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.
Union says shareholders will end up footing the bill for $45 million in transaction fees from merger with Kite Realty.
Money manager relies on individuals saving for retirement, rising stock prices to offset institutional withdrawals.
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.
American Realty Capital Centers will concentrate on multitenant shopping centers.
Annuities, individual municipal bonds and equities in the pharmaceutical sector hold good prospects for clients seeking retirement income.
Uncertainty in the market is creating anxiety but investors who are contemplating changing investment strategies to combat potential interest rate volatility should seriously reconsider.
A reader disagrees with bond laddering as a safe strategy and another warns of too much 'sizzle' with strategic beta.
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.
Nicholas Schorsch, chief executive of American Realty Capital, this month plans to list shares of two more of the company's nontraded real estate investment trusts, saying the market is 'primed' for real estate offerings.
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.
The financial services industry has a number of two-word combos that could use some scrutiny, like "liquid alternative." Here are some things to think about when considering how to use a liquid alts fund for income.
RCS Capital continues to expand its reach into financial services, hiring Todd Snyder and John Kearney, widely considered the top due-diligence analysts for alternative investments and nontraded REITs.
Five-year rally restores $14 trillion to U.S. equity values, helping push participation rate of working Americans to 40-year lows.
The most hated stocks are proving to be the best performers, knocking money managers for a loop, with more than 80% of growth and value funds trailing their benchmarks. Remember the old adage about past performance? It's true.
The falloff in social media stocks is burning investors who piled into one of last year's most popular exchange-traded funds.
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.
In this Take Five interview, Columbia Management's global CIO says outcomes are more than a buzzword and investors expect more than performance.
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?
At least 70 mutual funds across various fixed-income categories have more than 4% allocated to stocks, according to Morningstar. On the extreme end, almost half of those bond funds have equity weightings of between 10% and 63%.
