<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i>: Now that hedge funds have the green light to market their wares, they're zeroing in on independent advisers.
Smart-beta strategies got their latest seal of approval in the form of a $100 million mandate from variable annuity giant Jackson National, which has added the DoubleLine Shiller Enhanced CAPE Fund to its menu of VA investment options.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i>: The biotech stock bloodbath is starting to look like more than just political bluster.
Recent fund performance is leaving higher-profile competitors in the dust.
Stock market volatility drives up the appetite for alternative strategies.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i>: If you can believe it, Janet Yellen is still teasing the markets with the idea of rate hike this year.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i>: A flat return for cash is turning out to be the best bet out there, which should send a message to the Fed and the markets.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i>: If you thought 2014 was a rough year for mutual fund capital gains taxes, you might want to start adjusting those portfolios to avoid a repeat.
The trick is knowing when and where to move in or out.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i>: Turns out, rare trips to the U.S. by a Pope have not always been good for stocks.
