<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i>: Hedge fund bulls go big on oil. What do they know, or think they know?
Fixed-income foundation pushed fund to the top of the large-value category.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i>: A 25% pay raise to $22.5 million means it's good to be Morgan Stanley CEO James Gorman.
Twin Securities CEO David Simon said in a letter on Tuesday that he has "deep reservations" about the existing board and their ties to Nicholas Schorsch.
Guggenheim launches new salvo in bond laddering method of investing for a rising rate environment with a few wrinkles.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i>: State Street gets poor marks from financial advisers, despite dedicated efforts to mend fences and build new relationships.
Applying the same set of tools for all fixed-income options will lead to confusion, bad investments and disappointment.
How ETFs are faring compared to mutual funds, which ETF companies are winning (and losing) and which investment categories investors are favoring
It has become the ultimate stock-pickers market
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i>: No longer blaming earnings shortfalls on the weather, CEOs are now passing the buck to the strong dollar.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i>: The firm is closing or consolidating 20 money market funds with $200 billion in assets.
In longest-running arbitration case in 20 years, panel rules leveraged derivative investment was unsuitable.
Prudential Investment Management CEO David Hunt echoes JPMorgan's Jamie Dimon in warning about shortage of U.S. Treasuries.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i>: Now might be a good time to start bracing for a Greek default, as the probability has never been as high.
Brokers who sell index funds may get a leg up from newly proposed requirements that would impose more stringent advice standards.
The answer to which strategy is best will depend on the scenario in question.
In spite of all the turmoil and risk, emerging markets are growing. Rapidly.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i>: Bill Gross calls out the 10-year German bund, but you'll want to wait more than a year for the end of Europe's easing.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin:</i> Japan takes over as America's biggest creditor but China is right behind. Plus: More banks abandon student loan biz, Colorado's weed tax bummer, and where banking is still beyond at least 2 billion people.
It's important to position portfolios both to gain from rising U.S. Treasury yields and to hedge against global risks in the bond markets.
