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Lipper U.S. Weekly FundFlows Insight Report: Investors Park Assets in Money Market Funds in Response to Market Volatility
November 16, 2018--Lipper's fund asset groups (including both mutual funds and ETFs) took in $13.7 billion of net new money for the fund-flows week ended Wednesday, November 14. The net inflows were driven by money market funds (+$12.4 billion) and equity funds (+$2.7 billion), while taxable fixed income funds (-$1.2 billion) and municipal bond funds (-$131 million) both saw net money leave.
Market Overview
The Dow Jones Industrial Average (-4.20%) and the S&P 500 Index (-3.99%) both suffered substantial losses during the fund-flows trading week.
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UBS Launches the ETRACS Monthly Pay 2xLeveraged US Small Cap High Dividend ETN Series B view more U.S. Weekly FundFlows Insight Report: Equity Funds and ETFs See Net Outflows Despite Strong Market Returns During the Week
Market Wrap-Up
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The November survey, canvassing investors managing $641 billion, was conducted from Nov 2-8 as funds, relieved over the outcome of U.S. midterm elections, rushed to buy more equities.
Source: Reuters
November 12, 2018--Investment products that use derivatives to improve returns are threatening the reputation of the $3.6 trillion market for exchange-traded funds, according to one of five commissioners at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
"The risk with levered ETFs is that the entire asset class will be painted with this brush," said Robert Jackson Jr., adding that he fears Americans will buy and hold these products in their retirement accounts, and then get a nasty surprise when they lose their money.
Source: Bloombergquint.com
November 9, 2018--UBS Investment Bank today announced that the ETRACS Monthly Pay 2x Leveraged Small Cap High Dividend ETN Series B (NYSE Arca(R): SMHB), will begin trading on NYSE Arca(R).
SMHB is linked to the monthly compounded 2x leveraged performance of the Solactive US Small Cap High Dividend Index.
Source: UBS
November 8, 2018--November 8, 2018--For the second week in three investors were overall net purchasers of fund assets (including those of conventional funds and ETFs), injecting $19.3 billion for Lipper's fund-flows week ended November 7, 2018.
Fund investors were net purchasers of taxable fixed income funds (+$4.1 billion) and money market funds (+$23.9 billion) while being net redeemers of equity funds (-$8.5 billion) and municipal bond funds (-$256 million).
Investors appeared to cheer the expected government gridlock resulting from the midterm elections. As expected, the Democrats took control of the House of Representatives, while the Republicans shored up their control of the Senate.
Source: Thomson Reuters
November 8, 2018--The US justice department filed a lawsuit against UBS on Thursday, accusing the Swiss bank of causing investors to lose "many billions of dollars" on residential mortgage-backed securities that it issued in the run-up to the financial crisis.
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Source: FT.com
