Three principles that can help advisers manage yield responsibly for clients.
Carl Icahn criticized asset management firms such as BlackRock for selling ETFs that give an illusion of liquidity for “extremely illiquid, and extremely overpriced” securities such as high yield bonds. But BlackRock CEO Larry Fink disputed the characterization.
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.
Three ways advisers can utilize bond ETFs to ride out whatever waves the Fed's long-deferred action might kick up.
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>: The financial markets are likely to be swept up in the immediate unrest following Friday's terror attacks in Paris.
Markets are expected to experience some immediate, but short-term, volatility if the Federal Reserve decides to raise interest rates in December.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i>: Nation's largest public pension fund trims its real estate holdings with a $3B sale.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin:</i> Ground Control to Major Yellen. Commencing countdown, engines on. The Fed's October meeting minutes stress a potential December liftoff for rates.
If you have a short-term view on high yield, an exchange-traded fund might be right for you. But if you want long-term exposure, ETFs are a terrible choice.
Hike could potentially drive up the value of the dollar to the point where it weakens the economy, fund manager says.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i>: Even though it's designed and expected to be apolitical, the Federal Reserve is becoming a popular target of political attacks.
DoubleLine's Jeffrey Gundlach plans a new global bond fund just as a potential Fed hike could create new risks and opportunities for managers.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i>: Susan Elizabeth Walker was sentenced to more than seven years in prison for taking over $1 million from clients' accounts.
Manager is hoping to garner assets in a crowded market through a strategy targeting the stability of investors' retirement income stream.
Active managers have made small changes on the margins of their TDF portfolios, which could give them a short-term advantage over passive managers.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i>: The numbers are in, and it turns out the $12.4 trillion worth of quantitative easing has only worsened inequality.
Comments from Fed chair Janet Yellen and solid October jobs report has futures traders betting on sooner rather than later hike.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i>: The specific things to watch for in today's jobs report that could influence the Fed's decision on interest rates.
