For investors and advisers interested in the fast-growing and sometimes misunderstood fracking space, extreme caution might be the most prudent move. Lax disclosure is one of the problems.
Wall Street continues to intensify its loving gaze on the domain of independent broker-dealers and the alternative investments they're selling. This time, the Street's sights are on nontraded REITs.
Insiders of nontraded REITs typically own far fewer company shares than executives of publicly traded REITS, and that's beginning to influence how B-Ds sell, or don't, their shares. <i><a href="http://www.investmentnews.com/gallery/20131114/FREE/111409999/PH">(<b>Plus</b>: Look inside the ownership of 11 big nontraded REITs)</a></i>
A bitcoin exchange, citing banking and regulatory uncertainty, has suspended trading. But that's not the end of the story as the company sees a silver lining.
Today's Breakfast with Benjamin: Markets brace for big economic data, insider selling at 30-year high, SEC tries to get tough, measuring Fed-speak, and how to behave at the company holiday party. Curated by <i>InvestmentNews</i>' senior columnist Jeff Benjamin
Plus: Emerging markets get dicey, butting heads with Buffett, hedging with ETFs, more Bitcoin buzz
Investor alert warns that 'too good to be true' pitch probably is
Plus: Fed taper could hit savers hard, new scrutiny on company stock in K plans, the stocks hedge funds love and Consumer Report's annual "naughty and nice" list. All in today's Breakfast with Benjamin.
One tech guru says the value and promise of bitcoin can completely revolutionize the global economy and has the potential to bypass banks altogether.
What's <i>InvestmentNews</i> senior columnist Jeff Benjamin reading this morning? Whether your clients need long-term care insurance, hedge funds loading up on GM stock, Greenspan calls Bitcoin a bubble, JPMorgan confirms cardholders were hacked and Britain gets bullish. Breakfast with Benjamin is served.
Ventura Wealth Management's strategy analyzes 40 different asset classes as part of an ongoing asset-rotation technique designed to emphasize the potential of the top five asset classes.
Recent history shows why and how diversification and active strategies not only work but are necessary.
"Challenging" market environment leads to slightly lower price for ARC IV.
Most respondents to a Natixis survey said they use alternatives sparingly and stick to strategies that can be explained to clients more easily.
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.
Sales of nontraded REITs and other illiquid securities are surging even as stocks hit record highs. Talk about diversification.
