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CFTC.gov Commitments of Traders Reports Update
August 10, 2018--The current reports for the week of August 10, 2018 are now available.
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Source: CFTC.gov
Hartford Funds Announces the Closure and Liquidation of Two Exchange-Traded Funds
August 9, 2018--Hartford Corporate Bond ETF and Hartford Quality Bond ETF Are Expected to Liquidate in September 2018.
Hartford Funds,a leading asset management firm- has announced that it will close and liquidate two exchange-traded funds.
Hartford Funds commitment to responding to investors' needs includes a regular review of its product lineup, which has led to a decision to liquidate the following funds: Hartford Corporate Bond ETF (HCOR) and Hartford Quality Bond ETF (HQBD), each a series of Hartford Funds Exchange-Traded Trust (each a "Fund" and, collectively, the "Funds").
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Source: Hartford Funds
JPMorgan's ETF Business Is Finally Catching Up to Goldman
August 9, 2018--JPMorgan Chase & Co.'s exchange'traded funds raked in $2.5 billion in July, a record haul for the bank that signals a turnaround for the lagging four-year-old business.
The New York bank's asset-management division launched its first ETF in June 2014, but it took more than two years for its funds to crack $1 billion in assets. It was a slow start, especially compared with Goldman Sachs Group Inc., which debuted its first ETF a year after JPMorgan but raised $3 billion in just 18 months.
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Source: Wall Street Journal
OppenheimerFunds Launches High-Dividend, Value-Oriented International ETFs
August 9, 2018--OppenheimerFunds Investments has expanded on its line of revenue-weighted ETF strategies with two new international dividend options.
OppenheimerFunds launched the Oppenheimer Emerging Markets Ultra Dividend Revenue ETF (NYSEArca: REDV) and the Oppenheimer International Ultra Dividend Revenue ETF ..
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Source: nasdaq.com
Invesco Adds Two Defined Maturity Bond ETFs to its BulletShares Suite
August 9, 2018--New Corporate Bond ETF and High Yield Corporate ETF replace maturing Funds
Invesco Ltd. (NYSE: IVZ) a leading global provider of exchange-traded funds (ETFs), announced today the launch of two new BulletShares ETFs, the BulletShares 2028 Corporate Bond ETF (Ticker: BSCS) and the BulletShares 2026 High Yield Corporate Bond ETF (Ticker: BSJQ).
The ETFs will be incorporated into the firm's BulletShares(R) Corporate Bond and BulletShares(R) High Yield Corporate Bond ETF portfolios, which provide defined maturity exposure through investment-grade corporate bonds in a transparent ETF wrapper.
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Source: Invesco
U.S. Weekly FundFlows Insight Report: Trade-War Jitters Keep Equity Mutual Fund Investors at Bay During the Week
August 9, 2018--For the third consecutive week investors were net purchasers of overall fund assets (including those of conventional funds and ETFs), injecting $20.5 billion for Thomson Reuters Lipper's fund-flows week ended August 8, 2018.
But, despite continued strong corporate earnings and a fair nonfarm-payrolls report during the week, fund investors were net redeemers of equity funds (-$962 million), while they padded the coffers of money market funds (+$16.6 billion), taxable bond funds (+$4.2 billion net), and municipal bond funds (+$623 million net).
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Source: Thomson Reuters
JPMorgan Adds 2 ETFs To BetaBuilders Lineup
August 8, 2018--J.P. Morgan Asset Management, the asset management and exchange traded funds arm of JPMorgan Chase & Co., added to its lineup of plain vanilla ETFs Wednesday with the debut of two products.
The JPMorgan BetaBuilders Developed Asia-ex Japan ETF (CBOE: BBAX) and the JPMorgan BetaBuilders Canada ETF (CBOE: BBCA) are the new additions to firm's ETF stable.
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Source: benzinga.com
Innovator Lists S&P 500 Defined Outcome ETFs; Seek to protect against losses of 9%, 15%, or 30%
August 8, 2018--ETFs provide exposure to the S&P 500 with downside protection levels of 9%, 15%, or 30% over an Outcome Period of approximately one year.
Innovator ETFs sets sights on the multitrillion dollar structured products and insurance industries providing simple, transparent, low cost access to defined outcomes.
Innovator Capital Management, LLC (Innovator) announced today the listing of the Innovator S&P 500 Defined Outcome ETFs-July Series on Cboe. The Innovator Defined Outcome ETFs seek to offer investors exposure to the S&P 500 Price Return Index (S&P 500) to a Cap, with downside protection levels (or "buffers") of 9%, 15%, or 30% over an Outcome Period of approximately one year, at which point each ETF will reset. This is the first time investors will have access to structured outcomes through the ETF vehicle.
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Source: nasdaq.com
Aptus Launches Defined Risk ETF to Help Investors Generate Income
August 8, 2018--Aptus Capital Advisors rolled out its third exchange traded fund, an actively managed style that incorporates a combination of a laddered bond portfolio strategy with options on U.S. equities to help investors meet their income needs.
Aptus launched the actively managed Aptus Defined Risk ETF (Cboe: DRSK), which has a 0.78% expense ratio.
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Source: nasdaq.com
BNY Mellon DR Index Monthly Performance-July 2018
August 8, 2018--The BNY Mellon DR Index Monthly Performance for July 2018 report is now available.
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Source: BNY Mellon
