market cap-weighted index
- Brent crude slips from intraday high as Trump rules out Iran strikes before midterms
- Industrial Stocks Sink 2.2% as Treasury Yields Hit 24-Year Highs
- Most Fed officials backed one more rate increase this year, minutes show
- Waymo increases its first private loan to $5 billion
- Utilities rose 3%, led by Constellation and Vistra, as the S&P 500 set a record close
- DeepSeek is close to raising $12 billion, past its own target