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Horizons ETFs Announces Appointment of Co-CEOs
March 2, 2015--Horizons ETFs Management (Canada) Inc. ("Horizons ETFs"), the Toronto-based manager and trustee of a family of exchange traded funds, announces today that Mr. Taeyong Lee, Executive Chairman of Horizons ETFs, along with Steven Hawkins, Chief Investment Officer of Horizons ETFs, have been appointed as Co-Chief Executive Officers of Horizons ETFs.
Going forward, Mr. Lee will serve as Executive Chairman and Co-CEO and Mr. Hawkins will serve as Co-CEO and Chief Investment Officer. Mr. Lee and Mr. Hawkins have also been appointed as Co-CEOs of AlphaPro Management Inc., which serves as the manager and trustee for certain of the exchange traded funds in the Horizons ETFs family.
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Source: Horizons ETFs Management (Canada) Inc.
BlackRock Reduces Fees on Five Bond ETFs, Joining Rivals
March 2, 2015--BlackRock Inc., the world's largest money manager, cut fees on five bond exchange-traded funds, joining rivals in lowering costs to attract more investors.
BlackRock cut fees on iShares J.P. Morgan USD Emerging Markets Bond ETF, iShares Emerging Markets Local Currency Bond ETF, iShares Emerging Markets High Yield Bond ETF, iShares Emerging Markets Corporate Bond ETF and iShares B-Ca Rated Corporate Bond ETF, the New York-based firm said in a statement.
ISE Holdings Reports Business Activity for February 2015
Dividend trades made up 1.1% of industry volume in February 2015.
view more CBOE Holdings Reports February 2015 Trading Volume view more Institutions Pour Cash Into Bond ETFs view more The walls close in on the fund management market view more PowerShares Reopens Creations for 11 ETFs view more CBOE to expand VIX options trading hours from Monday view more SEC: Fee Rate Advisory #4 for Fiscal Year 2015 The Section 31 fee rate for fiscal 2015 will remain at the current rate of $18.40 per million. This rate will remain in place until September 30, 2015, or 60 days after the enactment of a regular FY 2016 appropriation, whichever is later. The Section 31 assessment on round turn transactions in security futures also will remain at $0.0042 per transaction. view more CFTC.gov Commitments of Traders Reports Update
Source: Bloomberg
March 2, 2015--ISE and ISE Gemini combined represent 12.5% of equity options market share, excluding dividend trades.
ISE and ISE Gemini reported a combined ADV of 1.8 million contracts.
Source: ISE (International Securities Exchange)
ADV of 4.7 Million Contacts Down 13% vs January
Total Volume of 88.5 Million Contracts Traded
March 2, 2015--CBOE Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: CBOE) reported today that average daily volume (ADV) during February for options contracts on Chicago Board Options Exchange(R)(CBOE(R)) and C2 Options ExchangeSM (C2SM) and futures contracts on CBOE Futures Exchange (CFE®) was 4.7 million contracts, a decrease of 22 percent from February 2014 and a decline of 13 percent from January 2015.
Total options and futures volume at CBOE Holdings during February was 88.5 million contracts, a decrease of 22 percent from a year ago and down 17 percent from January 2015.
Source: CBOE Holdings, Inc.
Move to exchange-traded funds comes as big investors deal with bond-trading challenges
March 1, 2015--Institutions are piling into exchange-traded bond funds at the fastest pace on record, driven by forces reshaping the increasingly illiquid corporate-debt market and their desire to stay nimble ahead of expected interest-rate moves.
Bond ETFs took in $32 billion globally this year through Feb. 26, according to data from...
Source: Wall Street Journal
March 1, 2015--Patience with the investment management market is wearing dangerously thin, says Chris Newlands
What could previously have been described as rumblings of discontent about high fees and potential conflicts of interest within the sector have intensified in the last few days with some very influential voices adding volume to the calls for change.
Source: FT.com
February 28, 2015--Fund company PowerShares reopened creation unit activity in 11 exchange-traded funds following a one-day suspension that unmoored at least one ETF from the value of its assets.
Invesco's (IVZ) PowerShares temporarily curtailed share creations on Wednesday, including those in the $4 billion PowerShares DB Commodity Index Tracking Fund (DBC) and the $1.2 billion PowerShares DB Dollar Index Bullish Fund (UUP). It did so while taking full managerial control over these funds.
Source: Barron's
February 27, 2015--CBOE Holdings Inc's Chicago Board Options Exchange, the largest U.S. stock-options market, is set to extend trading hours for two of its most heavily traded index options starting Monday.
The exchange plans to add more than six hours of additional trading five days a week for options on the S&P 500 and the CBOE VIX index, a broadly used gauge of market volatility based on U.S. equity option prices.
Source: CBOE
February 27, 2015--Pursuant to Section 31(j)(2) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Commission has determined that a mid-year adjustment to the Section 31 fee rate for fiscal year 2015 is not required.
These adjustments do not directly affect the amount of funding available to the SEC.
Source: SEC.gov
February 27, 2015--The current reports for the week of February 24, 2015 are now available.
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Source: CFTC.gov
