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PRACTICE MANAGEMENT MAY 29, 2015
SEC seeks public comments on exchange-traded products

Regulator wants feedback on listing, trading and marketing of ETPs.

FIXED INCOME MAY 29, 2015
The other thing keeping bond investors awake at night

<i>Breakfast with Benjamin:</i> There is something else fixed income investors need to worry about, if a Fed rate hike weren't enough, and Wall Street is sounding the alarm.

EQUITIES MAY 29, 2015
Not so fast on the interest rate hike

<i>Breakfast with Benjamin:</i> One Fed governor says the economy isn't moving in the right direction to support a rate hike (even though factories in the U.S. are expanding).

EQUITIES MAY 29, 2015
June gloom looms for stocks: A buying opportunity?

<i>Breakfast with Benjamin:</i> June has been a bad month for stocks and this year looks to continue the pattern. So should you buy any dips?

The heavy downer of seeing GDP revised downward
EQUITIES MAY 29, 2015
The heavy downer of seeing GDP revised downward

<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i>: A downward revision of first quarter GDP can be called an aberration, but that won't make it any less bad.

Inflation report boosts odds of September rate hike
EQUITIES MAY 29, 2015
Inflation report boosts odds of September rate hike

Rise in consumer prices gives the Fed another reason to act this year.

ALTERNATIVES MAY 29, 2015
Liquid alts' drawback: High cost

Index based on social media sentiment gives new weight to tweets
EQUITIES MAY 28, 2015
Index based on social media sentiment gives new weight to tweets

Tapping into the fear and greed of the crowd.

EQUITIES MAY 26, 2015
China ETFs plunge as investors fear regulators will curb markets

The largest U.S. exchange-traded funds tracking Chinese dropped sharply on concern the nation's equity markets will retreat after posting world-beating rallies as policy makers take measures to slow gains.

Vanguard finds another way to get its ETFs in your clients' hands
RETIREMENT PLANNING MAY 26, 2015
Vanguard finds another way to get its ETFs in your clients' hands

With new presence in the ETF strategist game, Vanguard wins Envestnet, Cambridge and more retirement-plan business.

ALTERNATIVES MAY 25, 2015
As bond top looms, investors seek alternatives

Private core real estate, a staple of institutional investing, can fill the gap for income, return.

EQUITIES MAY 24, 2015
Smaller economies offering bigger returns in the emerging markets sector

Investors are finding bonds with plumper yields, and stocks that beat the S&amp;P 500

EQUITIES MAY 24, 2015
When investing in emerging-markets economies, stock picking beats indexed exposure

Investing in specific companies is the best approach, but it entails more risk

EMERGING MARKETS MAY 24, 2015
Emerging-markets debt market offers more than yield

Fixed-income securities are increasingly diverse and their credit quality has improved markedly

EQUITIES MAY 22, 2015
Americans are saving more these days and that's not necessarily a good thing: Fink

<i>Breakfast with Benjamin:</i> BlackRock CEO Laurence Fink says low rates are pushing more Americans to boost savings as their fear of retirement security increases, thanks to low rates.

The real reason the Federal Reserve isn't raising interest rates
RETIREMENT PLANNING MAY 22, 2015
The real reason the Federal Reserve isn't raising interest rates

<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i>: The real reason the Fed is sitting on its hands boils down to a lousy employment market.

Financial markets can smell a rate hike coming
EQUITIES MAY 22, 2015
Financial markets can smell a rate hike coming

<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i>: Equity markets are abruptly adjusting to the notion that the Fed might finally get off the sidelines.

Hold on to 30-year Treasuries or even add some more, portfolio manager says
FIXED INCOME MAY 22, 2015
Hold on to 30-year Treasuries or even add some more, portfolio manager says

Western Asset Management boosts holdings of longer-dated U.S. government bonds to levels not seen since the end of 2014.

Economic growth is fading fast in the so-called recovery
ALTERNATIVES MAY 22, 2015
Economic growth is fading fast in the so-called recovery

<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i>: The pace of the country's economic recovery is becoming more of a riddle than a reality.

Exclusive: Jeffrey Gundlach warns advisers on 'unconstrained' bond funds
ALTERNATIVES MAY 22, 2015
Exclusive: Jeffrey Gundlach warns advisers on 'unconstrained' bond funds

DoubleLine Capital founder warns advisers that unconstrained managers are taking too much risk.