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Cboe Vest's New "Dividend Aristocrats" ETF (Ticker: KNG) Combines Quality Dividend Growers with Partial Call Overwriting Strategy, Targeting Income with Growth
March 27, 2018--Cboe Vest is building the second generation of option-based index strategies. Such strategies incorporate novel uses of options seeking to achieve targeted portfolio return features such as risk mitigation, growth or income. Similar to the evolution from market-capitalization-weighted traditional beta strategies to factor tilt second-generation strategies (colloquially known as "smart beta"), Options 2.0 strategies are an evolution from the first-generation of simple but fully covered-call and put writing options strategies.
Cboe Vest S&P 500(R) Dividend Aristocrats Target Income ETF (Ticker: KNG) is the first index-based ETF to combine the dividend growth factor, a recognized smart beta strategy, with a second-generation dynamic and partial covered-call options strategy.
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Source: Cboe Vest Financial LLC
Nationwide Adds to its Strategic Beta ETF Offerings
March 27, 2018--Combining the success of emerging markets equity with proven diversification methodology
Nationwide has added another Strategic Beta ETF option that seeks to provide investors with improved risk-adjusted returns by enhancing diversification.
The new Nationwide Maximum Diversification Emerging Markets Core Equity ETF (MXDE) is the latest Strategic Beta ETF since Nationwide launched three others in 2017.
"The Nationwide Maximum Diversification Emerging Markets Core Equity ETF seeks to identify the exact combination of stocks within the emerging markets universe that will maximize the diversification benefits of a portfolio while retaining the full equity risk premium," Chris Graham, chief investment officer for Nationwide Funds, said.
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Source: Nationwide
Vident Financial Launches U.S. Diversified Real Estate ETF (PPTY)
March 27, 2018--Multi-factor real estate ETF for investors who know that location, property type, and leverage matter
Vident Financial, LLC today announced the launch of PPTY-U.S. Diversified Real Estate ETF (NYSE Arca:PPTY), a multi-factor alternative to traditional market cap-weighted real estate funds.
"If you ask for the three most important factors when investing in real estate, you'll probably hear 'location, location, location.' To this we'd add property type and leverage," said Fred Stoops, head of real estate investments at Vident.
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Source: Vident Financial, LLC
Cboe Prods SEC on Bitcoin ETF Approval in New Letter
March 26, 2018--A senior executive for Cboe Global Markets believes that the market could support the launch of a bitcoin exchange-traded product (ETP), according to a new letter sent to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
Chris Concannon, the firm's president, didn't directly push the agency to approve such a product. Rather, he cited data collected by the company through its launch of bitcoin futures late last year to make the argument that the market is moving toward being able to support an ETF.
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Source: coindesk.com
This New Blockchain Platform Aims to Give Gold a Digital Edge
March 26, 2018--TradeWind Markets system also backed by IEX, Goldcorp
'Most important thing' to hit gold market in decades: Sprott
Cryptocurrencies and the blockchain were thought by some to replace gold as the ultimate haven against financial calamity. Now the gold market is using blockchain to kick back at crypto and bring precious metals into the digital age.
TradeWind Markets Inc., a technology provider backed by Sprott Inc., Goldcorp Inc. and IEX Group Inc. on Monday launched a new digital gold trading and settlement platform that aims to simplify and speed up trading and reduce transaction costs.
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Source: Bloomberg
Exotic ETF Trading Is Surging Once Again
March 26, 2018--Exchange-traded products see volume surge amid choppy trading
High turnover concentrated among inverse leveraged tech funds
The prime suspects in last month's global rout may be at it again.
Inverse exchange-traded funds--which use leverage to bet against stocks and volatility indexes-- have seen trading activity skyrocket to ominous levels as markets have whipsawed in the past few days. In fact, turnover has only been higher two other times since the financial crisis: in 2016 during a correction and in February when a surging Cboe Volatility Index forced short funds to unwind.
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Source: Bloomberg
SEC Has Some Catching Up to Do on ETFs, IM Chief Says
March 26, 2018--The Big questions, according to SEC's Dalia Blass: Should ETF index providers register as investment advisors? And what does 'ETF' really mean these days?
While delivering an exchange-traded fund rule is a "high priority" for the Securities and Exchange Commission's Division of Investment Management and is overdue, said Dalia Blass, IM's director, perhaps it's also time for ETF index providers to register as investment advisors.
During her March 19 remarks at the Investment Company Institute's mutual funds and investment management conference in San Antonio, Blass noted that, as it stands now, the ETF industry is a more than $3.5 trillion market operating under more than 300 individually issued exemptive orders.
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Source: thinkadvisor.com
BNY hires former Fidelity exec to head investment strategy
March 26, 2018--BNY Mellon merged its three largest boutique asset managers Mellon Capital Management, Standish Mellon Asset Management and The Boston Company Asset Management in November last year to create the $560 billion firm.
BNY Mellon Asset Management North America (BNY Mellon AMNA) has hired former Fidelity, Janus and Goldman alumna Stephanie Pierce as head of investment strategy and innovation.
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Source: citywireusa.com
Thompson Hine Update: SEC Proposes Changes to Liquidity Risk Disclosures
March 26, 2018--Key Notes:
SEC proposes amending Form N-PORT to eliminate the requirement that funds publicly disclose aggregated liquidity classification (i.e., bucketing) information about their portfolios.
It recommends that funds disclose liquidity risk management program operations in annual reports rather than in quarterly Form N-PORT submissions.
It also proposes allowing funds to classify a holding across multiple liquidity buckets rather than forcing a holding into one liquidity category.
It suggests funds disclose cash and cash equivalents on Form N-PORT to facilitate monitoring compliance with highly liquid investment minimum requirements.
In October 2016, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted the liquidity rule to promote effective liquidity risk management programs and provide investors with more information regarding the redeemability of fund shares.
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Source: Thompson Hine
IMF Working paper-Aging, Secular Stagnation and the Business Cycle
March 23, 2018--Summary:
As of 2015, U.S. log output per capita was 12 percent below what its pre-2008 linear trend would predict.
To understand why, I develop and estimate a model of the US with demographics, real and monetary shocks, and the occasionally binding ZLB on nominal rates. Demographic changes generate slow-moving trends in the real interest rate, employment, and productivity. I find that demographics alone can explain one-third of the gap between log output per capita and its linear trend in 2015. Demographics also lowered real rates, causing the ZLB to bind between 2009 and 2015, contributing to the slow recovery after the Great Recession.
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Source: IMF
