Amid the stock market's selloff, adviser Paul Schatz has been getting asked whether the bull is dead and a full-blown, multi-year correction is beginning.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin:</i> Brokers pouncing on 401(k) biz. Plus: The Clintons dodge the estate taxes they support. The Fed wants to add exit fees to bond funds, U.S. banks on the edge of new funding rules, Congress mulls investor confidence on your dime, El-Erian sides with the IMF, and merger mania is alive and well.
Fund performance sagged as assets ballooned and performance sagged &ndash; but the manager says his bad bets were the culprit.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin:</i> BlackRock calls Ukraine a market threat. Plus: JPMorgan gets a slap on the wrist from Finra, Yellen ponders fuzzy unemployment data, where the gold rally is headed from here, and the emergence of subprime business loans.
Bank loans, business development companies, REITs and options strategies are just some ideas.
First of all, there's no evidence that professionals make better investment decisions than individual investors.
It isn't crazy to consider the potential of marijuana stocks as investments. But as weed's legality remains in flux, investors might want to steer clear.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin:</i>Oil spikes as Iraq's stability crumbles. Plus: Hedge funds bristle at Obama's latest executive order, the significance of the Dow at 17,000, how active managers are helping index investors, and quantitative analysis is being applied to golf scores.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin:</i> Buffett doubles down on green. Plus: ECB stimulus gains traction, Apple shares at less than $100, Alibaba IPO risks, when prostitutes become currency traders, and how to buy Scotch for your dad.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin:</i> Bill Gross' controversial new strategy. Plus: BlackRock CEO Fink calls out leveraged ETFs, nobody can agree on the gold-price decline, dealing with lump-sum pension offers, a solar company that makes sense, and the various forms of a caffeine addict.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin:</i> LPL's Jeffrey Kleintop on how to spot a bear. Plus: Challenges of a bond bull, being a hedgie, Millennials hate stocks, roads into solar panels and Chicago's airport nightmare.
What's for <i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i>? The Iraq crisis hits another asset but in a good way. Plus: Oil spikes to nine-month high, a looming student loan crisis, how Goldman cashed out early on Alibaba, and a tribute to dads.
At annual meeting, CEO faces down analysts who say shareholders would gain more value if the big bank broke off Mellon.
Newly listed American Realty Capital Healthcare Trust being snapped up by giant health care REIT Ventas in a stock and cash deal valued at $2.6 billion.
Divergent tone of the two famously cost-conscious investment firms illustrate the contentious nature of the technical and political debate over high-frequency trading.
For <i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i> today: Regis as a hedgie? Plus: No recession in sight; keeping it loose in Europe; debating monkey business; a Pimco PM hangs it up for a food truck and complaining about gas prices.
Friday's <i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i> menu: A big jobs report, commemorating D-Day. Plus: The SEC tackles HFT, Bill Gross and cell phones, BofA's big fine and ranking the horses.
On today's <i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i> menu: The next four days are going to be big for the markets. Plus: One way to hedge against a correction; bad news keeps coming for Bill Gross; don't wait to collect Social Security; Nick Schorsch's shareholders speak; and digital luggage tags.
Investors will need to see continued improvement in economic data to be encouraged to extend their investment horizons and assume greater risk exposure, Nuveen's chief equity strategist Robert C. Doll says.
