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EQUITIES JUN 09, 2014
Job growth accelerates, pushing unemployment rate to a six-year low

By Andrew Leigh
EQUITIES JUN 03, 2014
A milestone day

Friday's <i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i> menu: A big jobs report, commemorating D-Day. Plus: The SEC tackles HFT, Bill Gross and cell phones, BofA's big fine and ranking the horses.

By Jeff Benjamin
EQUITIES JUN 03, 2014
Prepare for a rocky week in the markets

On today's <i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i> menu: The next four days are going to be big for the markets. Plus: One way to hedge against a correction; bad news keeps coming for Bill Gross; don't wait to collect Social Security; Nick Schorsch's shareholders speak; and digital luggage tags.

By Jeff Benjamin
EQUITIES JUN 03, 2014
Look beyond the noise to economic growth

Investors will need to see continued improvement in economic data to be encouraged to extend their investment horizons and assume greater risk exposure, Nuveen's chief equity strategist Robert C. Doll says.

By Robert C. Doll
EQUITIES JUN 02, 2014
Unhappy with part of your portfolio? You should be

Uncertainty in the market is creating anxiety but investors who are contemplating changing investment strategies to combat potential interest rate volatility should seriously reconsider.

By Zoë Brunson
Letters to the editor: Other views on bond laddering and strategic beta
ALTERNATIVES JUN 01, 2014
Letters to the editor: Other views on bond laddering and strategic beta

A reader disagrees with bond laddering as a safe strategy and another warns of too much 'sizzle' with strategic beta.

By Gregory Crawford
EQUITIES MAY 31, 2014
Investors embrace the risk-on mood and stocks are flying high

Today's menu: Risk is on! Plus: Nasdaq 100 nears 13-year high, Yellen sees housing trouble but can only watch, treating homeownership like a real investment, where money managers are made, and Congress proves to be the sweetest gig of all.

By Jeff Benjamin
MUTUAL FUNDS MAY 29, 2014
Fund managers need a new script for a changing advice business: Consultants

The financial advice business has changed fundamentally, but money managers who depend on advisers for nearly a third of their revenue are stuck in the past.

By Trevor Hunnicutt
EQUITIES MAY 27, 2014
The Fed takes a long-term view of its record $4.3 trillion balance sheet

On today's <i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i> menu: Janet Yellen's Fed will sit on its record $4.3T balance sheet as the QE experiment continues. Plus: A top economist wants the Fed to raise rates now, stock buybacks push markets to the sky, beating short-sellers at their own game, and how not to get burned by pot stocks.

By Jeff Benjamin
EQUITIES MAY 27, 2014
Outcomes making fund management a hard-knock life

In this Take Five interview, Columbia Management's global CIO says outcomes are more than a buzzword and investors expect more than performance.

By Trevor Hunnicutt
EQUITIES MAY 27, 2014
Amid shifting rate policy, rising geopolitical risk, convertible securities could make sense

Some investors looking to reduce downside risk from exposure to the effects of the changing interest rate outlook on equities, bonds and foreign currencies turn to convertible securities. Can they work for you?

By Alan Muschott
MUTUAL FUNDS MAY 27, 2014
Gross's top fund suffered $3.1 billion in losses in April

Bill Gross's Pimco Total Return Fund sustained its 12th straight month of withdrawals in April as the world's largest bond fund continues to trail its peers.

By Matt Ackermann
FIXED INCOME MAY 27, 2014
Pimco overhauls unconstrained fund as Gross takes control

Pimco's Bill Gross has overhauled the firm's Unconstrained Bond Fund since taking over in December. His moves include ditching 30-year Treasuries, boosting corporate debt bets and extending duration. Whether the revamp will help performance remains to be seen.

By Gregory Crawford
MUTUAL FUNDS MAY 27, 2014
New fund takes unconstrained approach to returns

Neuberger Berman product joins ranks of similar funds from Goldman, JPMorgan and Pimco.

By CODONNELL
EQUITIES MAY 23, 2014
The housing recovery is falling flat

On today's <i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i> menu, the housing recovery might have fizzled out. Plus more on junk bond yields, a big Barclays fine and much more.

By Jeff Benjamin
EQUITIES MAY 22, 2014
European stocks hit six-year high on fifth day of rally

<i>Breakfast with Benjamin:</i> Euro stocks rally but for how long?. Plus: The China risk, big money managers are flush once again, the future of airplane seating, and 21 inspirational yearbook quotes.

By Jeff Benjamin
EQUITIES MAY 22, 2014
Ukraine's new resistance to Russia draws attention back to the macroeconomic fallout

<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.

By Jeff Benjamin
EQUITIES MAY 21, 2014
Mutual fund flows: Expect 2013's reversal of trends to continue

How much can the year's surprising mutual fund flows tell us? Leuthold Weeden Capital Management's Kristen Hendrickson takes a deep dive and provides insight into how the rest of the year could play out.

By Kristen Hendrickson
EQUITIES MAY 19, 2014
Finra goes after algorithmic trading trickery

Today's <i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i> menu: Finra targets trading trickery. Plus: Credit Suisse pleads guilty to tax evasion, dealing with the Fed's giant balance sheet, Treasuries vs. gold and 10 great baseball movies to see this summer.

By Jeff Benjamin
EQUITIES MAY 15, 2014
2014's oddly logical bond market rally

<i>Breakfast with Benjamin:</i> The bond market's oddly logical rally. Plus: Retail and professional investors get cautious, gold tops $1,300 an ounce, the income opportunities in deep-water drilling, and clarifying Thomas Piketty's attack on capitalism

By Jeff Benjamin