Adopting a long/short approach before interest rates rise could be a good defense for investors
$6.1 billion yanked through the middle of March; withdrawals on pace to top the record $8.6 billion pulled in June '13 after taper tantrum
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i>: Foreign mutual funds might be a good hiding spot for investors as U.S. stocks peak in cost.
The company expects the tax-exempt index fund to be available by the end of June.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin:</i> Real estate prices climbing sharply and investors are taking the blame. Plus: Fed preps for the unfamiliar waters of a rate hike, biotech looks to be correcting, and which rock star investor are you?
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i>: Will higher interest rates crush the real estate market, or is it supposed to be different this time?
Mutual fund elder statesman doesn't mince words when discussing active management, and he worries about ETFs.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i>: The president's 2016 budget lets workers tap into their 401(k)s penalty-free once unemployment runs out.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i>: The wicked-fast pace of the dollar's rise has markets on edge, with other currencies unable to adapt fast enough.
Fund giant also plans to launch lower-cost institutional series to expand its market reach.
Betterment's director of behavioral finance and investing says cash isn't a good investment for anything other than the very short term.
Betterment's director of behavioral finance and investing says cash isn't a good investment for anything other than the very short term.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin:</i> Earnings signal flashing red, sending some investors to the sidelines, Gross sets a timeline, Bernanke wants the president to have more power, ETF investors hedge currencies and chase corporate bonds, and the first-year numbers behind Colorado's legal weed.
Uncertainty about when the central bank will begin to raise interest rates has advisers sticking to their fixed-income guns.
Tuesday's <i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i> features an adviser sentenced to 51 months of jail time for stealing from elderly clients. Plus: Bill Gross doesn't see a rate hike till late in the year, the latest bet for oil, and a don't-miss webcast sets the stage for 2015.
Issuance of green bonds hit $36.6 billion last year, more than six times the $6 billion issued in 2012
At a recent BlackRock event, fund manager Rick Rieder told about 100 advisers that he expects interest rates to remain low. The talk was enough to persuade at least one adviser to shift even more client money from Pimco to BlackRock.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i>: The bar will keep rising for banks as mixed stress test results come in for some of the world's largest banks.
Distinguishing between bonds that suffer price declines but no change in quality from those that could suffer permanent damage.
'Abe-enomics' joins quantitative easing with corporate patriotism
