<i>Breakfast with Benjamin:</i> Apple's earnings will be a focus, but the big question for CEO Cook will be about Carl Icahn. Plus, the emerging markets rout isn't over, why it might be too early to buy the dip, Janet Yellen's Job One and who won big at Sunday night's Grammy Awards.
Weak earnings combine with currency volatility send investors to the exits
Move comes a week after Market Vectors launched identical product
Bond mutual funds in the U.S. posted record investor redemptions of $80 billion in 2013 as investors fled fixed income in anticipation that interest rates will rise further.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin:</i> Will Obama's 'myRA' work? Plus, finding the biggest divident payers, don't bail on stocks now, what you need to know <i>today</i> and enough, already, with the polar vortex.
Bill Gross' love affair with Brazil is ending after 10 years as his bond bets sour from a steep drop in the local currency. The bond king cut Brazil bond holdings in his Total Return Fund to below 4%.
Our own behavioral finance expert has decided to join the crowd and offer a list of forecasts for the year ahead.
It's a tough discussion that's not going away. It's only going to get tougher.
What you need to know to get your Friday morning off to the right start, from InvestmentNews senior correspondent Jeff Benjamin. Today: Bill Gross quacks the whip, look out for the next housing bubble and what's happening to the Euro?
Nicholas Schorsch finally got his prize Wednesday when American Realty Capital Properties Inc. said it had acquired rival Cole Real Estate Investments Inc. in a deal valued at $11.2 billion.
Economist predicts weakness, slow growth will persist in world markets
Underperformance leads large client to pull big money from firm's oldest fund.
The Bond King misjudged the timing and impact of the Fed's plan to cut back its asset purchases, sending Pimco's flagship fund to its biggest drop in almost two decades. The call rippled out to other big Pimco funds.
As the year comes to a close, it's evident that independent broker-dealers are racking up a bonanza from the sale of alternative investment products, namely nontraded REITs. Question is, have firms learned from past mistakes?
Pimco's co-chief investment officer Mohamed El-Erian will be taking the reins of the firm's $3 billion multi-asset fund that has underperformed since its launch in 2008. That should help - the fund is based on a book he wrote.
Mutual fund giant seeing fees, assets decline but 401(k) business strong
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin:</i> Private equity giant KKR finds expanding beyond the HNW crowd is not so easy and shuts two retail-focused funds. Plus: Gold jumps on Yellen preview, fund manager changes lead to Morningstar updates, Barclays cuts 12,000 jobs, and another day, another Obamacare delay.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin:</i> Dr. Doom gets even doomier, using derivatives even when they hurt society, more sluggish economic growth, cashing in on video surveillance, and the pros and cons of free airport Wi-Fi.
