With the stock market's correction no longer a matter of if, some market watchers and financial advisers have taken to preaching a sense of calm as investors hunker down for a heretofore rare bout of volatility, not a bear market.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i>: Nontraditional bond funds that sounded too good to be true are looking like a bust, so far.
Financial advisers would be wise to bone up on the asset class because they'll be getting sales pitches.
Bond market liquidity is drying up — something every investor and financial adviser should take seriously. But liquidity risk can also provide an additional source of returns.
Regulator says Finra and MSRB should issue rules 'requiring the disclosure of mark-ups and mark-downs.'
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i>: All the messy stock market turmoil of the past few weeks has created a sweet opportunity in the closed-end funds space.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i> DoubleLine's Jeffrey Gundlach thinks that as painful as it's been over the past week, the markets still need a thorough housecleaning.
Reducing downside risk as traditional strategies bite the dust amid market meltdown.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i>: William Dudley, president of the New York Fed, says delaying a rate hike until 2016 'will be awkward.'
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i>: Now that the dust has started to settle, China's stock market meltdown doesn't seem all that awful.
A long-anticipated move by the Fed to raise interest rates next month would be “very strange,” given the volatility rocking financial markets, according to the top bond strategist for Charles Schwab's retail research unit.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i>: Despite the mood on Wall Street getting downright gloomy, some economists still think the Fed will raise interest rates next month.
<i>InvestmentNews</i> survey shows most financial professionals in "wait and see" mode, while some consider rebalancing. <i>(Don't miss: <a href="//www.investmentnews.com/article/20150824/FREE/150829959/investors-react-to-news-of-1000-point-fall"" target=""_blank"" rel="noopener noreferrer">Investors react to market's move</a>.)</i>
Crossover approach includes taxable and tax-exempt bonds.
Clients likely felt the pang of crashes past during the early Dow drop this week, but, believe it or not, they are continuing to watch for opportunities.
Options prices indicate skepticism but Pimco says Federal Reserve's rate increase bar is 'fairly low.'
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin:</i> A Fed official put some of the central bank's post-financial crisis actions under a magnifying glass and found they have done little to boost the economy.
Four big behavioral factors that are at play in investors' concerns about rising interest rates.
China's Shenzhen Composite Index, having more than doubled in 2015, began declining about a week after the legendary bond manager made a prediction that Chinese stocks were overheated and poised to fall, and it has since plunged about 27%.
Bill Gross, who recommended shorting the Chinese stock market last month before it plunged, didn't actually do the trade. Instead he wagered against both the S&P 500 emerging market currencies.
