<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i>: The bond market selloff has sparked fears that the Fed might not hike rates today.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i>: Just when the Fed felt it was safe to move off a zero-rate policy, all kinds of heck is busting loose in the high-yield bond market.
Plus: JPMorgan's David Kelly second-guesses the Fed, MLP investors hang on for dear life, and Joe Montana gets his VC groove on
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i>: More than a third of the outstanding U.S. high yield and leveraged loan universe is at risk in a rising-rate cycle.
In the age of ascendant ETFs, some have written off mutual funds as irrelevant, but advisers need to know the nuances of each type of fund
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i>: It's that time of year when mutual fund columnist Chuck Jaffe doles out his Lump of Coal awards to funds that failed investors.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i>: Security guard/waiter/travel agent posing as a hedge fund manager has been convicted of stealing more than $800,000 from 17 investors.
Fund names can be deceiving and when outflows hit, distributions are unavoidable.
A commitment that can make investment performance a lesser priority.
Bill Gross' successor Daniel Ivascyn quietly has pulled off a stunning performance.
Mutual fund outflows can spell capital gains disaster and this year, some funds with low turnover are reporting sizable capital gains distributions as managers sell securities to meet investor withdrawals.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i>: Instead of needing 80% of your pre-retirement income, you can probably make it with 60%.
The SPDR S&P 500 Fossil Fuel Free ETF is a greener version of the world's first and largest ETF.
Three mutual funds just the start for Pzena Investment Management.
While Washington has long been debating how to reform big Wall Street banks, Vanguard is quietly doing just that as the company and its army of index funds remove about $20 billion a year in revenue from the financial industry.
For the first time, fund manager saw roughly equal deposits into equity and fixed-income ETFs as investor demand for bond products increased.
Standouts from Vanguard, Pimco and American Funds top the list. Did your favorite make the cut?
Appears that mixed-gender portfolio management teams tend to generate better performance
Carl Icahn criticized asset management firms such as BlackRock for selling ETFs that give an illusion of liquidity for “extremely illiquid, and extremely overpriced” securities such as high yield bonds. But BlackRock CEO Larry Fink disputed the characterization.
