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Lipper U.S. Mutual Funds & ETPs Q3 2018 Snapshot
October 19, 2018--In this issue of Lipper's U.S. Mutual Funds & Exchange-Traded Products Snapshot we feature a summary of total net assets (TNA), estimated net flows, new fund creations, and fund liquidations for conventional funds and exchange-traded products (ETPs) for Q3 2018, comparing the changes to those of prior quarters and highlighting the largest individual gainers and losers of both groups.
The Snapshot provides readers a powerful, easy-to-use guide and quick-reference tool to help them discern fund trends during the quarter.
Highlights:
TNA in the conventional funds business (not including ETPs and variable insurance products [VIPs]) advanced, climbing $538.8 billion from Q2 2018 to $19.436 trillion for Q3 2018.
TNA in U.S. ETPs (including exchange-traded funds, exchange-traded notes, exchange-traded commodities, limited partnership commodity pools, master limited partnerships, and exchange-traded fund unit investment trusts) rose 5.72% from $3.534 trillion for Q2 2018 to a little over $3.736 trillion for Q3 2018.
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Source: Thomson Reuters
Warnings mount for leveraged-loan market
October 19, 2018--At the most recent meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee in September, Federal Reserve officials debated the usual topics.
Is inflation running hot? How tight is the labour market? And of course, what's the future path of interest rates? This time around, however, policy makers raised concerns about something else as well: leveraged loans.
view more U.S. Weekly FundFlows Insight Report: Despite Plus-Side Returns, Fund Investors Remain Guarded During the Week view more PGIM Investments expands ETF platform with new QMA active equity strategies view more Treasury Releases Report on Macroeconomic and Foreign Exchange Policies of Major Trading Partners of the United States Further, no trading partner was found to have met the 1988 legislative standards during the current reporting period.
"The Treasury Department is working vigorously to ensure that our trading partners dismantle unfair barriers that stand in the way of free, fair, and reciprocal trade. Of particular concern are China's lack of currency transparency and the recent weakness in its currency. view mre SEC Investor Advocate, RAND Issue Retail-Advice Report The 156-page research report, The Retail Market for Investment Advice, was undertaken prior to (and is separate from) the SEC's release of the proposed standards of conduct rulemaking package. view more Minutes of the Federal Open Market Committee, September 25-26, 2018 view more Official Statistics: Forecasts for the UK economy: October 2018 SEC Ruling Takes Aim at Stock-Exchange Profits view more
The FinHub will serve as a resource for public engagement on the SEC's FinTech-related issues and initiatives, such as distributed ledger technology (including digital assets), automated investment advice, digital marketplace financing, and artificial intelligence/machine learning. The FinHub also replaces and builds on the work of several internal working groups at the SEC that have focused on similar issues.
Source: SEC.gov
October 18, 2018--For the second week in three investors were net sellers of fund assets (including those of conventional funds and ETFs), withdrawing a net $35.0 billion for Lipper’s fund-flows week ended October 17, 2018. Fund investors were net redeemers of equity funds (-$17.5 billion), money market funds (-$15.0 billion), taxable fixed income funds (-$1.9 billion), and municipal bond funds (-$642 million).
Market Wrap-Up
Investors started the fund-flows week on a sour note, pushing the markets closer to correction territory after the Dow Jones Industrial Average lost almost 1,400 points over two days as investors continued to fret over rising bond yields and the prospect of higher interest rates.
Source: Thomson Reuters
October 18, 2018--PGIM Investments today launched the first of four actively managed equity exchange-traded funds (ETFs) that it plans to roll out in 2018, expanding the platform from the two actively managed fixed income ETFs launched earlier this year.
Sub-advised by QMA, the quantitative equity and global multi-asset solutions manager of PGIM, the PGIM QMA Strategic Alpha Large-Cap Core ETF (NYSE Arca: PQLC) seeks long-term growth of capital by investing primarily in large-cap stock.
Source: PGIM Investments
October 17, 2018--The U.S. Department of the Treasury today delivered to Congress the semiannual Report on Macroeconomic and Foreign Exchange Policies of Major Trading Partners of the United States.
The Report concluded that while the currency practices of six countries were found to require close attention, no major U.S. trading partner met the relevant 2015 legislative criteria for enhanced analysis during the period covered by the Report.
Source: treasury.gov
October 17, 2018-The research is aimed at helping the SEC craft its advice-standards package.
The Securities and Exchange Commission's Office of the Investor Advocate and the RAND Corp. have released research that aims to help the SEC craft its advice-standards package for brokers and advisors.
Source: thinkadvisor.com
October 17, 2018--Developments in Financial Markets and Open Market Operations
The manager of the System Open Market Account (SOMA) discussed U.S. and global financial developments. In global markets, strains in emerging market economies (EMEs) contributed to volatility in currency and equity markets over the period.
In addition, concerns about trade tensions between the United States and China were the focus of a great deal of attention among market participants. Such concerns led the Shanghai Composite index to drop as much as 8 percent at one point over the intermeeting period before recovering somewhat. The renminbi, however, was relatively stable, reportedly in part because investors believed that Chinese authorities were prepared to take measures to counter significant renminbi depreciation.
Source: federalreserve.gov
October 17, 2018--Forecasts for the UK economy is a monthly comparison of independent forecasts.
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Source: HM Treasury
October 16, 2018--The Securities and Exchange Commission decision blocking higher fees for certain stock-market data casts doubt on a crucial and growing source of revenue that has helped exchanges make up for the declining income from trading.
In recent years, U.S. stock exchanges thought they had a guaranteed profit machine that could revive their sagging businesses: selling market data at ever-higher prices to a captive audience of Wall Street banks and traders.
Source: Wall Street Journal
