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AdvisorShares This Week in Active ETFs-Don't Fall for the Fallacy of Explanation
April 24, 2017--Weekly Market Review-For the week of April 17 to April 21, 2017
Macro
If you've read anything from Nassim Taleb, you may recall his
comments on the fallacy of explanations. We all like to have things, especially bad things, be explainable, it makes us feel better.
This relates to capital markets because market followers offer explanations for every movement the market makes when
in reality there is often no explanation, the market did what it
did (good or bad) for no reason at all. No explanation likely pertains to last week, which saw gains across the board for domestic equities with the Dow gaining 0.48%, the S&P 500 adding 0.86%, the NASDAQ moved ahead by 1.82% and
encouragingly, the Russell 2000 jumped 2.58%.
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Source: AdvisorShares
ETF Prism Report: Embracing Transparency
April 21, 2017--One of the greatest benefits of ETFs is transparency.
However the fact that all investors can see the underlying holdings is often taken for granted. Many investors trust this transparency so much that they assume they don’t need to look "under the hood".
Our research has uncovered:
Small cap ETFs that aren’t very focused on small caps.
Stocks that somehow are included in large, mid and small cap ETFs from one issuer.
An inherent Value Factor bias in one issuers' Core ETFs.
Concerns with blending different index families.
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Source: torosoam.com
Trading firm Virtu Financial to buy KCG for about $1.4 billion
April 20, 2017--Virtu Financial Inc (VIRT.O) said it would buy rival KCG Holdings Inc (KCG.N) in a $1.4 billion deal that brings together two major U.S. electronic trading and market-making firms.
The deal comes at a difficult time for high-frequency trading as low volatility squeezes the profits it can make from rapid-fire trades.
Virtu's offer of $20 per share represents a 12.7 percent premium to KCG's Wednesday close.
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Source: Reuters
ETF Industry Exposure & Financial Services ETF (TETF) Launches April 20th, Providing Access to Full Range of Companies Driving ETF Industry Growth
April 20, 2017--Fund tracks the Toroso ETF Industry Index, a new benchmark for this innovative, disruptive space; built by ETF veterans
The ETF Industry Exposure & Financial Services ETF (NYSE Arca: TETF), will begin trading today, April 20, 2017, providing investors with a single point of access to the companies driving and participating in the growth of the Exchange Traded Funds industry.
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Source: Toroso Investments(R)
Fidelity predicts wave of consolidation among asset managers
April 19, 2017--Popularity of passive vehicles is putting pressure on investment groups' margins.
The recent batch of big mergers in the asset management industry is just the start of a wave of consolidation, according to the head of asset management at Fidelity.
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Source: FT.com
S-Network launches ESG based IndexAmericas
April 18, 2017--In their latest collaboration with the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), S-Network Global Indexes, a firm that supports socially responsible investment publishing best-practice benchmark indexes in collaboration with Thomson Reuters, has created the IDB-IIC Latin America Corporate Sustainability Index (IndexAmericas).
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Source: alphaq.world
CME Patent Sees Derivatives Opportunity in Bitcoin Mining
April 18, 2017--Derivatives giant CME Group is looking to patent a way for bitcoin miners to hedge against operational risks.
As detailed in a patent application published last week by the US Patent and Trademark Office, the proposed system would receive data from the bitcoin network as a means of keeping contracts up to date-monitoring metrics like network difficulty and price.
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Source: coindesk.com
Support builds for watered-down version of Glass-Steagall law
April 18, 2017--Policymakers and bankers weigh compromise modelled on UK's ringfencing rules.
Support is emerging for a watered-down version of Glass-Steagall legislation following renewed declarations of interest from the White House in a new version of tough 1930s rules that would break up the big US banks.
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Source: FT.com
VictoryShares Launches Dividend Accelerator ETF
April 18, 2017--New ETF Targets Companies Most Likely to Grow Dividends Consistently Over Time
Victory Capital today announced that it has launched the VictoryShares Dividend Accelerator ETF (VSDA), which began trading on the Nasdaq Stock Market(R) on April 18, 2017.
The new ETF seeks to provide investment results that track the performance of the Nasdaq Victory Dividend Accelerator Index (NQVDIV), which Victory Capital developed in partnership with Nasdaq.
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Source: Victory Capital
Growth Returns to Latin America and Counter-Cyclical Policies Increase
April 18, 2017--Nearly half of the countries followed counter-cyclical policies: spending in bad times and saving in good times
Market watchers expect that the region's average growth will turn positive this year
Yet fiscal accounts have deteriorated after six years of economic slowdown
In a positive development, today more than ever before, Latin American and Caribbean countries are pursuing counter-cyclical fiscal policies- spending more in bad times and saving in good times, according to a new World Bank semiannual report for the region.
view the Leaning Against the Wind: Fiscal Policy in Latin America and the Caribbean in a Historical Perspective report
Source: World Bank
