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INVESTING EQUITIES NOV 10, 2016
Making sense of the stock market's post-election run

Plus: Industrial stocks ride infrastructure-spending hopes, Warren Buffett makes nice with Donald Trump, and suddenly it's the Democratic party that might not survive in tact

By Jeff Benjamin
Advisers brace for the transition toward a President Trump
INVESTING EQUITIES NOV 10, 2016
Advisers brace for the transition toward a President Trump

Republican power balance puts DOL rule into question

By Jeff Benjamin
INVESTING EQUITIES NOV 09, 2016
Donald Trump's transition team says scrapping Dodd-Frank is job one

Plus: Five ETFs to help you prosper under the Trump administration, Dawn Bennett lands in more hot water, sending the media back to journalism school, and Happy Veterans Day

By Jeff Benjamin
INVESTING EQUITIES NOV 09, 2016
Election over, advisers plan their next moves with clients

Advisers ready trades and talking points for crushed Clinton supporters

By Liz Skinner
INVESTING EQUITIES NOV 09, 2016
Donald Trump win takes the stock market to hell and back

Plus: The Fed gets another excuse for not hiking rates, a big win for big oil, and nervous Americans crashed Canada's immigration website

By Jeff Benjamin
INVESTING EQUITIES NOV 09, 2016
How the bond market braced for the election

Plus: Don't bet on a post-election stock market rally, filing bankruptcy to fix a credit score, and some realities of moving to Canada

By Jeff Benjamin
INVESTING EQUITIES NOV 03, 2016
Cautious investors hedge a Donald Trump presidency to the bitter end

Plus: Record bets on the election outcome, questions for your CTA, and don't take financial advice from your family

By Jeff Benjamin
INVESTING EQUITIES NOV 03, 2016
The markets fear a contested presidential election

Plus: Going for the gold, retiring with a $500k nest egg, and Templeton Global Bond Fund under the microscope

By Jeff Benjamin
INVESTING EQUITIES NOV 02, 2016
Stocks fall as bonds and gold prices climb on U.S. election jitters

Investors are crowding into haven assets after the latest U.S. election polls suggest a tighter race.

By Bloomberg
American Funds files for new share class to cut fund expense ratios
INVESTING EQUITIES NOV 02, 2016
American Funds files for new share class to cut fund expense ratios

F3 shares trim expense ratios by about 37 basis points.

By Jeff Benjamin
INVESTING EQUITIES NOV 01, 2016
Eaton Vance to buy Calvert Investments

Acquisition of $12.3B social investment manager marks big step into the ESG market.

By John Waggoner
INVESTING EQUITIES OCT 31, 2016
Handful of mutual funds set up for big capital gains distributions

Plus: Wells Fargo's woes continue, the scariest presidential election could get even scarier, and how to spend that extra hour this weekend

By Jeff Benjamin
Why performance-chasing investors will love the new 5-year rolling averages
INVESTING EQUITIES OCT 31, 2016
Why performance-chasing investors will love the new 5-year rolling averages

The flipside is the 3-year averages are getting worse.

By Jeff Benjamin
Investopedia Anxiety Index a step ahead of the VIX?
INVESTING EQUITIES OCT 31, 2016
Investopedia Anxiety Index a step ahead of the VIX?

The financial encyclopedia website has started measuring online searches as a way to forecast buying and selling in the markets.

By Jeff Benjamin
INVESTING EQUITIES OCT 27, 2016
Fresh FBI investigation of Hillary Clinton sets the markets on edge

Plus: Bilked Madoff investors get some pay back, the economics of Halloween, and forecasting the election outcome based on costume sales

By Jeff Benjamin
INVESTING EQUITIES OCT 27, 2016
IRA investors may disappear from IPOs

The Department of Labor's fiduciary rule prohibits individual IRA investors from participating in initial public offerings with the assistance of their financial adviser.

By Ronald J. Kruszewski
Financial advisers miss the mark by measuring alternative investments against stock market
INVESTING EQUITIES OCT 24, 2016
Financial advisers miss the mark by measuring alternative investments against stock market

It's no different than comparing stocks to bonds.

By Jeff Benjamin
INVESTING EQUITIES OCT 20, 2016
Despite the temptation, an all-stock portfolio is crazy

Plus: Investors think the Fed will hike in December, here come the boring post-DOL portfolios, and now is a good time to ask for a raise

By Jeff Benjamin
INVESTING EQUITIES OCT 13, 2016
A pricey stock market may get pricier

Plus: Buffett's way ain't easy, how we survived Black Monday October 1987, and Bob Dylan is being Bob Dylan

By Jeff Benjamin
INVESTING EQUITIES OCT 13, 2016
Financial wisdom from Deepak Chopra

Plus: Revisiting the Janus-Henderson marriage, don't chase that record-setting IPO, and Curt Schilling aims to strikeout Elizabeth Warren

By Jeff Benjamin