Sugar-coating the data to downplay retirement-income challenges
Breakfast with Benjamin: Sugar-coating data to downplay retirement-income challenges. Plus: Simplified Fed-speak, ETFs continue to threaten active management, leveraged-loan fund investors hit the bricks, and there are still undervalued stocks worth considering.
- The real retirement income crisis could be that people are being led to believe they are saving enough and are on track for a bountiful retirement. Is the financial services industry promoting this message? Economic modeling vs. real data
- Learning from experience, the Fed dials back the rhetoric and dumbs down the message in an effort to prevent knee-jerk reactions. Real and perceived miscommunications
- Cheap and high-performing, ETFs are proving to be a big headache for managers of traditional active strategies. Riding the wave of volatility
- Leveraged-loan funds are starting to see the downside of the new direction of Fed policy. When the junk-loan market takes a breather
- Under-valued stocks for under $10. When earnings grow faster than the stock price
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