Jason Zweig credits Jonathan Clements as a key figure in the investor shift from active to passive investing, a trend that has saved investors hundreds of billions of dollars in management fees.

Jason Zweig estimates that Jonathan Clements wrote between 200 and 300 columns advocating for index funds.

Jason Zweig asserts that Jonathan Clements was second only to Jack Bogle in his influence on popularizing index funds among American investors.

Jason Zweig and Jonathan Clements first met and worked together at Forbes magazine in March 1987.

The Jonathan Clements Getting Going on Savings Initiative's pilot program was developed with researchers from Boston University, the University of Chicago, and Northeastern University.

The Jonathan Clements Getting Going on Savings Initiative ran a pilot program in Boston in the summer of 2023 that gave money to high school students from low-income families to open Roth IRAs.

The Jonathan Clements Getting Going on Savings Initiative partnered with J-PAL, a behavioral economics research institute at MIT co-run by Nobel laureate Esther Duflo, to implement its program.