Plus: Central bankers have altered the financial world, the ABCs of smart-beta due diligence, and seven steps to transforming your advisory practice
Plus: The end of hedge fund fees, a mutual fund for the marijuana industry, and the economics of not getting married.
NYSE, Nasdaq and Bats want to address four goals, with an emphasis on reducing and improving procedures around trading halts.
Investors continue to ignore market hedging strategies.
Plus: Trump vs. Clinton tax plans, American household debt, and how to survive retirement
Plus: Barclays predicts bad things ahead, active v passive REIT ETFs, and there is no escaping that student loan debt
Plus: The fallout from cheap oil is widespread, the downside of a good jobs report, and drone racing
Plus: Brexit bust, SEC nabs doc for insider trading, and double your retirement savings
Plus: Breaking the active management habit, the active-passive research conundrum, and recalculating retirement savings calculators
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i> Based on their own rhetoric, this is how Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump would impact your wallet, if they win the White House.
Plus: Gold investors love this Fed, really cheap ETFs, and an alternative to summer reading
Real estate-focused exchange traded funds attracted $1.5 billion in new money in June, followed by $1.3 billion the month before, according to FactSet.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i> Investors are flocking to junk bond ETFs, showing another leg of risk-on investing.
Plus: Indexers take over the world, building trust with clients, and some summer reading ideas for advisers
Forty-six percent of managers now believe U.S. stocks are overvalued, according to the investment manager's survey.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i> It's a brighter growth outlook, not low rates, that's fueling the latest rally.
Some advisers tweak the model, others remain pure.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i> Should you care if a portfolio manager is investing in a fund he or she is managing? It depends.
Advisers should recognize and capitalize on the different needs and priorities of Gen X versus millennials.
