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CBOE Futures Exchange Reports Record Trading Volume For 2014
January 5, 2015--New All--Time Highs for Exchange-Wide, VIX Futures Trading
Fifth Consecutive Record Year for VIX Futures
Over 50 Million VIX Futures Contracts Traded
Several Records Achieved During 2014
The CBOE Futures Exchange, LLC (CFE®) today reported that annual trading volume for total exchange-wide activity and for futures on the CBOE Volatility Index(R) (VIX(R) Index) reached new all-time highs in 2014, with multiple trading records set during the year.
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Source: CBOE
Altavista-Sector SPDR Analyzer + Equal Sector Weight ETF (EQL), January 2015
January 5, 2015--The monthly update on each of the nine Select Sector SPDRs plus the ALPS Equal Sector Weight ETF.
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Analyzer January 2015 Select Sector SPDR Edition
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Source: AltaVista Research
NASDAQ to Buy Dorsey, Wright & Associates for $225M
January 5, 2015--NASDAQ decided to purchase Dorsey,Wright & Associates, LLC (DWA) for $225 million to strengthen its position as a leading smart beta index provider in the United States.
NASDAQ will become the largest smart beta indexes provider
According to NASDAQ, the acquisition will boost its index portfolio and bring model-based strategies and analysis to support the financial advisory community.
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Source: ValueWeek
Vanguard Sets Record Funds Inflow
Investors Gave Stock Pickers a Vote of No Confidence in 2014
January 4, 2015--Investors gave stock pickers a resounding vote of no confidence in 2014, pouring $216 billion-a record inflow for any mutual-fund firm-into Vanguard Group, the biggest provider of index-tracking products, according to preliminary figures from the mutual-fund group.
Those large inflows accentuate a trend away from fund managers and toward so-called passive investments that mimic indexes and other benchmarks for a fraction of the cost of the typical mutual fund.
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Source: Wall Street Journal
Dodge & Cox stockpicking fund bucks trend
January 4, 2015--As equity market investors moved in droves from active managers to index trackers in 2014, one stockpicking fund that bucked the trend did so in a remarkable way: without spending a cent on marketing.
The Dodge & Cox International Stock Fund is on course to be the year's most popular actively managed US mutual fund, as measured by customer inflows, having taken $10.1bn in the 11 months to November.
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Source: FT.com
Mutual fund fee reform coming-maybe-sooner than you think
January 3, 2015--Canadian regulators will be armed with new research in early 2015 that investor advocates hope will finally prompt a clampdown on the use of embedded commissions on mutual fund sales.
The compensation method is one that some say can lead to biased advice and eat into long-term returns.
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Source: Financial Post
Five ProShares ETFs Join BATS Competitive Liquidity Provider Program
January 2, 2015--ProShares, a premier provider of alternative ETFs, announced today that five ProShares ETFs listed on the BATS Exchange will begin participating in the BATS Competitive Liquidity Provider ("CLP") Program starting today.
These ETFs join two ProShares ETFs already participating in the program.
Fund Name: ProShares Short Term USD Emerging Markets Bond ETF (EMSH) Date of Entry: 1/2/2015
Fund Name: ProShares Investment Grade—Interest Rate Hedged(IGHG)
Date of Entry: 1/2/2015
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Source: ProShares
ISE Reports Business Activity for December and Full Year 2014
January 2, 2015--For full year 2014, ISE and ISE Gemini combined for 16.0% equity options market share, excluding dividend trades, with an ADV of 2.4 million contracts.
ISE Gemini had an ADV of over 500,000 contracts in 2014.
Dividend trades made up 1.6% of industry volume in 2014, the lowest since ISE began tracking the statistic in 2010.
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Source: ISE
CFTC Provides Notice and Clarification of the Reopened Comment Period for its Rulemaking Proposals on Position Limits for Physical Commodity Derivatives and Aggregation
January 2, 2015--The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC or Commission) has submitted for publication in the Federal Register a clarification and notice regarding the
reopened comment periods for two Position Limit rulemakings.
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Source: CFTC.gov
Can Wall Street reform survive 2015?
January 1, 2015--In the final weeks of 2014, critics of President Obama's Wall Street reform scored their biggest victory to date, rolling back a new regulation on derivatives.
But it's just the first act of the GOP’s battle against the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform Act, as Republicans hope to make a bigger imprint as they take control of both houses of Congress.
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Source: msnbc.com
