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Simplify Launches First-of-its-Kind Multi-Quantitative Strategy ETF (QIS)
July 11, 2023--Simplify team curates a diversified portfolio of quantitative strategies from across Wall Street to create ETF access to an investment category used by the biggest hedge funds and institutions
Simplify Asset Management ("Simplify"), an innovative provider of Exchange Traded Funds ("ETFs"), is today announcing the launch of its newest fund, the first-of-its-kind Simplify Multi-QIS Alternative ETF (QIS).
QIS is designed to play a key role for advisors and investors in delivering positive absolute returns and income and seeks to do so by investing in a diversified portfolio of third-party quantitative investment strategies across equities, interest rates, commodities, and currencies.
The QIS approach begins with Simplify evaluating thousands of quantitative strategies managed by the biggest investment banks, narrowing that universe down to the few hundred with the most compelling risk-adjusted return characteristics.
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Source: Simplify Asset Management Inc.
Guardian Capital LP Launches Ultra Short-Term Canadian and U.S. T-Bill Funds
July 11, 2023--Guardian Capital LP (Guardian Capital) is excited to announce the launch of the ETF series of Guardian Ultra-Short Canadian T-Bill Fund and Guardian Ultra-Short U.S. T-Bill Fund (the Guardian Funds), which are expected to commence trading on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX) when the market opens this morning.
These Guardian Funds are designed to provide investors with interest income and access to low-risk, high-quality cash alternatives by investing primarily in short-term Canadian and U.S. treasury bills, as applicable.
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Source: Guardian Capital LP
GraniteShares' Leveraged Single-Stock ETF NVDL Hits $100 Million in Assets
July 11, 2023--July 11, 2023--The GraniteShares 1.5X Long NVDA Daily ETF (NVDL) has surpassed $100 million in assets under management (AUM) ahead of the one-year launch anniversary of single-stock ETFs in the United States.
NVDL, designed to offer 1.5X (150%) daily leverage exposure to shares of Nvidia (NVDA), has provided high conviction investors magnified exposure to NVDA and more broadly, the burgeoning AI sector.
Since its inception, NVDL has captured the attention of investors seeking to capitalize on the impressive growth of Nvidia. Nvidia's stock price has soared this year, becoming the world's first chipmaker to achieve a market value of $1 trillion. NVDL has enabled investors to participate in NVDA's success story and the AI theme.
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Source: GraniteShares
CBO-Monthly Budget Review: June 2023
July 11, 2023--Summary
The federal budget deficit was $1.4 trillion in the first nine months of fiscal year 2023, the Congressional Budget Office estimates-$875 billion more than the shortfall recorded during the same period last year. Revenues were 11 percent lower and outlays were 10 percent higher from October through June than they were during the same period in fiscal year 2022.
Shifts in the timing of certain payments affect that comparison. Outlays in the first nine months of fiscal year 2023 were increased, on net, by $23 billion as a result of the shifting of certain payments both into and out of that period because the regular payment date fell on a weekend. The larger set of those shifts boosted outlays in June 2023 because July 1 was a Saturday. If not for those timing shifts, the deficit in the first nine months of 2023 would have been smaller- $1,367 billion rather than $1,390 billion.
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Source: CBO (Congressional Budget Office)
Winklevoss twins's sue crypto investor DCG after dispute over restructuring
July 8, 2023--July 8, 2023--GEMINI Trust Co, the digital-asset exchange founded by the billionaire Winklevoss brothers, filed a lawsuit against Digital Currency Group and its chief executive officer Barry Silbert, alleging "fraud and deception" stemming from a failed lending venture between the two firms.
The lawsuit represents the latest salvo in a months-ong public dispute between the Winklevoss twins and Silbert over hundreds of millions of dollars in frozen funds related to Genesis Global Holdco, a now-bankrupt DCG subsidiary. The suit was filed in the County of New York Supreme Court on Friday (Jul 7).
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Source: businesstimes.com
'Star' fund managers jump into ETF space
July 7, 2023--Investment houses are unleashing their 'brightest and best' to capitalise on rising demand for active ETF strategies
-A battery of "star" fund managers have muscled their way into exchange traded funds for the first time as the in-vogue fund structure expands from its passive, index-tracking roots into actively managed strategies.
Investment houses' rising appetite to unleash their "brightest and best" performers into the ETF world is also recognition that traditional mutual funds are rapidly losing market share, particularly in the US, and that ETFs appear to be the future.
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Source: ft.com
Cryptofinance: BlackRock takes on SEC in bitcoin ETF battle
July 7, 2023--Who would have thought the dry business of filing for an exchange traded fund with the US securities regulator could elicit so much excitement?
The crypto industry has been set alight by some of the US's biggest money managers filing applications in America to create and run spot bitcoin ETFs.
The world's largest asset manager, BlackRock, led the way, and was followed quickly by Fidelity, WisdomTree, VanEck and Invesco, among others.
Having a spot crypto ETF listed in the US, the world's largest investment market and teeming with other ETFs, has become something akin to the industry's Holy Grail. The argument goes that trading bitcoin can be expensive and there are issues such as having to store it as well as its uncertain regulatory status.
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Source: worldnewsera.com
Tradeweb Reports June 2023 Total Trading Volume of $29.3 Trillion and Average Daily Volume of $1.38 Trillion
July 6, 2023--June 2023 ADV up 10.8% YoY
Second Quarter 2023 ADV up 10.2% YoY
Tradeweb Markets Inc. (Nasdaq: TW), a leading, global operator of electronic marketplaces for rates, credit, equities and money markets, today reported total trading volume for June 2023 of $29.3 trillion (tn). Average daily volume (ADV) for the month was $1.38tn, an increase of 10.8 percent (%) year-over-year (YoY).
For the second quarter of 2023, total trading volume was $81.0tn and ADV was $1.30tn, an increase of 10.2% YoY, with preliminary average variable fees per million dollars of volume traded of $2.60.[1]z
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Source: tradeweb.com
Fidelity aims to convert $13.2bn in mutual funds to ETFs
July 5, 2023--Filing indicates the actively managed vehicles will make the transition in November
Fidelity plans to convert six mutual funds with a combined $13.2bn in assets into ETFs in November this year, a regulatory filing shows.
The funds are all actively managed, according to the filing, which lists the $5.2bn Large Cap Value Enhanced Index, $2.3bn Large Cap Growth Enhanced Index, $1.8bn Large Cap Core Enhanced Index, $1.7bn Mid Cap Enhanced Index, $1.6bn International Enhanced Index and $532mn Small Cap Enhanced Index funds. They will all convert to similarly named ETFs.
No changes will be made to the funds' investment processes or management teams.
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Source: ft.com
Federal Reserve-Minutes of the Federal Open Market Committee, June 13-14, 2023
July 5, 2023--Developments in Financial Markets and Open Market Operations
The manager turned first to a review of developments in financial markets. Policy-sensitive rates increased over the intermeeting period, reflecting indications of continued resilience in the economy, persistently elevated core inflation, and reduced downside tail risks following the resolution of the debt limit. The shift in policy expectations contributed significantly to higher Treasury yields.
The increase in nominal yields primarily reflected higher real rates rather than inflation compensation. Broad equity prices rose, although the outperformance was concentrated in a handful of companies with a large market capitalization. Cyclical sectors fared better than sectors that tend to appreciate in a downturn, suggesting some reduced investor concern about downside risks to growth.
Investor sentiment about the banking sector improved as perceived tail risks regarding regional banks appeared to have receded. Equity prices for regional banks rose over the intermeeting period but were still well below early March levels.
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Source: federalreserve.gov
