Monday's <i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i> menu: How will the market handle 3Q earnings? Plus: Bracing for an oil-price war, trouble beneath the surface of lower gas prices, a rare hawkish nod from the Fed, and advisers get high marks from clients.
Friday's <i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i> menu: The market's jolt puts liquid alt strategies in the spotlight. Plus: Minding the next threshold for stocks, reminding clients to buy on the dip, Fed missed the mark on inflation, and don't forget to worry about China.
It's a matter of diversifying rather than dabbling: Adding a few percentage points 'is not doing anything.' Look to mutual funds that hold real estate and private equity, strategists say.
For <i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i> today: Stock climb to continue. Plus: Loving and hating the strong dollar, China sets up for a currency fight, more spooky details in the JPMorgan hack attack, Pimco's slippery marketing gambit, short-sellers bet on the rally, and drones shape up as niche investment strategy.
“Monolithic” central bankers still see slack in the labor market and no signs of inflation.
Unconstrained bond funds, one of which Bill Gross will be managing at Janus, are the big magnets
Fees and performance are encouraging institutional investors to choose the less-expensive, more-regulated liquid route.
Given the shiny metal's price volatility, a lower exposure makes more sense, detractors say.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin:</i> Equity investors brace for insight from Janet Yellen and the Fed today. Plus: ETFs chase the freed-up Pimco assets, breaking down the bond market fears, Morgan Stanley says the auto industry's days are numbered, and Warren Buffett makes another safe bet.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin:</i> Gross' message to advisers. <i>Plus:</i> Where the Pimco flows are landing, the stock market rally as house of cards, the dental indicator, bitcoin is back and a big corporate split.
