The Wall Street Journal hired Jason Zweig, a senior writer and columnist for Money magazine, to be its new personal finance columnist after Jonathan Clements, author of its popular "Getting Going" column, departed for Citigroup earlier this year.

Zweig's weekly column, set to debut July 1, will occupy a space similar to the one left vacant by "Getting Going," which achieved a cultlike following for its simple and straightforward advice to individual investors.

Zweig and Clements hold many similar views about personal investing and are both proponents of index investment.

Zweig is also currently a guest columnist for Time magazine, and he was the mutual funds editor for Forbes before joining Money magazine in 1995.

He is the author of the recently published Your Money &Your Brain: How The New Science Of Neuroeconomics Can Help Make You Rich (Simon & Schuster, 2007), which looks at how neuroscience can be applied to investing. (Read our interview with Zweig, in which he discusses the book, here.)