Weak economic numbers and an Ebola panic spurred a pullback, causing the S&P 500 to give back the year's gains.
Analyzing the current equity and fixed income scene to identify potential growth areas
Stock price of money manager more than doubled since 2012 with new CEO and cost cuts as inflows return
Move comes on heels of record withdrawals from Pimco Total Return after Gross exit
Central banks' efforts to fuel inflation have pushed up financial assets, rather than prices in the real economy.
Chances high for a year-end rally but if bears take control, longer-term bets could be at risk.
Pattern of investors moving out of stocks could be set for balance of the year and into 2015.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i>: The bitter economic costs of cheap oil, plus notes on taking advantage of the rising dollar, avoiding bond funds like the plague, and running toward market volatility.
One upside to the stock market carnage of the past week or two is that the wildly popular alternative-strategy mutual funds, better known as liquid alts, have finally been tested on the open road.
Claims over the firm's Puerto Rican bond funds exceed $900 million, three times as much as in the first quarter, and plaintiffs' attorneys say the number will probably climb higher.
Recent global economic and political turmoil leads to doubt about forecasts from Federal Reserve officials &mdash; and most Wall Street economists &mdash; that the Fed will begin to lift its benchmark interest rates in mid-2015.
Money manager instituted or lowered voluntary caps on share classes of its Low Duration, Core Bond and Total Return funds.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin:</i> What will Janet Yellen and the other Fed policy makers say, and how will investors react? Plus: Why focus on the Fed at all? And traps to avoid on the way to success, Facebook earnings, private equity risks and Game 7
50-basis-point intraday swing Oct. 15 caused by investors betting on rising rates - and bailing out
Last week's purchases illustrate the growth over the last few years in investment options tied to social improvements.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin:</i>Finance-focused ETFs suffer huge outflows. What gives? Plus: Prudential Financial's spooky reinsurance bet, investing in obesity, private lawyers give corporate inversions a leg up, and location matters less when the house you're selling is haunted.
On today's <i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i> menu: Investors banking on holiday spending. Plus: Less-secure Social Security, when gold and platinum run in stride, Facebook is now bigger than IBM, and the tired saga on endless office meetings.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i>: The Fed tries to inject a sense of calm in the market, Mohamed El-Erian passes on Pimco, all economists get it wrong, a global currency war is unfolding before our eyes, and more.
