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Global X Funds Announces Reverse Share Split For Global X MSCI Nigeria ETF
March 3, 2017--Global X Funds, the New York-based provider of exchange-traded funds (ETFs), today announced that its Board of Trustees has approved a reverse share split for the Global X MSCI Nigeria ETF (NYSE: NGE).
NGE is the only ETF focused exclusively on the Nigerian market.
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Source: Global X
Federal Reserve releases examples of new charts that illustrate uncertainty around monetary policymakers’ macroeconomic and interest rate projections
March 3, 2017--The Federal Reserve on Friday released examples of new charts (sometimes called "fan charts") and related materials that illustrate and describe the uncertainty that attends Federal Open Market Committee participants' macroeconomic and interest rate projections.
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Source: federalreserve.gov
Renaissance Capital US IPO Week Ahead: Private equity pivots to consumer and tech with 3 deals on the calendar
March 3, 2017--The three notable deals on the IPO calendar are all PE-backed: women's apparel retailer J.Jill (JILL), information technology reseller Presidio (PSDO) and high-end parka maker Canada Goose (GOOS).
Eight PE-backed deals have raised a total of $4.1 billion this year, most from Energy and Industrials sectors. This year is outpacing 2016 when 30 deals raised $8.8 billion, with no PE-backed deals in the 1Q16.
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Source: Renaissance Capital
The Forum at ETF Research Center-Sector SPDR Analyzer (March 2017): Few Bargains
March 3, 2017--The ETF Analyzer, Sector SPDR Edition for March 2017 is ready for download. This monthly publication has succinct one-page reports on each of the 10 Select Sector SPDR ETFs in three easy-to-read sections: Investment Summary, Fundamentals. and Composition. It helps investors:
Evaluate the funds based on investment merit using fundamental data and analysis
Compare the Sector SPDRs with ease on a variety of forward-looking valuation metrics
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Source: AltaVista Research
CFTC.gov Commitments of Traders Reports Update
March 3, 2017--The current reports for the week of February 28, 2017 are now available.
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Source: CFTC.gov
Small Investors Run to ETFs
March 3, 2017--A total of $124 billion has poured into ETFs in the first two months of 2017, the most aggressive start to a year ever
Ordinary investors are buying low-cost exchange-traded funds at a record-breaking pace, adding fuel to the U.S. stock rally.
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Source: Wall Street Journal
Wealthsimple for Advisors partners with Forstrong
March 3, 2017--Wealthsimple for Advisors announced March 6 that it has formed a partnership with Forstrong Global Asset Management to enable financial advisors using its platform to invest their clients' assets in any of Forstrong's seven actively managed investment strategies.
Forstrong has managed globally balanced ETF portfolios since 2001. Through Wealthsimple for Advisors, advisors can invest client assets in Forstrong portfolios with no minimum account size and no trading fees.
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Source: insurance-journal.ca
Direxion Announces Reverse and Forward Share Splits of Fifteen ETFs
March 2, 2017--Direxion has announced it will execute reverse share splits for eight of its exchange-traded funds ("ETFs"), as well as forward share splits for another seven ETFs.
The total market value of the shares outstanding will not be affected as a result of these splits, except with respect to the redemption of fractional shares, as outlined below.
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Source: direxioninvestments.com
Merk Insights-Fake Risk, Fake Return?
March 2, 2017--With seemingly everyone from the blogosphere to the Tweeter-in-chief chiming in on fake news, have investors considered their risk/return profile may also be "fake"? When it comes to investing, who or what can we trust, is the market rigged, and why does it matter?
For eight years in a row now, an investment in the S&P 500 has yielded positive returns.1 In recent years, expressions like "investors buy the dips" and "low volatility" have become associated with this rally.
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Source: Merk Investments
Biblically Responsible ETFs Offer a New Twist on Value Investing
March 1, 2017--Fund excludes companies that donate to Planned Parenthood or support same-sex marriage
Northern Lights Distributors launching a trinity of funds
Securities selected based on 'alignment with biblical values'
"There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens. A time to create ETFs, and a time to redeem them.” -Not Ecclesiastes 3:1
Northern Lights Distributors LLC, an institutional brokerage firm based in Warren Buffett's hometown of Omaha, Nebraska, is offering a novel way to pursue...well, values investing.
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Source: Bloomberg
