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.
Periodic market setbacks are inevitable, but the long-term case for equities remains sound
Here's a hint: They're short-term bond funds that can provide safe places to park money, and provide a little yield and return in place of holding cash
Pullback from September not throwing off strong signals for steep downside or big rally.
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.
With all eyes on the Fed, Nuveen's Bob Doll explains why the U.S. market rally should continue.
Careful attention to portfolio construction can keep your clients from making financial decisions driven by emotional reactions.
<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.
Can investors today turn to advisers to awaken their sense of pride in their money and its impact on the market?
As hockey great Wayne Gretzky would say, play your asset allocation where the Fed is going and that means U.S., European and emerging market equities.
In an <i>InvestmentNews</i> exclusive, the Bond King explains his 'constructive obsession' with defeating rivals and answers advisers' burning questions. <b>More coverage: <a href="http://www.investmentnews.com/section/specialreport/20141006/GROSS" target="_blank">Our special report on Gross' next chapter</a></b>
<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.
Lack of liquidity in less-traded corners of the market is the big issue
Adviser Paul Schatz explains how he allocates his own portfolio.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin:</i> Gross leaves and the cash follows. Plus: A new robo-adviser enters the market; Schorsch at it again, with a twist; corporations are healthy, healthy, healthy; oil prices are falling; and Elon Musk's next move.
Just a year after launching the Renaissance IPO ETF, the public-stock-offering research and data-tracking firm is coming out with an international IPO fund.
Today's <i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i> menu covers the U.S. dollar threatening to knock markets off balance, riding an ETF back into commodities, retirement plans turning on the Pimco Total Return Fund, and more.
Some see potential opportunity but prefer to wait for the sizzle to cool.
Today's <i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i> sees stock and real estate bubbles on a collision course, gold prices stuck in neutral, Bill Gross cutting Treasury bond exposure, and much more.
