Portfolio manager Wally Weitz's bets on Warren Buffett and telecoms mogul John Malone have helped his fund produce the best risk-adjusted performance among U.S. value funds in the past five years.
Today's Breakfast with Benjamin: Bernanke sees low rates for a long, long time; holiday retailers on the ropes; SAC Capital jury selection; investigating fishy employment data; coal becomes the next tobacco-style villain
Today's Breakfast with (<i>InvestmentNews</i> senior columnist Jeff) Benjamin: SEC targets advisers; hedging with gold mining stocks; new muni bond math, and how athlete IPOs pull a hammy.
Largest IPO by a technology company since Facebook in May 2012 values the microblogging company at $14.2 billion. At $26 each, above the offering price, shares to begin trading on the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday.
Obamacare may be off the debt ceiling agenda but for investors, there is an exchange-traded fund that holds all the businesses likely benefit. It's had a good run so is there still upside potential?
Sales of nontraded REITs and other illiquid securities are surging even as stocks hit record highs. Talk about diversification.
Nontraded REIT Cole Real Estate shareholders OK a listing on the New York Stock Exchange. The stock will begin trading tomorrow but the price is still uncertain.
Will focus on liquid alternatives education as money manager launches new fixed income fund.
China's economic reform blueprint stokes markets. Plus: Strategies for early retirement, how Tim Geithner is getting really rich, the bleeding edge of biotech, and women flood the U.S. labor market. Expertly curated by <i>InvestmentNews</i> senior columnist Jeff Benjamin.
Today's Breakfast with Benjamin: The regulator tells the mutual fund industry to stop promising safety and protection. Plus, the QE government bonanza, JPMorgan's Twitter beatdown, SAC Capital trial could go inside the hedge fund.
Thanks to the threat of rising rates, it's no longer a set-it-and-forget-it world. Now advisers have grabbed the core bond fund crown from Bill Gross and Jeffrey Gundlach, taking control over their own bond portfolios.
Firms developing series of multistrategy, multimanager offerings under new venture.
Highbridge Capital Management LLC, the JPMorgan Chase & Co. unit that manages about $31 billion, is starting an Asia hedge fund, returning to the market more than two years after shutting a predecessor fund.
After settling with five independent broker-dealers in May over nontraded REIT sales practices with a $6.1 million deal, Massachusetts' top securities cop, William Galvin, has closed Round 2. Bruce Kelly has the latest details.
Says change for consistency, not effort to distance company from Armstrong.
GOP's tax cuts leave $2.5B revenue hole; race to zero
Global markets start the week strong, thanks to U.S. economic news. Plus: Schwab IMPACT coverage, Wall Street prophets, Veterans Day. Expertly curated by <i>InvestmentNews</i> senior columnist Jeff Benjamin.
The much talked about 'great rotation' to stocks from bonds is a flawed theory because the correlation isn't direct, according to Sanford C. Bernstein. That means investors expecting a pop in stocks could be in for a disappointment.
Gold's precipitous drop brings it to a key level, $1,200 an ounce. Some experts think this is the worst it will get for the precious metal. Does that mean now's the time to buy?
