Today's <i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i> features Gen Y and Gen X causing the the pace of 401(k) plan contributions to hit new heights. Plus: The ABCs of a hot REIT market, biotech stocks under the microscope, and something you might have in common with Bill Gates.
According to the fund giant, investors are taking on portfolio risk not seen since 1999 or 2007, and advisers need to adjust client expectations for low-return markets.
With oil down 50%, talk of tail events is bubbling up again. Be prepared when clients ask about them.
Today's <i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i> features the case for investing in Russia looking great, at least on paper. Plus: Hedge funds are still shorting oil, will the big snowstorm close the financial markets, and how to pick the right IRA for your clients.
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.
