These are the bets that saved or ruined portfolios in 2014. Beware: There's absolutely no guarantee they'll do the same thing next year.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i>: Could $20 oil really happen? According to Citigroup, It's impossible to call a bottom point. Plus: Morningstar crowns the 'best' liquid alts fund, another oil producer feels the pain, and the case for active management gets stronger.
2015 is shaping up to be a better year for active equity management.
Advertising in the Super Bowl doesn't mean a company is a good investment, as generally there's been no connection between an advertiser shelling out millions for a 30-second commercial and the company's stock price.
In Friday's <i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i>, the downside of a multi-year bull market in stocks: Investors get overconfident. Plus: If oil drops to $30 look out below, not all hedge fund workers are rich, and what the IRS is looking for now.
Popular category for yield-starved investors posts first quarterly decline in two years.
Service provide plans to expand investment opportunities for its network of advisory firms
Combined firm will include 36 funds and $27 billion under management.
Big bets, currency exposure might surprise some investors
From a big year for European equities to precious metals and bonds, here are some ideas of where value may lie in 2015.
Six years into the bull market, losses booked from the financial crisis have all been used up.
Europe is a focus while selective emerging markets show promise, Templeton Global Equity strategists say.
Lack of wage growth stoking fears of disinflation while Fed prepares to lift interest rates
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin:</i> Tax hikes for the rich? Plus: European central bankers load up for their own quantitative easing, Russia is fading fast, and Switzerland has another trick up its sleeve.
What the U.S. energy boom has given, the U.S. energy boom is about to take away if oil prices stay at or below current levels, according to DoubleLine Capital's Jeffrey Gundlach.
As recovery reaches another phase, stocks remain poised to benefit from improving growth trends.
Supreme Court is reviewing a decision on the responsibility of plans to continually watch costs
Financial advisers who found ways to mute the effect of the surging U.S. dollar on clients' foreign investments weathered the last year well. Those who didn't suffered.
On Monday's <i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i>, the U.S. economy reclaims the post of global growth engine, though the Federal Reserve remains all quiet on the rate hike front. Plus: How to invest when a rosy jobs report hurts stocks, Goldman picks a list of losers, and millennials go home for financial advice.
MSCI will allow some companies with overseas stock-market listings in its equity indexes, opening the door to China's Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. while excluding Russian firms amid economic sanctions.
