Government will be a drag on growth as Fed winds down quantitative easing.
<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.
With rates trending downward since the 1980s, the potential rising interest rate environment represents a significant shift for financial advisers &mdash; one that many of us have never experienced.
The era of sluggish growth characterized by Pacific Investment Management Co. chief Bill Gross as the “new normal” is ending, according to one of the firm's deputy CIOs. So what's happening?
Appreciating assets will lead to respectable growth rates and a reduction in unemployment, Pimco chief said in monthly outlook.
Exposure to variable-rate preferred stocks offers dividend income stream that moves with rates.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin:</i> Can Janet Yellen and her Federal Reserve colleagues avoid roiling the markets? Plus: Visa and MasterCard tighten screws on Russian banks, bond ladders get snubbed by a fan of bond barbells, checking the math on alternative-investment performance, and the momentum-stock nosedive is real.
<i>Friday's menu:</i> Investors waking up to Putin's Russia risks. Plus: Russia's debt downgraded as Kerry issues another warning; U.S. manufacturing comes back (but housing has not); how about this call: gold to hit $5,000 an ounce; the SEC starts to dissect liquid alt funds; and how sanctions are supposed to work.
Leader Total Return Fund manager goes off the beaten path to make nimble bets on market and rate patterns.
Take Five with BlackRock's James Keenan, who says risks to the asset class include central bank policy.
They're even interested in international stocks, survey finds.
“The best hedge of a stock portfolio is something that by design moves in the opposite direction of the stock market,” says Sungarden's Isbitts
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin:</i> Sugar-coating data to downplay retirement-income challenges. Plus: Simplified Fed-speak, ETFs continue to threaten active management, leveraged-loan fund investors hit the bricks, and there are still undervalued stocks worth considering.
Fed Chairman Yellen says not to put too much stock in heightened 'appropriate target' funds rate.
The surprising resilience of Treasuries has investors recalibrating forecasts for higher borrowing costs as lackluster job growth and emerging-market turmoil push yields toward 2014 lows.
Weitz Investments calls the stock market tough for active managers and with equities trading at 85% to 90% of fair value, the money manager has socked cash away to take advantage of volatility.
The University of Connecticut plans to sell $220 million of municipal bonds starting tomorrow as its teams are set to play this weekend in the Final Four of the men's and women's national college basketball tournaments.
Growth-oriented stock pickers beat their benchmarks, but how long will it last?
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin:</i> Time to sell stocks? Plus: All you need to know about the Fed's policy decision today, lessons from a Texas-size bankruptcy, lingering effects of the polar vortex, a social media darling trips up, and the latest on Rep. Dave Camp's tax reform plan.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin:</i> Rate clarity from Janet Yellen and the Fed this week could chill volatility. Plus: Someone doesn't like small caps, <i>IN</i>'s big independent broker-dealer report is out, determining what airline to fly, a new cybersecurity warning and two popes are now saints.
