Given the shiny metal's price volatility, a lower exposure makes more sense, detractors say.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin:</i> Equity investors brace for insight from Janet Yellen and the Fed today. Plus: ETFs chase the freed-up Pimco assets, breaking down the bond market fears, Morgan Stanley says the auto industry's days are numbered, and Warren Buffett makes another safe bet.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin:</i> Gross' message to advisers. <i>Plus:</i> Where the Pimco flows are landing, the stock market rally as house of cards, the dental indicator, bitcoin is back and a big corporate split.
Adviser Paul Schatz explains how he allocates his own portfolio.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin:</i> Gross leaves and the cash follows. Plus: A new robo-adviser enters the market; Schorsch at it again, with a twist; corporations are healthy, healthy, healthy; oil prices are falling; and Elon Musk's next move.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin:</i> The end of QE? Not so fast. Plus: Gold gets the cold shoulder, most European banks pass stress tests, and why you shouldn't get too excited about stock buyback plans.
Just a year after launching the Renaissance IPO ETF, the public-stock-offering research and data-tracking firm is coming out with an international IPO fund.
Today's <i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i> menu covers the U.S. dollar threatening to knock markets off balance, riding an ETF back into commodities, retirement plans turning on the Pimco Total Return Fund, and more.
Some see potential opportunity but prefer to wait for the sizzle to cool.
Bill Gross is leaving Pimco, the company he co-founded, to manage fixed-income portfolios for Janus Capital Group and build out Janus' fixed-income business.
