Friday's Breakfast with Benjamin featuring what big investors are doing with their cash. Plus: Bracing for an SEC exam, robo-adviser asset-gathering update, stocks to watch next week, and more ways to spend bitcoin.
This just in: SecondMarket, where shares of private companies such as Facebook Inc. traded before they went public, has launched the first U.S. fund investing solely in the Bitcoin virtual currency.
Alternative investments are 'increasingly becoming core,' strategist says
Last week's string of positive U.S. economic data is once again drawing attention to the direction of gold prices. What will trigger the precious metal's next valuation move?
Investors may almost triple the amount of capital they put into hedge funds this year, an annual survey by Deutsche Bank AG showed.
Active strategies, diversification work and are necessary
Today: Who will be happy with Obama's budget blueprint? Plus, a contrarian idea for stocks, tapering already, gold, GMATs and g-forces.
CEO and COO also ordered to pay $175,000 in penalties .
Dennis Stattman, manager of BlackRock's global allocation fund, has made advisers look smart and has kept clients happy thanks to 25 years of outperformance.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin:</i> Tesla races ahead of the rest of Wall Street as the Fed talks rate increase. Plus: What firm stands to win big in the Facebook-WhatsApp deal; wealthy investors take interest in some unusual currencies other than Bitcoin and who manages your mortgage?
The next 12 months look promising across the energy efficiency, renewable energy, water and waste recovery sectors, buoyed by a broad-based cyclical recovery from the deepest downturn in living memory.
Advisers could benefit as retail investors load up on alts.
Six new liquid alternatives funds are part of firm's effort to help advisers handle risk.
Nicholas Schorsch's RCS Capital acquires liquid alts firm Hatteras Funds, giving the real estate mogul the potential to widen the distribution of his growing lineup of investment products.
Proposed rule would require brokers to factor in fees and commissions when listing share prices on client account statements; if approved by the SEC, rule change would do away with the $10-a-share listing price.
Inland American Real Estate Trust, the largest nontraded REIT with $9.5 billion in assets, may soon be in line for a merger or listing of its shares, a move dubbed a “liquidity event” in the business. <i>(Don't miss: <a href="//www.investmentnews.com/article/20131227/FREE/131229967"" target=""_blank"" rel="noopener noreferrer">Will the 2013 banner year last through 2014?</a>)</i>
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin:</i> What's with the Oracle of Omaha's hedge fund bet? Plus: Friday's freaky jobs report preview, public pensions gained 16% last year, Twitter earnings raise concerns, and investing in income inequality.
Some optimistic, others skeptical about plan to scrap the automatic per-share value of $10.
