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Market Vectors High-Yield Municipal Index ETF Becomes the First High-Yield Muni ETF to Cross the $1 Billion Asset Threshold
Strong demand for yield together with historically low interest rates have fueled investor demand for municipal funds across the yield curve and credit spectrum
December 11, 2012--Market Vectors High-Yield Municipal Index ETF(NYSE Arca: HYD), has surpassed $1 billion in assets under management (AUM), it was announced.
HYD is the first high-yield municipal bond ETF, and just the fourth municipal bond ETF overall, to pass this threshold. This milestone puts the entire Market Vectors suite of six municipal income ETFs over $2 billion in AUM.
"High yield is far more than a niche in the municipal bond market as it enables traditional as well as certain for-profit issuers to access capital at a lower cost than they otherwise could in the taxable market," said James Colby, Portfolio Manager and Senior Municipal Strategist with Market Vectors ETFs. "More significantly, it is an attractive source of tax-free* yield for investors who seek to augment their income stream in a yield constrained market.
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Source: Daily Finance
CFTC's Division of Swap Dealer and Intermediary Oversight Issues No-Action Relief Providing an Alternative to Fingerprinting to Establish Fitness of Principals Residing Outside the United States
December 11, 2012--The Commodity Futures Trading Commission's Division of Swap Dealer and Intermediary Oversight (DSIO) today announced the issuance of a no-action letter relating to the fingerprinting requirement under Commission Regulation 3.10(a)(2) for certain principals of Commission registrants.
The no-action letter is in response to requests from market participants for relief from the fingerprinting requirement for principals of Commission registrants where the principals have not resided in the United States since reaching 18 years of age (Non-U.S. Principals).
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Source: CFTC.gov
CFTC's Division of Market Oversight Provides Time-Limited No-Action Relief to Provide Certain Exemptive Relief Consistent With the Expiring July 2012 Exemptive Order
December 11, 2012--The Commodity Futures Trading Commission's (CFTC) Division of Market Oversight (DMO) today announced the issuance of a time-limited no-action letter providing temporary no-action relief consistent with the intent to preserve the regulatory status quo with respect to transactions and persons described in certain paragraphs of the Commission's expiring Second Amendment to July 14, 2011 Order (due to expire on December 31, 2012) and the conditions thereto,
by permitting transactions and relevant persons to continue to operate in compliance with various CEA exemptive and excluding provisions in place prior to July 16, 2011, subject to, among other conditions, various anti-fraud and anti-manipulation prohibitions.
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Source: CFTC.org
BNY Mellon DR Indices Monthly Performance--November 2012
December 11, 2012--The BNY Mellon DR Index Monthly Performance Review October 2012 is now available.
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Source: BNY Mellon
US Senate panel to hold hearing on automated trading
Hearing to feature top exchange, bank officials
Senators to explore rules for high-speed trading
Sen. Reed called for review after Knight, Nasdaq glitches
Senators also expected to ask about SEC's security lapse
SEC had left sensitive data on unencrypted laptops
December 11, 2012-- A U.S. Senate banking subcommittee will hold a hearing next Tuesday to examine whether regulators should impose new rules to protect markets from glitches in a world of high-speed computerized trading.
The event will mark the latest hearing on the issue to be called by Rhode Island Democrat Jack Reed, who chairs the Senate Banking subcommittee on securities.
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Source: Reuters
Blue Chip Equity Indexes Based on Rapid Ratings Launched by S-Network
December 11, 2012--S-Network Global Indexes, LLC announced today the launch of the Rapid Ratings Blue Chip Equity Indexes: Rapid Ratings US Blue Chip Index (Ticker: RRBCUS) and Rapid Ratings International (ex-US) Blue Chip Index (Ticker: RRINTL).
The indexes cover the US and international large cap sectors and are based on the Financial Health Rating (FHR™), Rapid Ratings’ proprietary and innovative measure of risk. The FHR measures a company’s absolute and relative ability to compete with its global industry peers.
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Source: Rapid Ratings
S&P Dow Jones Indices Announces Changes To The S&P/TSX Canadian Indices
A Deletion From The S&P/TSX Composite Index
December 10, 2012--S&P Canadian Index Services will make the following changes in the S&P/TSX Canadian Indices:
The shareholders of Progress Energy Resources Corp. (TSX:PRQ) have voted to accept the terms of an arrangement agreement with PETRONAS Canada whereby the shares of Progress Energy will be acquired for cash consideration of $CDN22.00 per share.
Progress Energy will be removed from the S&P/TSX Composite and Capped Composite, the S&P/TSX Equity and Capped Equity, the S&P/TSX Completion and Equity Completion, the S&P/TSX Capped Energy, the S&P/TSX Composite Dividend and the S&P/TSX Composite Equal Weight Indices after the close of trading on Friday, December 14, 2012.
Source: S&P Index Services
Toroso Investments(TM) Launched to Challenge Current Advisor to Client Interactions
December 10, 2012— Toroso Investments(TM), a new investment advisory firm founded by industry veterans Larry Medin, Dan Carlson, and Michael Venuto, challenges conventional advisor-client relationships by placing an emphasis on an advisor's or a client's economic point of view, as well as risk tolerance and time horizon when constructing portfolios.
With more than 80 years of combined experience, the firm’s founding partners bring to the business an array of portfolio analytics and wealth management experience. Larry Medin serves as Toroso’s Chief Executive Officer, Dan Carlson as Chief Financial Officer, and Michael Venuto as Chief Investment Officer.
Toroso Investments is launching in direct response to the poor performance of portfolios that have followed modern portfolio theory over the past decade. By challenging modern portfolio theory, Toroso Investments fills an existing void in the marketplace, as advisors and other financial professionals are seeking new tools to help their clients express an economic point of view, as opposed to executing a portfolio based solely on well-worn definitions of risk.
The firm uses Exchange Traded Products (ETPs) to access asset allocation strategies intended to perform well in all economic climates (prosperity, recession, inflation, and deflation).
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Source: Toroso Investments
DB-Synthetic Equity & Index Strategy-North America-US ETF Weekly Review - ETP assets break the $1.3 trillion mark and record new historical high
December 10, 2012--Market and Net Cash Flows Review
Markets were mixed during last week. The US (S&P 500) edged higher by 0.13%; While, outside the US, the MSCI EAFE (in USD) and the MSCI EM (USD) rose by 0.81% and 1.7%, respectively. Moving on to other asset classes, the 10Y US Treasury Yield rose by 2 bps last week.
In the meantime, all major commodity indices pulled back. The DB Liquid Commodity Index was down by 1.84%. Similarly, the WTI Crude Oil and Silver prices retreated by 3.35% and 1.04%, respectively. Last but not least, Volatility (VIX) ended flat last week.
The total US ETP flows from all products registered $1.08bn (0.1% of AUM) of inflows during last week vs. $18.04bn (1.4%) of inflows the previous week, setting the YTD weekly flows average at +$3.2bn (+$155.27bn, +14.8% YTD in total cash flows).
Equity, Fixed Income, and Commodity ETPs experienced flows of -$0.39bn (0.0%), +$1.14bn (0.4%), +$0.4bn (0.3%) last week vs. +$16.29bn (1.8%), +$1.22bn (0.5%), +$0.5bn (0.4%) in the previous week, respectively.
Among US sectors, Consumer Staples (+$0.34bn, +3.8%) and Healthcare (+$0.27bn, +2.0%) received the top inflows, while Materials (-$0.52bn, -5.9%) and Utilities (-$0.15bn, -1.9%) experienced the largest outflows.
Within Equity ETPs, Large Cap products had the largest inflows (+$1.6bn, +0.7%). Within Fixed Income ETPs, Corporate products had the largest inflows (+$0.9bn, +0.8%); meanwhile Sovereign (-$0.7bn, -1.1%) ETPs experienced the largest outflows.
Top 3 ETPs & ETNs by inflows: EEM (+$0.9bn), SPY (+$0.9bn), QQQ (+$0.5bn) Top 3 ETPs & ETNs by outflows: VO (-$1.4bn), VT (-$1.2bn), VB (-$0.8bn)
New Launch Calendar: hedging against market uncertainty
There was 1 new ETF listed during the previous week. The new product offers exposure to broad US equity market with an implied volatility hedge by dynamically allocating between equity, volatility and cash.
Turnover Review: Floor activity decreased by 5.5%
Total weekly turnover decreased by 5.5% to $252bn vs. $267bn from the previous week. Last week's turnover level was 33% below last year's weekly average. Equity and Commodity ETPs turnover decreased by $14.3bn (-6.0%) and $0.3bn (-2.3%), respectively, while Fixed Income ETPs turnover remained mostly flat.
Assets under Management (AUM) Review:
US ETPs reach $1.3 trillion in assets
US ETP assets crossed the $1.3 trillion milestone during last week, setting a new historical high. As of last Friday, US ETPs have accumulated an asset growth of 24.5% YTD. Assets for equity, fixed income and commodity ETPs moved +$4.0bn, +$1.0bn, -$1.7bn during last week, respectively.
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Source: Deutsche Bank-Synthetic Equity & Index Strategy-North America
CBOE Futures Exchange Launched S&P 500 Variance Futures on December 10
New Contract Mirrors Quoting Conventions and Economic Performance of Over-the-Counter S&P 500 Variance Swaps
December 10, 2012--CBOE Futures Exchange, LLC (CFE) launched trading in S&P 500 Variance futures on December 10, 2012.
The listing cycle for variance futures match listed SPX options expirations. Quote and trade prices are expressed in annualized volatility terms, and trade sizes in vega notional. Post-trade, the price and quantity are converted from volatility/vega terms to variance/contract terms.
Quotes can be found from the Bloomberg terminal on "VAAA
Source: CBOE
