By Cinthia Murphy November 4, 2015 There’s much soul searching in the financial advice industry these days. What will its future look like? Thanks to a leap in financial technology, largely at the hands of robo advisors, traditional advisors today are faced with a changing relationship with [...]Read More >
Forbes: Using ETFs And Options To Hedge Equity Exposure In An Overvalued Market - 11-9-2015
10/25/2015 @ 11:17 AM Steve Blumenthal, Contributor CMG Capital Management Group CEO writes about hedging equity exposure in overvalued markets in his latest Forbes article titled Using ETFs And Options To Hedge Equity Exposure In An Overvalued Market. Some excerpts from the piece: "Many [...]Read More >
Forbes: Welcome To The Opening Round Of The New Bear Market - 09-8-2015
9/3/2015 @ 12:13PM Steve Blumenthal, Contributor CMG Capital Management Group CEO writes about strategies for this new volatile market in his latest Forbes article titled Welcome To The Opening Round Of The New Bear Market. Some excerpts from the piece: “My view: it’s time to “sell the [...]Read More >
Pain in High Yield Worsens - 08-19-2015
August 19, 2015, 10:26 A.M. ET By Amey Stone CMG Capital Management Group CEO Steve Blumenthal talks to Barron’s “Income Investing” columnist Amey Stone about high yield bonds. Excerpt below from the Barron’s story Pain in High Yield Worsens: "Steve Blumenthal, CEO of CMG Capital Management [...]Read More >
How You Can Take Advantage Of Outperforming Japan ETFs - 08-4-2015
By Aparna Narayanan, Investor's Business Daily 08/03/2015 @ 6:52 PM ET CMG Capital Management Group CEO Steve Blumenthal is quoted in today’s Investors.com story on Japan ETFs. An excerpt from the story: Monetary easing and market-friendly reforms kindled Japan ETFs this year. But one wealth [...]Read More >
Investing With A High Probability Of Global Recession - 07-27-2015
7/27/2015 @ 9:23AM Steve Blumenthal, Contributor Steve Blumenthal’s latest Forbes article analyzes signals that point to a high probability of a global recession. An excerpt from the article: Recent events and key economic models point to a high probability of a global recession. Ground zero of [...]Read More >
Are Stocks Really Cheap Relative To Bonds? - 06-25-2015
6/25/2015 @ 1:35PM Steve Blumenthal, Contributor Are Stocks Really Cheap Relative To Bonds? Steve Blumenthal asks in his latest Forbes article. An excerpt from the article: "What looks cheap today becomes not so cheap when rates rise and, as you’ll see, the market is certainly “not cheap.” The [...]Read More >
The ‘Bigger Short’ Or How To Play This Crazy Bond Market - 06-12-2015
6/12/2015 @ 10:53AM Steve Blumenthal, Contributor “This is just not normal,” CMG Capital Management Group CEO Steve Blumenthal writes in his latest Forbes article The ‘Bigger Short’ Or How To Play This Crazy Bond Market. “Nearly 90% of the industrialized world economy is presently anchored by zero [...]Read More >
WSJ Voices: Michael Sciortino, on the Value of Engaged Listening - 06-5-2015
June 5, 2015 11:36 a.m. ET Mike Sciortino, Head of Distribution at CMG Capital Management Group, is featured in the Wealth Adviser section of The Wall Street Journal. Mike talks about how advisors can be more successful by being active, engaged listeners. Here is an excerpt: “The degree to which [...]Read More >
Blumenthal on ETF.com: A System For Facing Perils Of High Yield - 05-29-2015
May 28, 2015 Steve Blumenthal CMG Capital Management Group CEO Steve Blumenthal writes in ETF.com: "The high-yield bond market has been one of the great recovery stories since the scariest days of the financial crisis. It could become scary again when the Federal Reserve begins raising rates and [...]Read More >
Blumenthal on theStreet – Tracking High Yield - 05-26-2015
5/26/15 12:45 PM EDT CMG Capital Management Group CEO Steve Blumenthal stopped by theStreet in New York today to chat with Gregg Greenberg about the coming opportunity in high yield bonds. Catch the (3.25 min) segment here: How to Profit From the Coming Washout in High Yield Bond ETFs. Summary of [...]Read More >
Junk Bonds Are The Investment Opportunity Of A Lifetime, Just Not Yet - 04-6-2015
4/3/2015 @ 7:40PM Steve Blumenthal, Contributor An outstanding investment opportunity in high-yield bonds is growing closer. Let’s take a look at what you can do to identify the opportunity and act on it. High-yield junk bonds can be an attractive asset class but, as the name implies, investing in [...]Read More >
Rate Hike Ahead, Bond Model Says Sell – Forbes - 03-13-2015
3/13/2015 @ 4:17PM Steve Blumenthal, Contributor We’ve gotten used to thinking of a zero interest rate as normal-—it’s far from normal.” -Fed Vice Chairman Stanley Fischer Employment figures continue to surpass analyst estimates and the trend over the last six months has been strong. Last [...]Read More >
Creative Destruction And Managing The Risk of Global Debt – Forbes - 02-26-2015
2/24/2015 @ 6:27PM Steve Blumenthal, Contributor What beat me was not having brains enough to stick to my own game – that is to play the market only when I was satisfied that precedents favored my play.” - Jesse Livermore, Reminiscences of a Stock Operator There has been a lot of debate on [...]Read More >
Blumenthal On Bloomberg ETF Report - 02-4-2015
Feb 4, 2015 Bloomberg Radio’s Catherine Cowdery interviewed CMG Capital Management Group, Inc. CEO Steve Blumenthal last week at the Inside ETFs Conference in Hollywood, Florida. In the interview, Steve discusses his firm's current fixed income allocation and industry groups that appear at the [...]Read More >