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The Fed takes a long-term view of its record $4.3 trillion balance sheet
On today's Breakfast with Benjamin 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.
Outcomes making fund management a hard-knock life
In this Take Five interview, Columbia Management's global CIO says outcomes are more than a buzzword and investors expect more than performance.
Amid shifting rate policy, rising geopolitical risk, convertible securities could make sense
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?
When searching for investment advice, consumers are drawn to the alphabet soup of credentials
Breakfast with Benjamin: Consumers drawn by alphabet soup of adviser credentials. Plus: Job cuts continue at Barclays, pushing for nationwide fracking, a big retirement risk, commodity hedge funds take a beating, and another smidgen of bad news for the IRS.
The capital gains vacation is coming to an end
For fund investors, the vacation from capital gains taxes may be over after another strong year for stocks. But it's not all bad news, as there are ways for investors to extend their holiday.
The housing recovery is falling flat
On today's Breakfast with Benjamin menu, the housing recovery might have fizzled out. Plus more on junk bond yields, a big Barclays fine and much more.
European stocks hit six-year high on fifth day of rally
Breakfast with Benjamin: Euro stocks rally but for how long?. Plus: The China risk, big money managers are flush once again, the future of airplane seating, and 21 inspirational yearbook quotes.
Ukraine’s new resistance to Russia draws attention back to the macroeconomic fallout
Friday's menu: Ukraine heats up and fund winners and losers come into focus. Plus: Fed-speak clarity: an oxymoron? Bank loan funds fall victim to Fed policy, Obamacare drags us back to the 1950s and banks square off with Big Labor in Vegas.
Mutual fund flows: Expect 2013’s reversal of trends to continue
How much can the year's surprising mutual fund flows tell us? Leuthold Weeden Capital Management's Kristen Hendrickson takes a deep dive and provides insight into how the rest of the year could play out.
Finra goes after algorithmic trading trickery
Today's Breakfast with Benjamin menu: Finra targets trading trickery. Plus: Credit Suisse pleads guilty to tax evasion, dealing with the Fed's giant balance sheet, Treasuries vs. gold and 10 great baseball movies to see this summer.
As economy improves, ETF investors take note
Investors are plowing money — $5 billion in April alone — into equity ETFs, betting that an expanding economy will overwhelm concerns such as slowing earnings growth, rising valuations and the end of Fed stimulus.
2014’s oddly logical bond market rally
Breakfast with Benjamin: The bond market's oddly logical rally. Plus: Retail and professional investors get cautious, gold tops $1,300 an ounce, the income opportunities in deep-water drilling, and clarifying Thomas Piketty's attack on capitalism
Corporate bonds might not be a good place right now
Breakfast with Benjamin: Some big names, including Nouriel Roubini, are warning about a bubble in corporate bonds. Plus: Jeffrey Gundlach knows where the bond market bear is, insider trading on fantasy, should you drop health care coverage, cities not enjoying a housing recovery and about that West Antarctic glacier.
As Ukraine gets hotter, fund winners and losers come into focus
Firm runs crash-test analysis to identify biggest losers — and winners — if the tension escalates. You might be surprised at the results.
Don’t worry about rising rates. Or do
Breakfast with Benjamin: Why interest rates won't rise soon, from N.Y. Fed chief William Dudley. Plus: Why interest rates will rise soon, from another Fed governor, more reasons to expect a stock market correction, the end of the Tea 'party,' and what sets Warren Buffett's favorite bank apart.
Are women financially conservative or just economically realistic?
They're less willing to take risks with money than men, but they'll ensure the mortgage is paid off.
Treasury bonds are already reacting to China’s proposed market reforms
Today's Breakfast with Benjamin menu: China moves hit T-bonds. Plus: Navigating a bond portfolio through rising rates, El-Erian says the market outlook is rocky, the price of meat is high and going higher, and math doesn't have to be so darn complicated.
Week in review: Stocks fall amid tech selloff
Optimism about continued support from the Federal Reserve was not enough to prevent the worst recent decline for the Nasdaq Composite Index. Plus, find out which companies took a beating on first quarter earnings.
E*Trade alumni launch their next big thing
Stock-trading site Kapitall woos investment-shy millennials with its online 'playground.'
Motif users can play portfolio manager<br>and earn royalties
Startup brokerage planning new online platform for advisers.
