<i>Breakfast with Benjamin:</i> Financial adviser Rick Kahler says advisers could lose clients who expect to be given guarantees. And that's OK.
After its third-straight weekly advance, the S&P 500 is on track for its best month in four years but investors are heading for the exits in a big way.
MSCI plans to add nearly two-dozen foreign-listed companies, including two of China's biggest, to its global indexes.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin:</i> Just because Janet Yellen and the Fed are going to be raising interest rates soon doesn't mean there won't be investment opportunities.
When China sneezed last quarter, the world caught a cold but smart investors found opportunity.
The risk of misreading global and domestic economic context.
Benchmark hugging will not benefit most investors, so advisers must look far and wide for opportunity.
Potential is there to meet investors' objectives of capital preservation, growth and income without taking on unacceptable risk
Parallels between now and 1987 are thin at best
But performance of the alternative asset class still ahead of stocks.
$1.4 billion TAMP seizes on an opportunity, but its strategy seems ill-conceived.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin:</i> Warren Buffett's top stock picks are not doing well this year. A temporary blip or has the Oracle of Omaha lost his touch?
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i>: A dead asset no longer, gold shines bright above its 200-day moving average for the first time in five months.
Record-setting Dell-EMC deal is just the beginning.
Insurer is trying to capitalize on big growth seen among asset-allocation products in the DC market and betting managed accounts become more widely used.
How much to allocate is both an unanswerable question in general and one that absolutely needs to be addressed for each client. </br><b><i>(More: <a href="http://www.investmentnews.com/section/specialreport/20151011/ALTS2015" target="_blank">IN's Spotlight on Alternative Investments special report</a>)</b></i>
Sector already feeling wrath of nervous investors, gets second look after presidential contender's comments spark big drop.
Deteriorating demographics, low productivity growth and a need for more deleveraging will keep a lid on rates for the foreseeable future.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i>: Top hedge fund manager Michael Novogratz (pictured) hits the bricks, and the firm is closing its flagship macro hedge fund.
