<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i> - The Federal Reserve's QE sleight of hand, cheap oil's winners and losers, Schwab bringing advisers premium Morningstar access, and more.
Weak economic numbers and an Ebola panic spurred a pullback, causing the S&P 500 to give back the year's gains.
Just because the stock market hasn't suffered a major pullback in a while doesn't mean the resurgence of volatility is going to send financial advisers ducking for cover, even when the Dow dives 300 points.
Analyzing the current equity and fixed income scene to identify potential growth areas
Deal will give advisers access to sector reports and pick lists, as well as daily, weekly and quarterly outlook reports.
Stock price of money manager more than doubled since 2012 with new CEO and cost cuts as inflows return
Move comes on heels of record withdrawals from Pimco Total Return after Gross exit
Central banks' efforts to fuel inflation have pushed up financial assets, rather than prices in the real economy.
After Nicholas Schorsch's giant traded REIT, American Realty Capital Properties, <a href="http://www.investmentnews.com/article/20141029/FREE/141029916">revealed a big accounting debacle</a>, one large broker-dealer network temporarily put a stop to sales of one of Mr. Schorsch's nontraded REITs.
The chief financial officer and chief accounting officer of the Nicholas Schorsch-controlled real estate giant are out after company uncovers $23M in accounting errors in recent financial statements that it says were intentionally not fixed.
Head of the agency's Division of Investment Management will leave before the end of the month
Chances high for a year-end rally but if bears take control, longer-term bets could be at risk.
The revelation of accounting errors at Nick Schorsch's flagship REIT, American Realty Capital Properties, could not have come at a worse time. Here's why. <i>(Also: <a href="http://www.investmentnews.com/article/20141030/FREE/141039985/national-planning-holdings-puts-kibosh-on-arc-nontraded-reit-sales" target="_blank">BD puts kibosh on ARC nontraded REIT sales</a>)</i>
SEC official tells alternative mutual funds to define principal strategies for investors.
Pattern of investors moving out of stocks could be set for balance of the year and into 2015.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i>: The bitter economic costs of cheap oil, plus notes on taking advantage of the rising dollar, avoiding bond funds like the plague, and running toward market volatility.
One upside to the stock market carnage of the past week or two is that the wildly popular alternative-strategy mutual funds, better known as liquid alts, have finally been tested on the open road.
Nicholas Schorsch's own broker-dealer joined the wave of B-Ds bailing out of the REIT czar's products.<i>(Also: <a href="http://www.investmentnews.com/article/20141105/FREE/141109966/with-stock-off-sharply-schorschs-rcs-capital-says-were-not-arcp" target="_blank">Schorsch's RCAP to investors: 'We're not ARCP.'</a>)</i>
