<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i> West Oak Capital added another $1.3M of Charles Schwab stock, upping its total stake to more than 46,000 shares.
Broker-sold fund companies lag since new regulation released.
Plus: Amplify ETF zeroes in on online retail, calling out Gundlach's forecasts, and get ready to start tipping your Uber driver
Jeffrey Kolitch, manager of the Baron Real Estate fund, says investors should look at cruise-line companies, cell-tower operators, casinos and companies involved in real estate infrastructure.
It is the second large group of wholesalers to migrate to another firm en masse from the defunct Realty Capital Securities, a unit of RCS Capital Corp.
It's no secret that strategic-beta exchange-traded products have become a pervasive part of the marketplace, rewarding investors with innovative tools to diversify and fine-tune portfolios in ways traditional market-capitalization-weighted indexes don't allow.
Advisers need to communicate that while upcoming account statements may look a bit different than before, the alternative investments in clients' portfolios remain fundamentally unaffected.
High valuations, low interest rates spell lower annual returns of 5% or less; timber seen as best bet
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i> Why one analyst predicts the precious metal will hit $3,000 an ounce over the next three years.
The agency's final reg will allow the asset class to be sold after all.
In complaint, regulator says that almost 95% of VFG Securities' revenues were generated from nontraded REITs and other direct participation programs. B-D owner claims he is the victim of “character assassination."
The firm could create its own REIT sponsor and wholesaler or take a run at an established one like NorthStar Asset Management Group Inc.
Source says firm eyes creating, managing nontraded REITs for brokers and advisers to sell.
RCS was recently closed after paying Massachusetts $3 million to settle charges that it fraudulently rounded up proxy votes for real estate deals.
Plus: UBS swims against the current toward hedge funds, the dismal history of earnings forecasts, and how not to say goodbye in an email
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i> The dust around SAC Capital has settled enough so that Steven Cohen has a new entry point into the asset management business.
Sales at the once-tarnished company are up fourfold this year while sales in the overall industry are down.
Plus: Going after tax inversions goes after the middle class, the sun is setting on solar energy funds, and the baseball bat gets an upgrade
Final version includes a number of changes that address the most serious concerns of those who most vehemently criticized it.
Fund wants to diversify product line and strike while the iron is hot with proposed acquisition of the Alpha Defensive Alternatives Fund
