With the recent wild market swings, it is not surprising people are talking about VIX exchange-traded products, which track derivatives on an index that goes up when there is fear in the market. But it can be risky.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i>: Investment manager Joseph Zada could face 20 years in prison after being convicted for bilking ex-Detroit Red Wings star Sergei Fedorov (pictured) out of $43 million.
The current correction gives the bears the most ammunition to claim that a new bear market has started. But don't jump to conclusions just yet because history suggests otherwise.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i>: The stock market is clearly shaky, but trying to time it is a fool's game.
The stock market roller-coaster ride showed some signs of relative calm Wednesday, but not all market watchers are ready to claim the worst is over.
In the face of a spike in market volatility, the two firms are doubling down on surprisingly bullish predictions that the S&P 500 will close out the year notably higher than where it started.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i>: CalSTRS, the country's second-largest pension fund, considers moving $20 billion out of traditional investments and into alternatives.
Researcher cites four examples of extreme market moves that failed to derail the recovery.
With the stock market's correction no longer a matter of if, some market watchers and financial advisers have taken to preaching a sense of calm as investors hunker down for a heretofore rare bout of volatility, not a bear market.
Big gains in Sears, St. Joe help $5.9 billion fund avoid heavy losses as stocks drop.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i>: Nontraditional bond funds that sounded too good to be true are looking like a bust, so far.
Amid market volatility, more mutual funds are playing it safe, but should they be sitting on the sidelines?
A fund with a limited number of stocks might outperform in volatile markets
They're less expensive than their U.S. counterparts and can lower portfolio volatility.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i>: All the messy stock market turmoil of the past few weeks has created a sweet opportunity in the closed-end funds space.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i> DoubleLine's Jeffrey Gundlach thinks that as painful as it's been over the past week, the markets still need a thorough housecleaning.
Reducing downside risk as traditional strategies bite the dust amid market meltdown.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i>: William Dudley, president of the New York Fed, says delaying a rate hike until 2016 'will be awkward.'
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i>: Now that the dust has started to settle, China's stock market meltdown doesn't seem all that awful.
A long-anticipated move by the Fed to raise interest rates next month would be “very strange,” given the volatility rocking financial markets, according to the top bond strategist for Charles Schwab's retail research unit.
