| If you've been following our investing coverage, you've hopefully enjoyed our exhaustive coverage of the commentary espoused by Wall Street's greatest investment managers and strategists. We recently broadened that universe to include wealth advisors for the ultrarich — and we've already landed some big names. Marley Jay spoke to Jeff Erdmann of Merrill Lynch's private banking and investing group, who's been ranked by Forbes as the nation's best wealth manager for three years in a row. He also chatted with Peter Mallouk, who — with $39 billion under management — is America's largest advisor to the ultrawealthy. As it turned out, both of them agreed on one retirement-investing mistake most people make. Beyond that, we spoke to Rebecca Rothstein of RVR Group — the highest-ranked female wealth manager on the Forbes list — about a crucial shift she recently made to her investing approach. We also asked Brian Pfiefler of Morgan Stanley — the No. 2 wealth advisor in the US last year — why he rarely makes stock trades. Going beyond this new initiative, the Investing team at Business Insider has also analyzing ongoing market trends and talking to other figures of authority: The research chief at the world's largest hedge fund unpacks a market that's suddenly opening up to US investors — and why the gold rush is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity Karen Karniol-Tambour, the head of investment research at Bridgewater Associates, discusses the opening of the Chinese market, which has created an opportunity that "essentially didn't exist" for US investors previously. "If you believe in diversification, you're not going to get a lot of opportunities where such a large market opens up," Karniol-Tambour told Business Insider's Akin Oyedele in a recent interview. READ MORE HERE >> People frustrated with their taxes are piling a record amount of money into an exempt investment that looks unstoppable. Here's how you can get involved.
The 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act put a limit on the amount of state and local tax payments that Americans can deduct, which got investors hunting for ways to lower their taxes. The Wells Fargo Investment Institute finds that they've turned to municipal bonds. The firm says a record $23 billion had flowed into muni bond funds this year, more than investors put into the space in all of 2018, and that he expected demand to keep growing. READ MORE HERE >> Even the world's top firms pay Rob Arnott for advice. He explains why a $1 trillion investing industry is built on a flawed premise — and why that's hurting retirement savings.
Rob Arnott, the founder and chairman of the Pimco subadviser Research Affiliates LLC, is a man whose expertise is so respected that multiple large firms license his investment ideas. In an exclusive interview with Business Insider, Arnott explained why he thinks target-date funds — a wildly popular way to invest for retirement — are a far worse option than many think. READ MORE HERE >> Other good stories from the investing realm: There's glaring evidence that the next recession will be entirely different from any in recent history. Here's why experts worry we're ill-prepared to combat it. A money manager at $2.5 trillion State Street lays out an investing opportunity that just opened up — one that's outlived major political scares throughout history JPMorgan quant mastermind Marko Kolanovic can move markets with a single report. He gave us a peek inside how he analyzes data and makes his big calls. The stars are aligning for more explosive stock gains — and one expert has identified the perfect trade to take advantage GOLDMAN SACHS: A trade crucial for stock-market survival is the cheapest it's been since before the financial crisis. Here's how you can get involved. Jim Tierney's sole mandate is to make money while stocks are going haywire. Here's his best advice for profiting during market crashes. Here's how the corporate merger explosion could accelerate a market crash and make the next recession even worse The world's largest hedge fund just warned that the 'most pro-corporate environment in history' is in danger — and said the fallout could send stocks plunging | 