Friday's <i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i> features: Bill Gross is selling bonds. Should you? Plus: Finra might go inside to replace Fienberg; the markets' muted reaction to Obama; pump and dump; more money flows to hedge funds; and Cantor's way of commemorating 9/11.
Today's <i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i>: What Scotland's 'no' vote might mean for the markets, Alibaba's IPO prices in record territory, the 'dumb money' is getting smarter, and gold continues to slide.
Calpers decision raises questions about high hedge fund fees, even as those funds are evolving
Fat commissions could be trimmed if states approve regulations affecting the sale of nontraded real estate investment trusts.
If major institutions cannot justify hedge fund investing, where should advisers turn for alternative asset exposure?
Mark Goldberg of IPA praises regulator's action to extend clarity to investor statements.
Company provides SEC- and Finra-compliant paperless processing systems to financial services firms.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin:</i> The Bond King levers up. Plus: There is nothing smooth about the Fed's next move, the first nail in hedge funds' coffin and more.
On this morning's <i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i> menu, a guide to the Fed's upcoming comments, Calpers sends hedge funds out to pasture, getting on the stock-split bandwagon, and more.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin:</i> Investors are waiting for Janet Yellen and the Fed to pull the trigger on rates. Plus: Buying Alibaba via ETFs; S&P and Nasdaq stocks start to separate; hedge funds ride the wave; and annuity product sales hitting double digits.
By year end, RCAP expects to consolidate business groups across 9 B-Ds.
Pension fund began restructuring real estate portfolio in 2010; has 11% target allocation for FY16.
Most advisers got involved in managed futures after stocks' poor performance in 2008 but walked right into another poor market environment, this time for managed futures themselves.
State securities regulators are making noise about implementing changes to policies that would limit how much a client's net worth could be invested in nontraded real estate investment trusts. Those limits would have helped clients in the case of a Louisiana broker who now has a Finra complaint.
Wary advisers are taking a closer look at F-Squared Investments, the largest manager of exchange-traded-fund portfolios, which is under investigation for misrepresenting past returns.
A correlation between the alternative rock of the '80s and '90s and alternative mutual funds.
The owners of Gemini Real Estate Advisors have dueling claims against each other.
Regulators are notorious for dragging their feet, and investors suffer when new rules take too long to be finalized.
In today's <i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i>, bond experts weigh in on the state of the bond rally, hackers find nothing to steal from Obamacare site, the Fed goes after Libor and another reminder to diversify into alternatives.
