The year's strongest week for equities was followed by one of its quietest, with energy stocks underpinning microscopic gains in a holiday-shortened week as investors kept their focus on the Federal Reserve.
Mutual fund outflows can spell capital gains disaster and this year, some funds with low turnover are reporting sizable capital gains distributions as managers sell securities to meet investor withdrawals.
The asset class offers portfolio diversification and a lot of upside protection but advisers can't forget about the impact of foreign exchange on returns.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i>: The trend of redemptions could mark a turning point for pricey hedge fund strategies that sometimes underperform.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i>: Instead of needing 80% of your pre-retirement income, you can probably make it with 60%.
The SPDR S&P 500 Fossil Fuel Free ETF is a greener version of the world's first and largest ETF.
Three mutual funds just the start for Pzena Investment Management.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i>: According to the COP21 conference in Paris this week, global warming is on a pace to eventually hurt the economy.
Standouts from Vanguard, Pimco and American Funds top the list. Did your favorite make the cut?
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i>: Citing the rapidly-changing economy, the former Citigroup and Bank of America exec says job insecurity in finance will likely increase.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin:</i> The money manager has lost the emerging-markets bond crown when ill-timed bets drove investors out the door to the tune of 62%.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin:</i> SEC chairwoman Mary Jo White says the agency is taking a hard look at ETFs' role on Aug. 24, when stocks dropped like a rock, and the agency's trading rules are part of the scrutiny.
How financial advisers can put this strategy into practice and begin to invest with a gender lens
Emphasizing defense and true diversification in ETF choices can provide protection.
Hoping to stave off concern from college savers that 529 accounts are too vulnerable to stock market volatility and expected interest rate hikes, some plan managers are switching up investment choices.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin:</i> S&P Rating Services has released its global financial services literacy test, which uses four questions to test understanding of interest compounding, inflation, and risk diversification. How would you do?
The SEC is scheduled to vote on a piece of the 2012 JOBS Act that will give retail investors access to private equity investing through crowdfunding platforms. That means challenges and opportunities lie ahead for advisers.
Much to the surprise of some market watchers, investors — and thus, financial markets — Monday looked past the brutal terror attacks in Paris on Friday that left 129 people dead and hundreds injured.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i>: Gold jumps, with futures up more than 1% even as riskier assets like stocks find reasons to rally.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i>: The financial markets are likely to be swept up in the immediate unrest following Friday's terror attacks in Paris.
