<i>Breakfast with Benjamin:</i> Talk of an oil comeback is fading fast. Plus: Some good news for gold investors, bankers head for greener pastures, and a St. Patty's Day spelling bee
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin:</i> Some funds using cash for protection. Lots of it. Plus: Adviser charged with stealing $1.3M from widows and church friends, up from the ashes arises a new subprime giant, and Wall Street courts millennials.
Despite being increasingly in-demand from clients like Bryan Wilson (pictured), advisers have been slow to embrace socially responsible investments. <b><i>(Plus: <a href="http://www.investmentnews.com/section/specialreport/20150301/IMPACTINVEST" target="_blank">Our full Impact Investing special report</a>)</b></i>
Advisers and experts say 'the Fed really is hamstrung' by European Central Bankers' planned $50-billion-per-month quantitative easing program, meaning they can't raise or lower interest rates in this environment.
Move launches competition with Goldman Sachs in alternative space
Plus: Learn from the U.S. and invest in Europe, Carly Fiorina chides Hillary Clinton over email excuses, and St. Patrick's Day, American-style
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin:</i> Investors' nerves tested by rate hike talk this week. Plus: Most of the world's major oil projects are doing just fine at current price levels, retirement savings in a nutshell, and the chokehold of consumer debt.
Since 2011, money has flowed almost nonstop into the industry as investors buy into the promise of new drugs. Signs are increasingly pointing toward an end to the boom.
Is there Examining the correlation between success in professional basketball and the economic performance and cultural dominance of particular cities.
Risk management is as important to long-term financial planning as the growth of investments
The top-performing socially conscious funds broken down by category.
Drop in oil prices send the Oracle of Omaha, and his mixed track record on investing in energy, to the exits but he make a play for a Canadian producer and adds to his big IBM stake.
As industry turns to smart beta to capture growth, product developers may need to step up stress testing.
Exchange-traded funds are exceptional tools for allocating client portfolios, but they can lose their effectiveness if implemented incorrectly.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i>: The Fed continues to hem and haw on raising interest rates. Plus: Options-based funds get it done, hedge funder spills the beans on 2015, and the outlook for oil prices is all over the map.
Top-rated fund manager, with better record in bonds than stocks, fond of bold pronouncements.
<b>Breakfast with Benjamin:</b> Where the price of oil is likely to settle. Plus: On the responsibility of retirement plan sponsors and mutual fund directors; don't get blown away by the new jobs report and banks pass stress tests with flying colors.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i>: OPEC might be rethinking their strategy of flooding the market with oil to crush the fracking industry.
Traditional, institutional, buy-and-hold asset allocation model isn't the best fit for all clients.
Most respondents in new survey say they have a financial plan, on the right track but their confidence may be misplaced.
