<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i>: Supply and demand math could mean $10 oil. Plus: Eric Holder takes a parting shot at Wall Street, SEC filings show how hedge funds did and didn't navigate the markets, and it's hard to bet against sin stocks.
Money manager Seth Klarman identified opportunities last year in energy after oil prices plunged. But with bargains drying up, the $28.5 billion Baupost Group's cash balances grew and the bargain hunter challenged the Fed's easy money policy.
Sallie Krawcheck says online advice industry is filling a gap in the marketplace.
Advisers ask what happens to benefits when clients retire before 62.
Any rate increase will be slow to avoid startling market, and caution will prevail for a long time, the fund manager predicts.
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Texas-based Ellis & Ellis formerly was affiliated with Ameriprise Financial.
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A typically conservative group, some advisers are holding back even as demand picks up.
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For investors worried about how stocks will react to rising interest rates, last week's trading may provide some guidance. Following the biggest one-week jump in 10-year Treasury yields in more than a year, investors are selling the highest-yielding companies in the S&P 500.
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