Life insurance and annuity carriers are focused on growing distribution through brokers. Direct-to-consumer sales, though, reign king.
Safe haven currencies, bonds and metals soothed some wounds.
The rule changes will likely result in dramatically higher fees for many smaller clients, and one bond shop is already reacting.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i> The saga of a Moore Capital fund manager involves a $27,000 Airbnb rental, a $1 million lawsuit, and “dwarfs with Champagne guns."
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i> DoubleLine's Jeffrey Gundlach says a Donald Trump presidency would be bad for bonds, but good for stocks.
Traders are pricing in higher chances that the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates some time this year after U.S. economic reports signaled improving growth.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i> Larry Fink has been critical of the buyback trend, but that hasn't stopped BlackRock from buying back $275 million worth of its own stock on a quarterly basis.
OppenheimerFunds, Franklin Templeton maintain big exposure to the troubled island's debt.
Warren Buffett, the world's third-richest person, shed $11.3 billion as Berkshire Hathaway Inc. had its first negative annual return since 2011.
First Eagle Overseas Fund's large cash holdings gives it a 'leg up' when markets turn choppy.
Advisers tried to prepare investors for Friday's wild ride as global markets digested the United Kingdom's surprising vote to exit the European Union after 43 years.
Following record MetLife fine, regulator says VAs are now at the core of their focus: complex products marketed to seniors.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i> Liquid alternative strategies are growing up, and that means some growing pains.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i> What does it say about the U.S. stock market when it reacts so violently to the Brexit vote, and then just puffs right back up again?
The Boston fund giant is lowering expense ratios on 27 index funds and ETFs.
Supporters of 529 plans want tweaks to law that caps fund changes at two per year, which could spur adviser interest in managing them.
The larger trend toward passive investing, as well as cost-consciousness on the part of plan sponsors and general industry push to lower expense ratios, are at play.
