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Big banks feel the heat from religious investor groups
Friday's breakfast is served: Big banks feel the heat from religious investor groups; Deutsche Bank settles with Finra; the housing recovery's recovery and Jamie Dimon's wacky holiday card
The Dow is getting dicey at levels reminiscent of 2000, 2007 peaks
Breakfast with Benjamin: The Dow is getting dicey at these heights. Plus: Lawyers get rich on Madoff's mess, Volcker rule cuts prop trading, retirement back-up plans, and rich folks are spending less this holiday season.
All eyes focused on the last jobs report of ’13
Breakfast with Benjamin: Watching the last jobs report of the year, plus Vanguard as the Wal-Mart of ETFs, retailers show early weakness, shrinking health care jobs, Deutsche Bank abandons commodities trading, and unions pay fast food protesters.
Central bankers are trapped in QE nirvana
Central bankers are trapped in QE nirvana, the pre-holiday data dump, giving thanks to clients, green dividend stocks, and how to properly carve a turkey.
Markets brace for housing, consumer confidence data
Today's Breakfast with Benjamin: Markets brace for big economic data, insider selling at 30-year high, SEC tries to get tough, measuring Fed-speak, and how to behave at the company holiday party. Curated by InvestmentNews' senior columnist Jeff Benjamin
Mutual funds not in ‘too big to fail’ category
To prevent a repeat of the financial crisis, the federal government is continuing the process of identifying financial…
Redefining an ‘accredited investor’
The Securities and Exchange Commission should proceed with caution as it considers whether to expand the “accredited investor”…
Do your clients really need long-term care insurance?
What's InvestmentNews senior columnist Jeff Benjamin reading this morning? Whether your clients need long-term care insurance, hedge funds loading up on GM stock, Greenspan calls Bitcoin a bubble, JPMorgan confirms cardholders were hacked and Britain gets bullish. Breakfast with Benjamin is served.
United Capital’s Duran: Lessons from a mugging
After being mugged in Buenos Aires, United Capital's Joe Duran reflects on how chaotic — and precious — life can be.
Say #Hello to the new Twitter billionaires
Plus: Deutsche Bank's new China ETF hottest launch since 2007
Pricing wars: How to compete in an evolving industry
At the beginning of the fee revolution in the 1990s, 2% fees on top of the underlying mutual…
Time to dust off your continuity plan
The time to check your business continuity plan isn't when it needs to be implemented, but when things are calm. Like now.
Adviser gets sacked after ripping off her NFL linebacker client
What Jeff's reading today: Jail time for adviser who ripped off her NFL linebacker client, plus: the taper question, 98% chance of a market crash next year, the yen-dollar trade, New Yorkers dodge taxes, and (surprise!) Congress wastes your money.
Ignoring Gen Y prospects a generation gaffe
Younger generation needs financial planning guidance and present opportunity for long-term relationship
What’s so bad about hedge fund advertising, anyway?
Fear-monger logic falls short
Companies finding it harder to manufacture profits
Over the next four quarters, the consensus of Wall Street analysts' estimated earnings growth rate is for a re-acceleration of earnings growth from about 7% to 17%. This seems unlikely, and exceeding these lofty estimates may prove nearly impossible.
Housing recovery? That’s old news
But tardy investors could still find some upside; bottom finally pinpointed
The new new normal
Who's afraid of slower growth and puny inflation rates? Apparently, not investors
Why Apple will grow again
Lower sales of key products, the death of Steve Jobs and stiffer competition from its rivals has had many investors questioning whether the tech giant's days as an industry innovator are over
