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INVESTING EQUITIES MAR 08, 2015
Green bonds climb as investors try to match their environmental goals

Issuance of green bonds hit $36.6 billion last year, more than six times the $6 billion issued in 2012

By Jeff Benjamin
Big banks are stressing over the Fed's stress tests
INVESTING EQUITIES MAR 06, 2015
Big banks are stressing over the Fed's stress tests

<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i>: The bar will keep rising for banks as mixed stress test results come in for some of the world's largest banks.

By Jeff Benjamin
Senator questions widespread tax dodges used by wealthy
INVESTING ALTERNATIVES MAR 06, 2015
Senator questions widespread tax dodges used by wealthy

Calls for curb to 'egregious tax loopholes' that enable varying tax bills for investors with the same underlying assets.

By Mark Schoeff Jr.
Did Merrill Lynch's latest high-profile recruiting coup break the bank?
INVESTING EQUITIES MAR 06, 2015
Did Merrill Lynch's latest high-profile recruiting coup break the bank?

<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i> A record Merrill Lynch signing bonus might have pushed its monetary limit. Plus: Loving European stocks but hating the euro, taking a fresh look at gold, and protecting the nest egg from rising drug costs.

By Jeff Benjamin
Robert Moore joins executive board of Carson Institutional Alliance
INVESTING ALTERNATIVES MAR 04, 2015
Robert Moore joins executive board of Carson Institutional Alliance

By Srividya Kalyanaraman
INVESTING EQUITIES MAR 03, 2015
Oil-price slide is starting to get scary

<i>Breakfast with Benjamin:</i> Talk of an oil comeback is fading fast. Plus: Some good news for gold investors, bankers head for greener pastures, and a St. Patty's Day spelling bee

By Jeff Benjamin
Cash-heavy mutual funds take downside protection to the extreme
INVESTING EQUITIES MAR 03, 2015
Cash-heavy mutual funds take downside protection to the extreme

<i>Breakfast with Benjamin:</i> Some funds using cash for protection. Lots of it. Plus: Adviser charged with stealing $1.3M from widows and church friends, up from the ashes arises a new subprime giant, and Wall Street courts millennials.

By Jeff Benjamin
INVESTING EQUITIES MAR 03, 2015
Advisers slow to embrace socially responsible investments sought by clients

Despite being increasingly in-demand from clients like Bryan Wilson (pictured), advisers have been slow to embrace socially responsible investments. <b><i>(Plus: <a href=&quot;http://www.investmentnews.com/section/specialreport/20150301/IMPACTINVEST&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;>Our full Impact Investing special report</a>)</b></i>

By Liz Skinner
Bill Gross a victim of the plunge in oil prices
INVESTING ALTERNATIVES MAR 03, 2015
Bill Gross a victim of the plunge in oil prices

Manager's $1.46 billion fund at Janus hit by investments in debt issued by U.S., Russian and Brazilian energy companies.

By Bloomberg
INVESTING EQUITIES MAR 03, 2015
Coming off a big year, Janus files for exotic ETFs

Move launches competition with Goldman Sachs in alternative space

By Trevor Hunnicutt
ARCP names new CEO
INVESTING ALTERNATIVES MAR 02, 2015
ARCP names new CEO

By Bruce Kelly
RCS Capital Corp. suffers big revenue hit in fourth quarter
INVESTING ALTERNATIVES MAR 02, 2015
RCS Capital Corp. suffers big revenue hit in fourth quarter

Fallout from ARCP hurt wholesaling unit but executives remain confident in recovery.

By Mason Braswell
INVESTING EQUITIES MAR 01, 2015
Go where the NBA finals go: Cleveland and Oakland looking better as investment destination

Is there Examining the correlation between success in professional basketball and the economic performance and cultural dominance of particular cities.

By David F. Sand
INVESTING EQUITIES MAR 01, 2015
Why an offense-only strategy won't succeed

Risk management is as important to long-term financial planning as the growth of investments

By Michael Russo
Fund managers warned on exotic ETFs
INVESTING EQUITIES FEB 26, 2015
Fund managers warned on exotic ETFs

As industry turns to smart beta to capture growth, product developers may need to step up stress testing.

By Trevor Hunnicutt
INVESTING ALTERNATIVES FEB 24, 2015
Due diligence in the age of flash crashes

The dominance of algorithms in trading means advisers need to re-evaluate their processes

By Blaine F. Aikin
Schorsch, ARCP dodge bullet as defamation suit dropped
INVESTING ALTERNATIVES FEB 24, 2015
Schorsch, ARCP dodge bullet as defamation suit dropped

Lisa McAlister, the company's former chief accounting officer, pulls her defamation suit, in which she claimed she was a scapegoat for a $23 million accounting error.

By Mason Braswell
The Fed's first interest rate hike hits another speed bump
INVESTING EQUITIES FEB 24, 2015
The Fed's first interest rate hike hits another speed bump

<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i>: The Fed continues to hem and haw on raising interest rates. Plus: Options-based funds get it done, hedge funder spills the beans on 2015, and the outlook for oil prices is all over the map.

By Jeff Benjamin
ProShares gives ETF traders aggressive way to play gold miners
INVESTING ALTERNATIVES FEB 23, 2015
ProShares gives ETF traders aggressive way to play gold miners

Four new funds not for the faint of heart or buy-and-hold investors.

By Jeff Benjamin
Pimco, J.P. Morgan build out smart beta franchises as sector heats up
INVESTING ALTERNATIVES FEB 23, 2015
Pimco, J.P. Morgan build out smart beta franchises as sector heats up

Massive investment firms look to tackle a growing theme in fund management.

By Trevor Hunnicutt