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<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i>: The firm files suit against the Financial Stability Oversight Council, charging them with acting as 'judge, jury and executioner.'
Other fund companies may find it difficult to match Vanguard's promise of access to a hot market.
Firm sees new way to cut the middleman, product fees for clients while capturing top investment ideas.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin:</i> The richest and most powerful Arab nation opens its $570 billion stock market to the world.
$5.3 billion flows into bond mutual funds in first week of June, even as yields continue to rise
Billionaire activist investor says the market continues to misunderstand the maker of iPhones and iPads, which should buy back more of its stock.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i>: The worst part about the bond market selloffs in the U.S. and Europe is the not knowing why.
He plans to get by with a lot of help from consumers
Sudden volatility could create short-term buying opportunity.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i>: Welcome to the upside-down world of too much liquidity creating illiquidity.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i>: Even if the Fed isn't sure when they'll occur, retirees should be bracing for rising interest rates.
Some advisers are getting in on the rally, but others are staying diversified.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i>: More Fed handwringing is coming, as concern that the Fed already missed its chance to raise rates persists.
Mutual fund popularity fades as the bull market lives on.
The end of aggressive repurchase plans could be the end of the market's run.
Still blaming the weather and the strong dollar for the economy's sluggishness, advisers see Fed Chairwoman Yellen in a pickle.
Advisers must weigh risks against rewards of investing in the high-flying Chinese stock market.
Eliminate over-allocations to the U.S. market by encouraging plan sponsors to add international options to menus and explaining diversification benefits to participants.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin:</i> One Fed governor says the economy isn't moving in the right direction to support a rate hike (even though factories in the U.S. are expanding).
