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SEC Announces 2017 Examination Priorities
January 12, 2017--The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced its Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations' (OCIE) 2017 priorities. Areas of focus include electronic investment advice, money market funds, and financial exploitation of senior investors. The priorities also reflect a continuing focus on protecting retail investors, including individuals investing for their retirement, and assessing market-wide risks.
"These priorities make clear we are continuing to focus on a wide range of issues impacting our markets, from traditional areas such as market-wide risks to new forms of technology including automated investment advice," said SEC Chair Mary Jo White.
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Source: SEC.gov
Davis Advisors launches three transparent actively managed equity ETFs
January 12, 2017--Davis Advisors today announced the launch of three transparent actively-managed exchange traded funds (ETFs), Davis Select U.S. Equity ETF (DUSA), Davis Select Financial ETF (DFNL), and Davis Select Worldwide ETF (DWLD).
They are the first ETFs offered by Davis and among the first true actively-managed equity ETFs in the industry, using a fundamental bottom up approach. Davis has decades of experience investing in these areas. Each ETF utilizes the Davis Investment Discipline and is a high-conviction, best ideas, benchmark-agnostic portfolio. The ETFs have low expected portfolio turnover and a strategic long-term time investment horizon. Davis ETFs offer investors the traditional benefits of ETFs in general, which include low costs, tax efficiency, intraday liquidity, and transparency.1
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Source: Davis Advisors
Redwood to Launch Series of Active Exchange Traded Funds on NEO
January 12, 2017--Redwood Asset Management ("Redwood"), a wholly owned subsidiary of Purpose Investments Inc. ("Purpose"), and Aequitas NEO Exchange Inc. ("NEO Exchange" or "NEO") are pleased to announce that Redwood plans to launch four exchange traded funds, consisting of six ETF listings, on NEO.
This is the first series of Redwood ETFs to be launched on the public markets, and will provide investors with a suite of ETF solutions managed by best-in-class specialist investment boutiques.
view filing PowerShares Launches Ultra-Short-Term Bond ETF, Cash Alternative view more CFTC.gov Swaps Report Update Fear, Loathing, and Profit in U.S. Bond Markets view more Vanguard Broadens Behavioral Science Capabilities With Introduction Of Center For Investor Research view more NYSE to Expand Floor Trading to All U.S. Equity Securities in 2017 view more
Beaumont Capital Management Launches ETF-based, Smart Beta Fixed Income Strategy view more
Closing out 2016, Nasdaq now has a total of 328 products listed, marking an increase of 50 percent compared to 2015. In the fourth quarter, nine ETPs listed and 27 products switched to Nasdaq from other U.S. exchanges.
Source: Nasdaq.com
January 12, 2017--Invesco PowerShares has debuted an ultra-short-term Treasury bond exchange traded fund that catered toward investors in need of posting collateral or a safe haven to park their cash.
On Thursday, PowerShares rolled out the PowerShares Treasury Collateral Portfolio (NYSEArca: CLTL).
Source: foxbusiness.com
January 11, 2017--CFTC's Weekly Swaps Report has been updated, and is now available.
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Source: CFTC.gov
January 11, 2017--Some hedge funds are profiting from post-Volcker illiquidity in bonds, but a new Fed study predicts trouble ahead in times of market stress
In December the Federal Reserve Board published a paper proving what everyone in the bond market already knows: The
Volcker Rule-a provision in the 2010 Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act aimed at restricting proprietary trading and risk-taking by banks-has had a
severe impact on liquidity in the bond market.
Source: institutionalinvestor.com
January 11. 2017--Vanguard today announced the newly established Center for Investor Research (CIR), an enhancement of the company's efforts to drive investor success through behavioral research and experimentation.
The new Center will be initially dedicated to the study of the behavior of individual investors. CIR will examine how investors make decisions through observational studies based on Vanguard's administrative data and the growing pool of digital interactions. T
Source: finance.yahoo.com
Highest quality market model to deliver greater choice
January 11, 2017--The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), part of Intercontinental Exchange (NYSE:ICE), today announced plans to expand its floor-based trading operations,
offering investors even greater access to trade all U.S. securities for the first time with NYSE's unique and proven market model.
Source: NYSE Group
January 11, 2017--Beaumont Capital Management (BCM), a leading provider of tactical, ETF-based investment solutions, has announced the launch of a new smart beta fixed income solution, the BCM Dynamic Global Fixed Income strategy.
The new strategy is part of a diverse fixed income suite, which includes three distinct defensive fixed income offerings to meet the challenges faced by today's investors in a rising interest-rate environment.
Source: Beaumont Capital Management (BCM)
