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.
Nontraded REIT Cole Real Estate shareholders OK a listing on the New York Stock Exchange. The stock will begin trading tomorrow but the price is still uncertain.
Will focus on liquid alternatives education as money manager launches new fixed income fund.
China's economic reform blueprint stokes markets. Plus: Strategies for early retirement, how Tim Geithner is getting really rich, the bleeding edge of biotech, and women flood the U.S. labor market. Expertly curated by <i>InvestmentNews</i> senior columnist Jeff Benjamin.
Today's Breakfast with Benjamin: The regulator tells the mutual fund industry to stop promising safety and protection. Plus, the QE government bonanza, JPMorgan's Twitter beatdown, SAC Capital trial could go inside the hedge fund.
Firms developing series of multistrategy, multimanager offerings under new venture.
Highbridge Capital Management LLC, the JPMorgan Chase & Co. unit that manages about $31 billion, is starting an Asia hedge fund, returning to the market more than two years after shutting a predecessor fund.
