Plus: The Fed's rate hike isn't likely to be enough to derail corporate America's borrowing binge.
Some highs and lows, swings and misses
Bracing for the highs and lows of cannabis-industry stocks.
Broker-dealer agrees to a $1.4 million fine and will return investor money on approximately 2,000 sales of nontraded REITs. Firm also settles with states regarding leveraged ETFs.
MLPs move back into the spotlight for patient investors
Steven A. Cohen is poised to make a return to the hedge-fund industry by 2018 under an accord with U.S. regulators that settles allegations that the billionaire failed to supervise a convicted insider-trader at SAC Capital Advisors.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i> Morningstar's John Rekenthaler clarifies after recently referring to market-timers as “circus clowns minus the funny suits.”
Good infrastructure products are unlikely to wildly outperform equities, but they're also unlikely to create serious losses
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i>: Smart beta was the top financial search term on Investopedia in 2015, and for good reason.
Hedge-fund assets contracted by $95 billion to $2.87 trillion during third quarter amid a surge of fund closures.
Flip-flopping the weightings of the traditional Dow 30 stocks
The firm's settlement with the states was reminiscent of how broker-dealers handled various settlements in paying clients who bought auction rate securities.
Cerulli sees ETF assets more than doubling to $6T by 2020
Fund closure could put the spotlight on fixed-income ETFs, which are vulnerable because they are more liquid than their underlying assets.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i>: This week's rate hike could hit the markets in a half dozen, mostly bad, ways.
Some advisers swear by it, while others shun it as useless legalese.
The carnage unfolding in the high-yield bond market has paved the way for serious gains in some managed futures funds.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i>: The bond market selloff has sparked fears that the Fed might not hike rates today.
Plus: JPMorgan's David Kelly second-guesses the Fed, MLP investors hang on for dear life, and Joe Montana gets his VC groove on
