<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.
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.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin:</i> When it's OK to convert to a Roth IRA. Plus: Two emerge as Buffett successors; recognizing seasoned financial veterans, and Asian stocks get a boost from Chinese bankers.
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As industry turns to smart beta to capture growth, product developers may need to step up stress testing.
Rock star portfolio manager's new addition is the 26th exchange-traded fund launched this year but is possibly the most important as test of active management.
Judges said the firm must face a class-action lawsuit on mortgage debt in bond funds.
Federal Vice Chairman Fischer says the central bank is most likely to raise interest rates in June or September, although economic developments might warrant different timing for liftoff.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i>: The bond market and the Fed are suddenly marching in lockstep, with inflation clarity coming soon.
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.
<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.
Investors may be taking a wait-and-see approach to the fund, which received an estimated $85.6 million in January.
For investors worried about how stocks will react to rising interest rates, last week's trading may provide some guidance. To wit: Following the biggest one-week jump in 10-year Treasury yields in more than a year, investors are selling the highest-yielding companies in the S&P 500.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i> features the Federal Reserve being caught between a rock and a hard place on rate hikes. Plus: Greeks vote to kick the can down the road, Obama's tax grab looks like a blueprint for the future, and a billionaire tells Americans to spend less money
