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Balancing Work and Care in Aging Societies
April 13, 2016--From Europe and Central Asia to East Asia and the Pacific, rapid aging-increased life expectancy and lower fertility rates-puts enormous pressures on societies.
Aging economies need to increase women's labor force participation to counter the shrinking working population and boost economic growth.
This means redistributing the supply of informal and formal care, but also changing social norms and policies that tend to designate women as primary caregivers.
Source: World Bank
IMF World Economic Outlook (WEO): Too Slow for Too Long, April 2016
April 12, 2016--The baseline projection for global growth in 2016 is a modest 3.2 percent, broadly in line with last year, and a 0.2 percentage point downward revision relative to the January 2016 World Economic Outlook Update.
The recovery is projected to strengthen in 2017 and beyond, driven primarily by emerging market and developing economies, as conditions in stressed economies start gradually to normalize. But uncertainty has increased, and risks of weaker growth scenarios are becoming more tangible. The fragile conjuncture increases the urgency of a broad-based policy response to raise growth and manage vulnerabilities.
view the World Economic Outlook (WEO) Too Slow for Too Long April 2016
Source: IMF
BIS-Tenth progress report on adoption of Basel III standards published by the Basel Committee
April 11, 2016--The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision has today issued the Tenth progress report on adoption of the Basel regulatory framework.
This report sets out the adoption status of Basel III standards for each Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) member jurisdiction as of end-March 2016. It updates the Committee's previous progress reports which have been published on a semiannual basis since October 2011 under the Committee's Regulatory Consistency Assessment Programme (RCAP).
view the Tenth progress report on adoption of the Basel regulatory framework
Source: BIS
ETF Securities Weekly Flows Analysis-The Fed minutes boost gold
April 11, 2016--Gold ETPs registered strong inflows after the release of the Federal Reserve (Fed) minutes of the March meeting on Wednesday suggested the chances of a rate hike in the short term were extremely limited.
The larger than expected draw on US crude oil inventory helped maintain flows into oil ETPs steady.
Inflows into broad commodity basket have risen to their highest level since December last year.
Source: etfsecurities.com
Assets invested in ETFs/ETPs listed globally have broken through the 3 trillion US dollars milestone for the second time at the end of Q1 2016, according to ETFGI
April 11, 2016-Assets invested in ETFs/ETPs listed globally have broken through the US$ 3 trillion milestone for the second time at the end of Q1. At the end of May 2015 the assets in ETFs/ETPs listed globally first exceeded the US$ 3 trillion milestone.
During March ETFs/ETPs listed globally gathered US$45.30 in net new assets. This marks the 26th consecutive month of net inflows. The Global ETF/ETP industry had 6,240 ETFs/ETPs, with 12,042 listings, assets of US$3.07 trillion, from 277 providers listed on 64 exchanges in 51 countries, according to preliminary data from ETFGI's March 2016 global ETF and ETP industry insights report.
Active asset managers knocked by shift to passive strategies
April 11, 2016--The deteriorating ability of money managers to beat their indices has led to investors accelerating a shift towards passive strategies such as exchange traded funds, adding to the pressure on actively managed funds to justify their fees.
Equity funds that are actively managed have suffered net outflows of $34.9bn globally this year but stock market ETFs have taken in another $7.6bn, according to research company EPFR, despite the turbulent performance of markets.
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Source: FT.com
AdvisorShares Weekly Market Update-This Week in Active ETFs: Heads (Of State) Are Gonna Roll?
April 11, 2016--Macro
Last Monday we mentioned the so called Panama Papers in passing with a stay tuned point of view and sure enough the story has and continues to unfold. The biggest news for now appears
to be the resignation of Iceland's Prime Minister Sigmundur
David Gunnlaugsson after it was discovered/alleged that he
may have had some shady dealings. For his part however, Gunnlaugsson claimed he was just stepping aside for now, and
not because of the Panama Papers.
A bigger domino would be if David Cameron's inclusion in the scandal via an investment he inherited from his father were to lead to his ouster.
It was kind of a quiet week on the economic front and so a quiet week for domestic equities which drifted lower going into the start of the Q1 earnings season in which profits are estimated to decline 7.9%
Source: AdvisorShares
WisdomTree grapples with $5bn outflows
April 10, 2016--The world's most shorted asset manager is struggling to stem outflows from its exchange-traded funds.
Source: Financial News
DECPG Global Weekly-April 8, 2016
April 8, 2016--TAKING STOCK/WEEKLY INSIGHT
U.S. services sector picked up steam in March; weekly jobless claims fell more than expected
Euro Area services sector expanded in March at weakest pace since January 2015
China's reserves rose for the first time in 5 months
India cut policy rate to 5-year low
South Africa's manufacturing sector rebounded
Source: World Bank
Infographic-IMF Growth Forecasts: Missing the Mark So Far
April 8, 2016--Projections on the global economic recovery have been overestimated by most policymakers and institutions for some time now. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has been no exception to this fallacy.
Whether it is simple error, wishful thinking, or a complex system that is to blame, the economists at the IMF have now missed the mark for five years in a row on their global real GDP growth forecasts. After multiple revisions downward, their most recent January 2016 report finally estimated growth for this year to be a mediocre 3.4%.
