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Nasdaq and KBW Announce Strategic Index Partnership
April 8, 2015--- Partnership expands access to indexes and ETFs with more than $770 million in licensed Assets Under Management (AUM)
Indexes to be re-branded "KBW Nasdaq" in June 2015
Nasdaq (Nasdaq:NDAQ) and Keefe Bruyette & Woods (KBW), a Stifel company (NYSE:SF), today announced a partnership involving KBW's industry-leading family of financial indexes.
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Source: Nasdaq
CBO-Monthly Budget Review for March 2015
April 8, 2015--The federal government ran a budget deficit of $430 billion for the first half of fiscal year 2015, CBO estimates-$17 billion more than the shortfall recorded in the same span last year.
The federal government ran a budget deficit of $430 billion for the first half of fiscal year 2015, CBO estimates-$17 billion more than the shortfall recorded in the same span last year. Both revenues and outlays were about 7 percent higher than the amounts recorded in the first six months of fiscal year 2014.
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Source: Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
CFTC.gov Swaps Report Update
April 8, 2015--CFTC's Weekly Swaps Report has been updated, and is now available.
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Source: CFTC.gov
Minutes of the Federal Open Market Committee, March 17-18, 2015
April 8, 2015--The Federal Reserve Board and the Federal Open Market Committee on Wednesday released the attached minutes of the Committee meeting held on March 17-18, 2015.
A summary of economic projections made by Federal Reserve Board members and Reserve Bank presidents for the meeting is also included as an addendum to these minutes.
The minutes for each regularly scheduled meeting of the Committee ordinarily are made available three weeks after the day of the policy decision and subsequently are published in the Board's Annual Report. The descriptions of economic and financial conditions contained in these minutes and in the Summary of Economic Projections are based solely on the information that was available to the Committee at the time of the meeting.
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Source: FRB
Exchange issue strikes Merrill Lynch, Vanguard ETF performance
Analysts say price discrepancies are a reminder for advisers to use best practices when trading the funds
April 8, 2015--Advisers and investors this month are seeing surprising and, in many cases, misleading first-quarter returns as a result of a trading-exchange glitch that affected some heavily used exchange-traded funds
As a result of the computer-server difficulties on March 31 at the New York Stock Exchange Arca, the typical amount of information about buyers and sellers around the time the market closed was not provided, according to traders.
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Source: Investment News
Deutsche X-trackers Harvest CSI 500 China A-Shares Small Cap ETF (ASHS) Increases Creation Limit
April 7, 2015--Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management (Deutsche AWM) today announced that the Deutsche X-trackers Harvest CSI 500 China A-Shares Small Cap ETF (NYSE Arca:ASHS) will increase the number of creation units that it will accept from one creation to five creations per day, effective on trade date April 8, 2015.
Launched in May 2014, ASHS is one of the first US-listed ETF to provide investors with direct access to small cap China A-shares equities.
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Source: Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management
Horizons ETFs Launches the Horizons US 7-10 Year Treasury Bond ETF
April 7, 2015--Horizons ETFs Management (Canada) Inc. ("Horizons ETFs") is pleased to announce the launch of the Horizons US 7-10 Year Treasury Bond ETF ("HTB"), which will provide investors with low-cost and tax-efficient exposure to the U.S. mid-term treasuries market.
Units of the ETF will begin trading tomorrow on the Toronto Stock Exchange ("TSX") in Canadian dollars under the ticker symbol "HTB" and in U.S. dollars under the ticker symbol "HTB.U".
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Source: Horizons ETFs Management
ETF liquidity: will it be illusory in volatile markets?
April 7, 2015--An April 5th article in the FT by Stephen Foley,"The alchemy of ETF liquidity is an illusory promise" (sorry, behind the pay wall) was pretty interesting. But the real story is an investor letter by Oaktree Capital's Howard Marks called "Liquidity" that was cited by the article.
We take a look.
Foley focuses on the use of Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) as a proxy to buying baskets of individual assets. ETF have grown in popularity exponentially; one reason is that they trade throughout the day versus mutual funds that can be bought or sold at a single end of day price. This creates the look and feel of liquidity
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Source: secfinmonitor.com
US's Highland packs pipeline with ETFs
April 7, 2015--In a bid to expand its retail presence, Highland Capital Management has launched a platform that unifies its research, risk management and investment processes for liquid alternative mutual funds.
The platform, called Highland Alternative Investors, is being used to promote the Dallas-based firm's existing liquid alt funds, but Highland also plans to use it to help launch more products in the space.
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Source: FT.com
SEC Reviewing 12b-- Fees
April 7, 2015--The Securities and Exchange Commission is currently reviewing as part of its exam cycle the entire spectrum of 12b-1 fees
Marc Wyatt, deputy director of the agency's Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations, said Tuesday.
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Source: Think Advisor
