Regulator still reviewing industry comments on rule to give investors better handle on share values.
Eight new funds offer chance to wager on the riskiest to safest corporate borrowers.
On Friday's menu: What's next on Yellen's to-do list. Plus: Small-cap stock weakness as a leading indicator, an SEC official dishes on PE funds, big banks are loving big mortgages, three finance questions you better be able to answer, and getting by on $6,000 an hour.
Nontraded REIT industry backs Finra's proposed disclosure rule but wants implementation pushed out to late 2015.
Acquisition of Corporate Property Associates 16 Global is industry's latest liquidity event.
With heady momentum after a record year of sales, nontraded REITs are expected to be popular with advisers and investors again in 2014 but new regs and climbing interest rates could dampen enthusiasm.
Today's <i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i> looks at what's propelling REITs into their position as the year's hottest market sector, plus emerging market stocks' record month, Japan's inflation woes, and much more.
Fund performance sagged as assets ballooned and performance sagged &ndash; but the manager says his bad bets were the culprit.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin:</i> BlackRock calls Ukraine a market threat. Plus: JPMorgan gets a slap on the wrist from Finra, Yellen ponders fuzzy unemployment data, where the gold rally is headed from here, and the emergence of subprime business loans.
Nick Schorsch's RCS Capital is building the second-largest independent broker-dealer network &mdash; 9,000 registered reps and financial advisers &mdash; through several acquisitions it announced last year.
Strategy seeks to take advantage of rising rates; performance solid.
Hedge funds had a decent year in 2013, with an average gain of 7.4%. But they still fell short of the S&P 500's advance by 23 percentage points last year, the biggest gap since 2005.
Houston radio host George Jarkesy charges the regulator denied him due process in a fraud case.
It isn't crazy to consider the potential of marijuana stocks as investments. But as weed's legality remains in flux, investors might want to steer clear.
Former AIG Life and Retirement executive to oversee nonfinancial operations at alternative investment shop.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin:</i>Oil spikes as Iraq's stability crumbles. Plus: Hedge funds bristle at Obama's latest executive order, the significance of the Dow at 17,000, how active managers are helping index investors, and quantitative analysis is being applied to golf scores.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin:</i> Buffett doubles down on green. Plus: ECB stimulus gains traction, Apple shares at less than $100, Alibaba IPO risks, when prostitutes become currency traders, and how to buy Scotch for your dad.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin:</i> LPL's Jeffrey Kleintop on how to spot a bear. Plus: Challenges of a bond bull, being a hedgie, Millennials hate stocks, roads into solar panels and Chicago's airport nightmare.
