On Wednesday's <i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i> menu: The Fed dons rose-colored glasses. Plus: Junk bond yields get scary low, commodity hedge funds fall out of favor, what you need to know about stock buyback ETFs, and the inequality mob is driving the rich to hoard cash
Agreement creates a titan in ETF indexes and gives Russell fund business a new owner.
While there's no real evidence that ETFs pose a systemic risk, they can hold some pretty exotic stuff. Perhaps the unique dangers of some ETFs should be flagged more prominently. How about a movie-rating-style approach?
Even as the technical barriers are eclipsed, doubts remain over cost and utility.
Passively managed portfolios of low-cost ETFs for 'core' portion of an investor's holdings.
SPDR DoubleLine Total Return Tactical exchange-traded fund to compete with Bill Gross' Total Return ETF.
Today's <i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i> looks at what's propelling REITs into their position as the year's hottest market sector, plus emerging market stocks' record month, Japan's inflation woes, and much more.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin:</i> Bill Gross' controversial new strategy. Plus: BlackRock CEO Fink calls out leveraged ETFs, nobody can agree on the gold-price decline, dealing with lump-sum pension offers, a solar company that makes sense, and the various forms of a caffeine addict.
Surprising comments by Fed chief Janet Yellen on rate hikes gave bond markets a bad scare.
The expansion of iShares Core brings down expense ratios but doesn't eliminate the need for solid due diligence.
Investors considering using ETFs that seek to magnify return of a given index need to understand the risks, says S&P Capital IQ's Todd Rosenbluth.
The falloff in social media stocks is burning investors who piled into one of last year's most popular exchange-traded funds.
<i>Friday's menu:</i> Ukraine heats up and fund winners and losers come into focus. Plus: Fed-speak clarity: an oxymoron? Bank loan funds fall victim to Fed policy, Obamacare drags us back to the 1950s and banks square off with Big Labor in Vegas.
ETF investors say BlackRock keeps too much of the proceeds from securities-lending business.
SEC says company overstated performance of its flagship ETF over a seven-year period, and it charged the former CEO for making false and misleading statements.
On today's <i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i> menu, the latest step the Obama administration is taking to push back against Russia, plus just how much support the Clintons have among Dow Jones Index companies, and much more.
Putting market-cap indexes in perspective.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin:</i> Investors' nerves are fraying and that's not a good thing. Plus: Spiking demand for U.S. Treasuries, dodging corporate taxes, the ABCs of liquid alts, risk-adjusted sector performance, and boning up on your Cinco De Mayo history.
Deutsche Bank AG's asset management unit has started the first U.S.-based exchange traded fund that allows investors to buy Chinese stocks trading in both the domestic and foreign markets.
Transparency a minor issue, says RevenueShares' Vince Lowry
