New research confirms that investors still do not trust financial markets and regulators do not believe they are able to police them. Commenting on a survey done by State Street Center for Applied Research, Wall Street Journal columnist Jason Zweig observes that individual investors’ behavior contradicts their stated goals, and that institutional investors are plunging into complex alternative investments like private equity the risks of which they do not know how to measure (“Would You Buy a Used Stock From This Market?,” Wall Street Journal).