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 >

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 >

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 >

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 >

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 >

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 >

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 >

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 >

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 >

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 >

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 >

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 >

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 >

12/18/2014 @ 3:16PM Steve Blumenthal , Contributor I wrote often throughout 2014 about the danger signals flashing from an excessive run up in debt and derivatives. We have a repeat of the scenario we suffered in 2008, only much worse (Watch Junks Bonds For Early Warnings Of New Financial [...]Read More >

December 17, 2014 By Aparna Narayanan Investor's Business Daily Russian markets took a fatal fall Tuesday after a massive hike in interest rate sparked instability in the ruble.  Despite President Vladimir Putin assuring the economy will be cured, the country's stock has been slammed in recent [...]Read More >