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BlackRock Canada Announces Launch of the iShares MSCI Europe IMI Index ETF
April 22, 2014--iShares, the industry-leading exchange-traded fund (ETF) business at BlackRock Asset Management Canada Limited (BlackRock Canada), an indirect, wholly-owned subsidiary of BlackRock, Inc. (BlackRock), today announced the launch of the iShares MSCI Europe IMI Index ETF (TSX:XEU) which seeks to track the MSCI Europe IMI (Investable Market Index).
he MSCI Europe IMI captures large-, mid-and small-cap representation across 15 the developed markets countries in Europe, and includes 1, 315 constituent equities. The new fund's management fee is 0.25% and was launched under the ticker TSX:XEU.
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Source: Bloomberg
WisdomTree Extends Global Reach in Latin America
April 21, 2014--WisdomTree Investments, Inc., an exchange-traded fund ("ETF") sponsor and asset manager, today announced La Comisión Nacional del Sistema de Ahorro para el Retiro (CONSAR), the Mexican pension funds investment regulator, has approved 6 WisdomTree ETFs for sale to Mexican Pension Funds (AFORES).
This is a necessary condition before they can be purchased in accordance with pension plan investment guidelines. There are currently approximately $140 billion (USD) in assets invested in Mexican pension funds.1
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Source: CNBC
BMO Asset Management Inc. Cuts Management Fees on Its ETFs
April 21, 2014--BMO Asset Management Inc. ("BMO AM") today announced that it is reducing the maximum annual management fee on certain of its exchange traded funds (collectively, "the ETFs").
Effective on or about April 30, 2014, the annual management fee for the ETFs will be reduced as follows:
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Source: MarketWatch
NYSE ARCA-1 ETF Launch-EGShares
April 21, 2014--NYSE Euronext is pleased to announce that on Wednesday, April 23, 2014, the following ETF will be listed on NYSE Arca and will begin trading as a new issue:
Security Name: EGShares Blue Chip ETF
Short Name: EGShares BlueChipETF
Cusip: 268461 365
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Source: NYSE Arca
BMO Asset Management Inc. Cuts Management Fees on Its ETFs
April 21, 2014--BMO Asset Management Inc. ("BMO AM") today announced that it is reducing the maximum annual management fee on certain of its exchange traded funds (collectively, "the ETFs").
Effective on or about April 30, 2014, the annual management fee for the ETFs will be reduced as follows:
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Source: BMO
Invesco PowerShares to Launch the First Variable Rate Preferred ETF
April 21, 2014--Invesco PowerShares Capital Management LLC, a leading global provider of exchange-traded funds (ETFs), today announced the anticipated listing of the PowerShares Variable Rate Preferred Portfolio (VRP) on May 1, 2014, on the NYSE Arca. VRP will provide income-seeking investors efficient access to a portfolio of variable-rate preferred securities.
Variable-rate preferred securities are typically issued at rates below fixed-rate preferred securities of similar quality, in exchange for the issuer bearing most of the risk for changes in interest rates. Accordingly, variable-rate preferred securities are priced more like short-term instruments, rather than long-term instruments, and are generally less sensitive than fixed-rate preferred securities to changes in interest rates.
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Source: Invesco PowerShares
BlackRock recruits for Boston push
April 21, 2014--BlackRock's iShares exchange-traded funds business is seeking to woo asset managers in Boston, hiring an MSCI executive director to connect institutional clients there with its capital markets services.
The hire is part of a push to sell more ETFs to asset managers, hedge funds and family office clients.
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Source: Financial News
High-frequency traders: heroes or hoodlums?
April 20, 2014--By using the emotive phrase "rigging the market" to describe the impact of high-frequency trading on stock markets, the author Michael Lewis has guaranteed himself both extensive publicity and enhanced sales for his book, Flash Boys .
In addition, by casting his story in Manichean terms as a tale of one heroic outsider taking on the evil big boys of Wall Street...
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Source: FT.com
The Federal Budget in 2013: An Infographic
April 18, 2014--The infographic-The Federal Budget in 2013 was released today.
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Source: Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
IMF Working paper-Official Demand for U.S. Debt: Implications for U.S. Real Interest Rates
April 18, 2014-- Summary: By constructing and estimating a structural arbitrage-free model of demand pressures on US real rates, we find that recent purchases of US government debt securities by the Fed and foreign officials have significantly affected the level and the dynamics of US real rates. In particular, by 2008, foreign purchases of US Treasuries are estimated to have had cumulatively reduced long term real yields by around 80 basis points.
The subsequent total impact of Fed purchases in 2008-2012 has been even larger: the quantitative easing (QE) has depressed real 10-year yields by around 140 basis points. Our findings also reveal that the Fed policy interventions and foreign official purchases affect longer term real bonds mostly through a reduction in the bond premium.
view the IMF working paper-Official Demand for U.S. Debt: Implications for U.S. Real Interest Rates
Source: IMF
