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INVESTING EQUITIES SEP 17, 2014
A user's guide to this week's "Fedspeak"

On this morning's <i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i> menu, a guide to the Fed's upcoming comments, Calpers sends hedge funds out to pasture, getting on the stock-split bandwagon, and more.

By Jeff Benjamin
INVESTING EQUITIES SEP 17, 2014
Markets wait on the Fed's next move

<i>Breakfast with Benjamin:</i> Investors are waiting for Janet Yellen and the Fed to pull the trigger on rates. Plus: Buying Alibaba via ETFs; S&amp;P and Nasdaq stocks start to separate; hedge funds ride the wave; and annuity product sales hitting double digits.

By Jeff Benjamin
INVESTING EQUITIES SEP 16, 2014
Fed decides to hold tight on rates, and advisers react

The Federal Reserve decides to hold tight on interest rates, and advisers are reacting accordingly.

By Jeff Benjamin
INVESTING EQUITIES SEP 16, 2014
Central bankers are pushing the whole world into stocks

On today's <i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i> menu: Low rates around the world is pushing everyone into stocks. Plus: Where to work if you want a big fat 401(k); the German bund flirts with a negative yield; Australia becomes the new junk-bond haven; and how not to be a horrible boss.

By Jeff Benjamin
INVESTING EQUITIES SEP 16, 2014
Bob Doll: Bond yields are due for a comeback

By Robert C. Doll
INVESTING EQUITIES SEP 15, 2014
The latest separately managed account data

SMAs across sectors, ranked by third-quarter returns.

By Andrew Leigh
INVESTING EQUITIES SEP 15, 2014
Here's why markets shrugged at Obama's message

Complacency is in the stock market, but sentiment alone does not usually have a direct impact on share prices.

By Paul Schatz
INVESTING EQUITIES SEP 15, 2014
Are you prepared to make an exit from the stock market?

By Axel Merk
INVESTING EQUITIES SEP 12, 2014
Biotechs riding high as Ebola diagnosed in the U.S.

<i>Breakfast with Benjamin:</i> Biotechs riding high. Plus: Reading into the market's Halloween indicator, J.P. Morgan steps in another MBS mess, Ford looks like a preview of things to come for stocks, and investing like rich folks, even if you aren't rich yet.

By Jeff Benjamin
INVESTING EQUITIES SEP 12, 2014
Stocks entering spooky time of year but no time to worry

Short-term pullback may have already come and gone while intermediate and long-term prospects remain sound.

By Bloomberg
INVESTING EQUITIES SEP 12, 2014
Some unlikely funds “overweight” Apple

Many value and dividend index funds make a big bet on tech giant's &#8220;smartwatch&#8221;

By Trevor Hunnicutt
INVESTING EQUITIES SEP 11, 2014
Newsflash: Nasdaq is mired in a bear market

Investors starting to avoid companies that will suffer the most when the market stumbles.

By Bloomberg
INVESTING EQUITIES SEP 09, 2014
Investors skeptical as stocks top one record after another

The stock market ain't the party it used to be. It just blasted through one important psychological barrier, and another now looks tantalizingly close. Yet the mood among investors is dour and businesslike.

By Bloomberg
INVESTING EQUITIES SEP 08, 2014
Adviser uses a bond ladder in his own IRA, believes 'safety trumps yield'

Uses Treasury strips for tax purposes, holds stocks inside his Roth IRA, which is also a good tax strategy.

By Jeff Benjamin
INVESTING EQUITIES SEP 08, 2014
This adviser loves stocks, hates bonds

Creative Financial Design's Theodore Feight shares his portfolio

By Jeff Benjamin
INVESTING EQUITIES SEP 05, 2014
Where are the flows?

<i>Breakfast with Benjamin:</i> The stock market rally has not led to equity fund flows. What gives? Plus: Apple's big week; Hertz CEO resigns and the stock rallies; GE sells its appliance unit and the impact of Scotland's independence push.

By Jeff Benjamin
INVESTING EQUITIES SEP 04, 2014
BofA seeks to prove Buffett right after U.S. settlement

Billionaire Warren Buffett predicted Bank of America will become a profit powerhouse once it finally resolves legal battles that have sapped funds and distracted managers. Now we'll find out if he's right.

By Bloomberg
INVESTING EQUITIES SEP 03, 2014
'Don't fight the Fed' was never more true

Tuesday's <i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i> menu includes: It's true: Don't fight the Fed. Also: Alibaba mania is here and so is Apple's big day; Wells Fargo faces possible Finra action and about that Home Depot data breach.

By Jeff Benjamin
INVESTING EQUITIES SEP 02, 2014
Bringing back pooled 401(k) plans could derail a fund industry cash cow

Today's <i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i> menu features: Revisiting the idea of pooled 401(k) plans, plus Jack Bogle gives a half nod to Fed policy, the curious appeal of water ETFs, and more rich folks are calling for a market correction.

By Jeff Benjamin
INVESTING EQUITIES SEP 02, 2014
Morgan Stanley bets big on stocks

<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i> covers Morgan Stanley getting ultra-bullish on stocks, Detroit's big bankruptcy trial kicking off, and how to tread lightly into the MLP space.

By Jeff Benjamin