Betterment's director of behavioral finance and investing says cash isn't a good investment for anything other than the very short term.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i>: Having a maxed-out 401(k) is a good problem to have, but saving for retirement shouldn't end there.
Blue chip barometer likely to get more volatile after the March 19 switch.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin:</i> Earnings signal flashing red, sending some investors to the sidelines, Gross sets a timeline, Bernanke wants the president to have more power, ETF investors hedge currencies and chase corporate bonds, and the first-year numbers behind Colorado's legal weed.
Tuesday's <i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i> features an adviser sentenced to 51 months of jail time for stealing from elderly clients. Plus: Bill Gross doesn't see a rate hike till late in the year, the latest bet for oil, and a don't-miss webcast sets the stage for 2015.
Issuance of green bonds hit $36.6 billion last year, more than six times the $6 billion issued in 2012
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i>: These plans are all the rage, but whether they provide any benefits to shareholders is a whole different issue.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i>: The bar will keep rising for banks as mixed stress test results come in for some of the world's largest banks.
Drag the vertical slide left and right to compare how life has changed since 2000, the last time the popular index hit 5,000.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i> A record Merrill Lynch signing bonus might have pushed its monetary limit. Plus: Loving European stocks but hating the euro, taking a fresh look at gold, and protecting the nest egg from rising drug costs.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin:</i> Hospital-stock rally sparked by high court's Obamacare debate. Plus: The dollar continues to soar; how to follow the big money; and bailing out college debt is a bad investment.
Changes could spark revolt, but 'when Congress needs dollars, they're going to get them,' one adviser says.
Everyone knows what inflation is, but deflation is another story. What questions should investors be asking?
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin:</i> Talk of an oil comeback is fading fast. Plus: Some good news for gold investors, bankers head for greener pastures, and a St. Patty's Day spelling bee
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin:</i> Some funds using cash for protection. Lots of it. Plus: Adviser charged with stealing $1.3M from widows and church friends, up from the ashes arises a new subprime giant, and Wall Street courts millennials.
Despite being increasingly in-demand from clients like Bryan Wilson (pictured), advisers have been slow to embrace socially responsible investments. <b><i>(Plus: <a href="http://www.investmentnews.com/section/specialreport/20150301/IMPACTINVEST" target="_blank">Our full Impact Investing special report</a>)</b></i>
Advisers and experts say 'the Fed really is hamstrung' by European Central Bankers' planned $50-billion-per-month quantitative easing program, meaning they can't raise or lower interest rates in this environment.
Move launches competition with Goldman Sachs in alternative space
Plus: Learn from the U.S. and invest in Europe, Carly Fiorina chides Hillary Clinton over email excuses, and St. Patrick's Day, American-style
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin:</i> Investors' nerves tested by rate hike talk this week. Plus: Most of the world's major oil projects are doing just fine at current price levels, retirement savings in a nutshell, and the chokehold of consumer debt.
