<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i>: Do-it-yourself bond traders have become much more than just a nagging headache for Wall Street's big boys.
Annual college basketball tournament gives boost to restaurants such as Buffalo Wild Wings, beer makers and bars; retail sales for food-service and drinking places rise more in March than rest of the year.
On today's <i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i>, Wall Street wannabees sweat over the results of the December CFA test. Plus: Obama turns tail on 529 tax plan, Gundlach dishes on his own bad trades, and chicken wings might be the best Super Bowl investment.
Attractive yields aside, real estate investments wrapped in a mutual fund are not bonds.
Stocks capped the worst week since January, with the S&P 500 clinging to a ninth straight quarterly advance amid a run of futility not seen in 20 years and the Nasdaq reverses after stalling 10 points shy of its dotcom peak.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i>: As the equity markets start to wobble, analysts start to claim they saw it all coming.
Fidelity's te Wildt says Fed will hike slowly, warns advisers on unconstrained bond funds.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i>: HSBC thinks the strong dollar is poised to run out of steam, though it might just be wishful thinking.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i>: As the dollars get thrown around the mud starts flying, you might as well invest along for the ride.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i>: It's important to understand the scary downside of an extremely strong U.S. dollar.
$44.6 billion DoubleLine Total Return Fund manager says central bank should hold off on raising rates; gives a nod toward gold, India equities and shorting the dollar.
Nontraditional investment could benefit from long-term trends, values-based investing: CIO Bartels.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin:</i> Real estate prices climbing sharply and investors are taking the blame. Plus: Fed preps for the unfamiliar waters of a rate hike, biotech looks to be correcting, and which rock star investor are you?
Six years into a bull run that has seen the S&P 500 more than triple, it's time to recognize the potential benefits of active management over indexing.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i>: Smart beta is here to stay, so you might as well try and figure out what the heck it is.
Mutual fund elder statesman doesn't mince words when discussing active management, and he worries about ETFs.
Emerging trend could change the way advisers view income and growth.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i>: The wicked-fast pace of the dollar's rise has markets on edge, with other currencies unable to adapt fast enough.
Fund giant also plans to launch lower-cost institutional series to expand its market reach.
Betterment's director of behavioral finance and investing says cash isn't a good investment for anything other than the very short term.
