On today's <i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i> menu: Obama's attempt to embrace and shun markets. Plus: Volatility awakens nervous investors; crowdfunding and crowd funding; building your own hedge fund made easy; and bacon prices soar because we Americans just love that greasy stuff.
Investors in both bonds and stocks had to look far and wide to post gains last month.
Nine of Pimco's 15 largest mutual funds are beating at least 75% of peers so far this year, according to data compiled by Chicago-based research company Morningstar Inc. None of those top performers are managed by Chief Investment Officer Gross. Of the four funds trailing more than half their rivals, three including the Pimco Total Return Fund are run by the 70-year-old investor known as the bond king.
Thursday's stock market sell-off eases, but some advisers see the potential for rising volatility and a correction.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin:</i> Market volatility headed your way. Plus: Hidden ETF risks, Buffett hoards cash, SEC whistleblowers come out of the woodwork, the upside of passive real estate investing, and how Millennials blow through their money.
Today's <i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i> looks at what the jobs report could mean for stocks, Argentina's strategy of denial and Federal Reserve data cherry-picking.
S&P 500 posts first monthly loss since January; Dow erases gains for the year.
Underlying risk metrics suggest the Pimco Total Return Fund continues to have a tough time beating competitors.
Jumping on trend, UK bank follows on the heels of Sallie Krawcheck's new fund launched last month.
Guggenheim says the global rise of the middle class could yield returns for U.S. investors.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin:</i> Argentina defaults. Plus: Fund managers deal with Argentina bond exposure; the Fed's-eye view of unemployment; fallout from Russian sanctions; San Bernardino goes to pot; and a cannabis stock rally adds a new twist to buying high.
The market's resiliency underscores its solid foundation, emphasizes critical underpinnings of monetary policy, corporate earnings.
How should you factor in global turmoil into your client's portfolios? Well, for starters, Russian stocks look cheap but should be underweighted while Israeli stocks offer potential upside.
Day after Obama authorizes new round of air strikes in the Middle East, oil drops. What gives?
A clearer picture of value can improve the space for investors.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin:</i> How to get into stocks. Plus: One veteran trader's big worries; why you need to have a business continuity plan; high quality bonds are scarce; no summer doldrums this wee; and a lesson from the king. Burger King.
Ailing fund company boasts many of the most successful alts products in the mutual fund business, but is it enough as its core bond business suffers?
Many Americans are making smart moves with their investment portfolios by favoring foreign stocks over domestic ones. But it's not because they've suddenly become savvy.
American Spectrum Advisors, the adviser to the American Spectrum REIT I Inc., this month offered to buy 1.6 million shares of the moribund REIT for $1.25 per share. The shares were originally sold for $10 per share.
Protege of star manager Dan Fuss outperforms her former boss but her track record is short.
