<i>Breakfast with Benjamin:</i> Four hot markets right now; investors turn their focus to Europe; the SEC stops an adviser; a digital currency cautionary tale; dark pool transparency (thanks, Finra); and World Cup fever.
Early equals wrong and it isn't until the masses buy every dip that bull markets begin to top out.
Responding to a letter from an activist investor, Nicholas Schorsch says he will keep building the company but his acquisition pace will slow. <i>(And on Monday, <a href="http://www.investmentnews.com/article/20140602/FREE/140609990" target="_blank">ARCP shareholders rejected Schorsch's executive comp plan</a>)</i>
On Friday's menu: What's next on Yellen's to-do list. Plus: Small-cap stock weakness as a leading indicator, an SEC official dishes on PE funds, big banks are loving big mortgages, three finance questions you better be able to answer, and getting by on $6,000 an hour.
Money manager Brian Schreiner digs into the questions raised by the firestorm over Michael Lewis' book "Flash Boys" and claims that the stock market is rigged and comes up with some answers. Some questions can't yet be answered, though.
Bob Doll, Nuveen's chief equity strategist doesn't see big head winds for stocks or the economy this year, forecasting mid- to high-single-digit equity gains this year. What about tapering?
Deputy chief investment officer has inside track to succeed 'Bond King' as CIO
Today's <i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i> looks at what's propelling REITs into their position as the year's hottest market sector, plus emerging market stocks' record month, Japan's inflation woes, and much more.
Amid the stock market's selloff, adviser Paul Schatz has been getting asked whether the bull is dead and a full-blown, multi-year correction is beginning.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin:</i> Brokers pouncing on 401(k) biz. Plus: The Clintons dodge the estate taxes they support. The Fed wants to add exit fees to bond funds, U.S. banks on the edge of new funding rules, Congress mulls investor confidence on your dime, El-Erian sides with the IMF, and merger mania is alive and well.
Fund performance sagged as assets ballooned and performance sagged &ndash; but the manager says his bad bets were the culprit.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin:</i> BlackRock calls Ukraine a market threat. Plus: JPMorgan gets a slap on the wrist from Finra, Yellen ponders fuzzy unemployment data, where the gold rally is headed from here, and the emergence of subprime business loans.
Bank loans, business development companies, REITs and options strategies are just some ideas.
First of all, there's no evidence that professionals make better investment decisions than individual investors.
It isn't crazy to consider the potential of marijuana stocks as investments. But as weed's legality remains in flux, investors might want to steer clear.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin:</i>Oil spikes as Iraq's stability crumbles. Plus: Hedge funds bristle at Obama's latest executive order, the significance of the Dow at 17,000, how active managers are helping index investors, and quantitative analysis is being applied to golf scores.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin:</i> Buffett doubles down on green. Plus: ECB stimulus gains traction, Apple shares at less than $100, Alibaba IPO risks, when prostitutes become currency traders, and how to buy Scotch for your dad.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin:</i> Bill Gross' controversial new strategy. Plus: BlackRock CEO Fink calls out leveraged ETFs, nobody can agree on the gold-price decline, dealing with lump-sum pension offers, a solar company that makes sense, and the various forms of a caffeine addict.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin:</i> LPL's Jeffrey Kleintop on how to spot a bear. Plus: Challenges of a bond bull, being a hedgie, Millennials hate stocks, roads into solar panels and Chicago's airport nightmare.
