Poor performance could send the income-generating category back to direct investing, where it belongs.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i>: When October's bad, it's usually historically so. But when it's a good month for stocks, the rest of the year is usually a real stinker.
Strategists say pricing anomalies should be considered buying opportunity as Fed action expected to be small.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i>: TV stock barker Jim Cramer received a failing grade from a finance professor for a dismal 28% success rate in picking stocks.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i>: Larry Summers is sounding the alarm for secular stagnation.
New zero-to-100 rating would indicate the environmental, social and governance impact of a fund's holdings.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i>: Carl Icahn's smooth move to try and halt corporate inversions in the name of tax patriotism is, naturally, also pretty good for his own portfolio.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i>: Warren Buffett's distaste for activist investing boils down to simple math.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin:</i> Financial adviser Rick Kahler says advisers could lose clients who expect to be given guarantees. And that's OK.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin:</i> Just because Janet Yellen and the Fed are going to be raising interest rates soon doesn't mean there won't be investment opportunities.
