Jeff Benjamin

Jeff Benjamin is a senior columnist who primarily writes about investments and practice management as they relate to the wealth management industry. In addition to news and opinion writing, Jeff also does regular video interviews and is the co-host of The InvestmentNews Podcast, a weekly show that takes listeners behind the scenes of our coverage. He joined InvestmentNews in 2000. Prior to InvestmentNews, Jeff’s career included working as an analyst at Cerulli Associates, and as a reporter for Dow Jones Newswires. Jeff is based in North Carolina and when he isn’t working, he can usually be found playing golf or fishing. Jeff is a former Marine and has a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Central Michigan University.

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RIA NEWS APR 09, 2014
Market stems sell-off but volatility is here to stay

Financial advisers agree investors need to stay calm and avoid knee-jerk selling

EQUITIES APR 09, 2014
The IPO market continues to sizzle and the latest is a doozy

<i>Breakfast with Benjamin:</i> The latest IPO candidate has filed, and its numbers are 'insane.' Plus: Currency traders on their way to extinction, hedge fund managers boost gold bets (mostly), small cap strategies rule, two powerful women on Wall St. could be out of work and an Olympic update.

EQUITIES APR 08, 2014
Ally Financial IPO is banking on short investor memories

<i>Breakfast with Benjamin:</i> One IPO hoping investors have a short memory. Plus: Bracing for weaker earnings, here comes Fed meeting minutes, bond market opportunities, shoving investors toward behavioral finance and refusing LinkedIn requests.

EQUITIES APR 08, 2014
Viewing Alcoa's earnings season kick-off in a high-tech light

<i>Breakfast with Benjamin:</i> An old manufacturer goes high tech and why its earnings still matter. Plus: Emerging-markets stocks bounce as the dollar slides; the stock market's frayed nerves; and a little corporate board turnover can go a long way toward stock performance.

EQUITIES APR 08, 2014
Bank ETFs ride the choppy waves of Yellen-speak

<i>Breakfast with Benjamin:</i> Bank ETFs ride the choppy waves of Yellen-speak. Plus: Still waiting for Treasury yields to spike, new love for intermediate-term bond funds, hot stocks ahead of earnings reports, and even gold bugs are starting to worry about the precious metal's decline

EQUITIES APR 08, 2014
Investors adopt a defensive stance to wrap up 1Q

<i>Breakfast with Benjamin:</i> At some point in the first quarter, investors got defensive. So what does that mean now? Plus: It's all about Friday's jobs report, Michael Lewis calls out the stock market for being rigged, Obamacare investing risks and opportunities, and will Janet Yellen spook the market again?

RIA NEWS APR 08, 2014
When BRICs go bust, investors head toward frontier markets

<i>Friday's menu:</i> Where investors go when BRICs crack. Plus: How advisers can &amp;mdash; and should &amp;mdash; deal with male and female clients, mounting sanctions drive Russia toward China for economic help, investor class-action lawsuits spike, and saving money on travel.

EQUITIES APR 08, 2014
Markets wake up to China's economic slowdown

<i>Breakfast with Benjamin:</i> Markets wake up to China's economic slowdown. Plus: Soros deters British EU exit, an all-ETF retirement portfolio, rethinking cash-rich tech companies, undervalued Wall Street banks, and test your investor profile (for fun).

ALTERNATIVES APR 07, 2014
Look out, Lipper and Morningstar, hedge fund tracking firms gathering data on alt mutuals

Aside from competition, it's a sign that liquid alternative investments are here to stay

ETFS APR 02, 2014
Morningstar's Mansueto sees big opportunity with ByAllAccounts

In a Take Five interview, Morningstar CEO Joe Mansueto says the firm has a big opportunity with its ByAllAccounts acquisition to go beyond advisers and is also well-positioned in liquid alts space.