Bond yields are beginning to move back toward familiar territory, which provides a reminder that bonds were never really designed to provide high returns. They were and are designed to provide security. In other words, the party is over.
Plus: Individual investors zig as professionals zag, hedging the U.S. market by going global, Citigroup in the spotlight, and futbol mania
Personalized financial advice should take cues from the robo-adviser trend/
Tax restrictions on mutual funds need a close eye to avoid a whack from Uncle Sam.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin: </i>Citi under the FBI microscope. Plus: Using P/E ratios to dispel bubble theories, re-calculating the size of the nation's oil reserves, big banks and big overdraft fees, GM and political grandstanding, and it's always a good time to teach kids about money.
An in-depth look at managed futures, which can be a confusing asset class for investors and advisers alike.
Consider the followings ways in which having deeper conversations about client goals might make your job easier and improve your clients' behavior.
As stocks cross a symbolic threshold, advisers fear clients' rushing in at potential market peak.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin: Why there's no excitement for this stock rally. </i>Plus: Fee-only RIAs in the catbird seat but they can't relax; the active ETF world heating up; what QE has wrought; on Phil Mickelson and insider trading; and Apple's big day.
At its annual conference, the ICI contended that mutual fund investors would be hurt by risk designation
Sarah Bianchi, the director of economic and domestic policy for Vice President Joe Biden, was hired as a managing director in its advisory unit.
Low-cost index funds capturing 25% of new assets but drive just 5% of revenue.
New unit will influence product selections for 15,000 advisers managing $1.6 trillion in assets.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin:</i> Carl Icahn warns that stocks are on risky ground. Plus: Interest rates and volatility are raising red flags, one man's take on the Fed-fueled bubble, the SEC is watching for political-donation conflicts, gold gets no respect, and institutional money is chasing solar energy stocks.
In this Take Five interview, Raman Srivastava, manager of the Dreyfus Opportunistic Fixed Income Fund talks about what advisers should look for in an unconstrained, or go-anywhere, bond fund.
At ICI conference, Mary Jo White discusses money markets, FSOC.
The SEC appears to be pushing ahead with its money market mutual fund reform. The question remains which funds will escape the agency's float proposal; for brokerages and retirement plans, the devil is in the details.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin:</i> Barclays: Following in the footsteps of Sallie Krawcheck. Plus: The volatility play: Cheap but risky, bond managers brace for higher rates, dancing around the issue of student loan debt, and a potato salad venture whets the tax man's appetite.
Barry Ritholtz sees a market correction as inevitable, but lays out reasons why investors and advisers shouldn't fear its arrival.
