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IMF-Growth in Latin America Weakens for Fifth Year in a Row
April 29, 2015--Growth in Latin America and Caribbean to drop below 1 percent in 2015, modest recovery expected in 2016
South America's growth weighed down by lower commodity prices; better outlook for Mexico, Central America, Caribbean
Region needs to tackle long-standing structural problems to raise investment, productivity
view the IMF Regional Economic Outlook-Western Hemisphere Northern Spring, Southern Chills
Source: IMF
PIMCO Names Former Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke To Serve As Senior Advisor
April 29, 2015--Will contribute economic expertise and insights to firm's investment process and engage PIMCO’s clients
PIMCO, a leading global investment management firm, announced that Dr. Ben Bernanke, former Chairman of the Federal Reserve, will serve as a senior advisor to the firm, contributing his economic expertise and insights to the firm's investment process and periodically engaging PIMCO's clients.
Source: PIMCO
New Index following stocks targeted by Activist investors-Listing of the Global X Guru(TM) Activist Index ETF on NASDAQ
April 29, 2015--Solactive AG is further expanding its Guru Family with the launch of the Solactive Guru Activist Index, used as underlying for the Global X Guru(TM) Activist Index ETF (ACTX) listed today on NASDAQ.
The Solactive Guru Activist Index tracks the price movements of US listed equity holdings of a group of activist investors. Activists acquire a company's shares with the goal of enacting changes in the company's business policies to unlock additional value for shareholders.
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Source: Solactive
Recon Capital Launches Only US-Listed ETF to Track London's FTSE 100
April 29, 2015--Trading under the ticker UK, the Recon Capital FTSE 100 ETF will seek to provide country-specific exposure to dominant European market
Recon Capital, the issuer behind the Recon Capital Nasdaq 100 Covered Call ETF and the Recon Capital DAX Germany ETF, has expanded its suite of products with the launch of the Recon Capital FTSE 100 ETF, the only U.S.-listed ETF benchmarked to the FTSE 100. The fund is slated to be available for trading on April 29, 2015.
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Source: Recon Capital
Deutsche dissolving target-date ETFs
April 29, 2015--Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management is liquidating its X-trackers target-date retirement exchange traded funds.
The five retirement-themed funds-In-Target Date, 2010 Target Date, 2020 Target Date, 2030 Target Date and 2040 Target Date-will stop accepting creation orders on May 15 and will cease trading on May 18, according to a Deutsche AWM release.
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Source: FT.com
Federal Reserve issues FOMC statement
April 29, 2015--Information received since the Federal Open Market Committee met in March suggests that economic growth slowed during the winter months, in part reflecting transitory factors. The pace of job gains moderated, and the unemployment rate remained steady.
A range of labor market indicators suggests that underutilization of labor resources was little changed. Growth in household spending declined; households' real incomes rose strongly, partly reflecting earlier declines in energy prices, and consumer sentiment remains high. Business fixed investment softened, the recovery in the housing sector remained slow, and exports declined. Inflation continued to run below the Committee's longer-run objective, partly reflecting earlier declines in energy prices and decreasing prices of non-energy imports. Market-based measures of inflation compensation remain low; survey-based measures of longer-term inflation expectations have remained stable.
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Source: FRB
PureFunds ISE Cyber Security ETF (NYSEArca: HACK) Cross-Lists on Bolsa Mexicana de Valores
April 29, 2015--Factor Advisors, a subsidiary of ETF Managers Group, in partnership with PureFunds(R) and ISE ETF Ventures today announced that it listed on The Mexican Stock Exchange, Bolsa Mexicana de Valores (BMV), the PureFunds ISE Cyber Security ETF (NYSEArca: HACK).
am Masucci, founder and CEO of ETF Managers Group, said: "We are pleased to cross-list HACK on the Bolsa Mexicana de Valores as we cross-list our first exchange traded fund (ETF). This is our first foreign exchange to cross-list with, as it has continued to exhibit acceptance and growth of ETF products. In recognition of this acceptance, we believe Mexico presents a significant opportunity for our ETF products to exhibit continued growth."
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Source: ISE ETF Ventures
Treasury ETFs Inflows Outpacing All Other Bond Funds This Month
April 27, 2015--Exchange-traded funds that hold U.S. Treasuries are seeing more cash inflows this month than any other fixed-income funds for the first time this year.
U.S. government debt ETFs have brought in $1.5 billion since March, according to Bloomberg data. If that trend holds, it will be the first time since October that inflows into the funds will outpace those of other bond ETFs.
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Source: Bloomberg
NASDAQ Stock Market LLC Files Proposed Rule Change to List and Trade 18 Eaton Vance and Parametric NextShares(TM) Funds
April 27, 2015--Eaton Vance Management (Eaton Vance) and Navigate Fund Solutions LLC (Navigate), wholly owned subsidiaries of Eaton Vance Corp. (NYSE: EV), today announced the filing by The NASDAQ Stock Market LLC (Nasdaq) with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
(SEC) of a proposed rule change to list and trade under Nasdaq Rule 5745 the shares of the listed NextSharesTM exchange-traded managed funds (Funds)
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Source: nextshares.com
Vanguard looking to license its cost-cutting ETF patent
April 26, 2015--Vanguard is considering letting others in on its exclusive right to offer exchange traded funds as a share class of existing mutual funds through a licensing agreement with USAA.
Officials from the two firms confirmed they are negotiating a deal that would give USAA access to Vanguard's patent-protected ETF share class methodology.
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Source: FT.com
