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JPMorgan Offers Free Trades, Accelerating a Pricing War
August 21, 2018--The bank says a new investing service will allow at least 100 free stock trades over one year
JPMorgan Chase & Co. is boosting its digital investing service with free trades for customers in a move that sent the world of online brokerages into disarray Tuesday.
The bank is trying to bring in more first-time investors, including millennials, as well as customers of the bank who invest elsewhere.
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Source: Wall Street Journal
AdvisorShares Active ETF Market Share Update-Week Ending 8/17/2018
August 20, 2018--Assets in actively managed ETFs added $517 million last week to reach $61.98 billion in total net assets.
First Trust took the top spot in new AUM growth with $205 million, followed by JP Morgan with a $154 million gain.
There were two fund launches and no fund closures, which brought the total of actively managed ETFs currently trading at 239.
Effective today, Invesco is lowering management fees on the following ETFs:
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Market Wrap-Up
view more Perth Mint Physical Gold ETF (NYSE Arca: AAAU) Debuts as First ETF with Sovereign-Backed Gold view more
By offering a competitive set of active, passive and alternative capabilities, the firm is well positioned to help clients achieve their desired investment objectives.
Invesco Dow Jones Industrial Average Dividend ETF (Ticker: DJD) management fee will be lowered from 0.30% to 0.07%.
Source: Invesco
August 17, 2018--The current reports for the week of August 17, 2018 are now available.
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Source: CFTC.gov
August 17, 2018--The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that it has voted to adopt amendments to certain disclosure requirements that have become duplicative, overlapping, or outdated in light of other Commission disclosure requirements, U.S. Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), or changes in the information environment.
The amendments are intended to simplify and update the disclosure of information to investors, including long-term Main Street investors, and reduce compliance burdens for companies without significantly altering the total mix of information available to investors.
Source: SEC.gov
August 16, 2018--New Listings* (YTD July 2018)
201 new listings on TSX (81) and TSXV (120)
94 Companies + 57 ETFs + 47 CPCs + 3 Closed‐End Funds
Equity Capital Raised (YTD July 2018)
$25.1 billion on TSX and TSXV
$61.8 million-Average financing size on TSX
$4.7 million-Average financing size on TSXV
Source: tsx.com
August 16, 2018--Tradeweb Markets, a global leader in electronic financial marketplaces, today announced the launch of the Tradeweb U.S. options platform for institutional customer-to-dealer trading.
Designed to improve efficiency and access to liquidity in the surging U.S. options market, the Tradeweb U.S. equity options platform allows institutional investors to directly source full-size price quotes from multiple market makers using the request for quote (RFQ) protocol Tradeweb pioneered in the fixed income cash and derivatives markets as well as ETF markets.
Source: finextra.com
August 16, 2018--Purpose Investments Inc. ("Purpose") is pleased to announce that the special meetings relating to the approval of the following previously announced mergers (the "Mergers") were held today.
These Mergers are a continuation of Purpose's efforts to enhance and improve its product lineup, and ensure investors have access to the best solutions to help drive better portfolio outcomes. Accordingly, the following Mergers will take effect on or about August 27, 2018:
Source: Purpose Investments
August 16, 2018--For the first week in four investors were net redeemers of fund assets (including those of conventional funds and ETFs), withdrawing $1.6 billion for Thomson Reuters Lipper's fund-flows week ended August 15, 2018.
However, fund investors continued to pad the coffers of taxable bond funds (+$798 million) and municipal bond funds (+$452 million), while being net redeemers of money market funds (-$2.2 billion) and equity funds (-$639 million).
As the tug of war between China and the U.S. over tariffs continued, news of Turkey's currency crisis put the spotlight on global risks during the fund-flows week and weighed heavily on the global markets.
Source: Thomson Reuters
August 15, 2018--AAAU is fully backed by physical gold and that underlying physical gold is guaranteed by the Government of Western Australia with shares exchangeable for delivery of a wide range of gold products
The Perth Mint, Australia's largest precious metals refining, minting and depository enterprise, today announced the launch of the Perth Mint Physical Gold ETF (NYSE: Arca: AAAU) on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). Unique in the marketplace, AAAU is the first gold exchange-traded fund (ETF) that is backed by pure gold, where that physical gold is guaranteed by a sovereign entity and offers shares that can be exchanged for physical gold.
Source: Perth Mint
