Plus: Most consumers are optimistic about improved household finances next year, embracing a contrarian investing strategy, and what the Dow was like in the beginning
MLPs move back into the spotlight for patient investors
Steven A. Cohen is poised to make a return to the hedge-fund industry by 2018 under an accord with U.S. regulators that settles allegations that the billionaire failed to supervise a convicted insider-trader at SAC Capital Advisors.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i> Morningstar's John Rekenthaler clarifies after recently referring to market-timers as “circus clowns minus the funny suits.”
Good infrastructure products are unlikely to wildly outperform equities, but they're also unlikely to create serious losses
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i>: Smart beta was the top financial search term on Investopedia in 2015, and for good reason.
Hedge-fund assets contracted by $95 billion to $2.87 trillion during third quarter amid a surge of fund closures.
BlackRock CEO Larry Fink gives Federal Reserve chairwoman Janet Yellen rave reviews for her speech following the Fed's move to raise interest rates.
Flip-flopping the weightings of the traditional Dow 30 stocks
The firm's settlement with the states was reminiscent of how broker-dealers handled various settlements in paying clients who bought auction rate securities.
Three lessons for advisers from the closing of the Third Avenue Focused Credit Fund.
Turmoil in financial markets may slow the U.S. economic expansion. But it probably won't kill it.
Cerulli sees ETF assets more than doubling to $6T by 2020
Third Avenue Management LLC received approval from U.S. regulators to temporarily suspend redemptions from its $788.5 million high-yield bond fund.
Fund closure could put the spotlight on fixed-income ETFs, which are vulnerable because they are more liquid than their underlying assets.
SEC cites lax oversight of subadviser data.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i>: This week's rate hike could hit the markets in a half dozen, mostly bad, ways.
After peaking way back in 2014 and declining ever since, the high-yield bond market finally has made national news over the past week with the very high profile blow up of the Third Avenue Focused Credit Fund.
Some advisers swear by it, while others shun it as useless legalese.
The Federal Reserve raised interest rates for the first time in almost a decade in a widely telegraphed move while signaling that the pace of subsequent increases will be “gradual” and in line with previous projections.
