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'Active management is worse than a zero-sum game'
March 30, 2017--Tom Faust, chief executive of Eaton Vance, on robo-advice and 'custom beta'
Everyone was in high spirits at the retirement party for Jim Hawkes when he stepped down as chief executive of Eaton Vance after 11 years.
Just hours earlier, the Boston asset manager's stock had hit a record high, trading over $50 for the first time, and Mr Hawkes was jubilantly handing the reins to his long-time heir apparent, Tom Faust.
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Source: FT.com
Exchange Traded Concepts files with the SEC
March 30, 2017--Exchange Traded Concepts has filed a post-effective amendment, registration statement with the SEC for the WeatherStorm Forensic Accounting Long-Short ETF
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Source: SEC.gov
Bats Welcomes StrongVest as a New Issuer to the Bats ETF Marketplace
March 30, 2017--Bats, a CBOE Holdings, Inc. company, and a leading market for exchange-traded fund (ETF) trading globally, today welcomed StrongVest Global Advisers, LLC as a new issuer to the Bats ETF Marketplace.
The StrongVest CWA Income ETF (Bats: CWAI), the firm's first ETF, seeks to achieve its investment objective by investing its assets in a diversified portfolio of corporate bonds with varying maturities and equity securities.
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Source: CBOE Holdings, Inc
BlackRock Takes on Ivory Tower Over Stock-Ownership Research
March 29, 2017--Academics suggest asset managers can discourage competition
Novick says it's premature for lawmakers to act on findings.
The world's largest asset managers are muscling into an academic debate, attempting to rebut research into their market power before lawmakers latch onto it to support investing curbs.
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Source: Bloomberg
CFTC.gov Swaps Report Update
March 29, 2017--CFTC's Weekly Swaps Report has been updated, and is now available.
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Source: CFTC.gov
BlackRock turns to robotic stock pickers
March 28, 2017--The money manager will reposition some stock funds, adjust fees and streamline research as part of an overhaul of its stock-picking unit
BlackRock Inc. has started a shake-up of its stock picking business, relying more on robots rather than humans to make decisions on what to buy and sell.
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Source: Wall Street Journal
Horizons ETFs to Launch First Marijuana ETF
March 28, 2017--The Horizons Medical Marijuana Life Sciences ETF will begin trading on April 5, 2017
Horizons ETFs Management (Canada) Inc. ("Horizons ETFs") is pleased to announce that it has filed its final prospectus to launch the Horizons Medical Marijuana Life Sciences ETF ("HMMJ").
Units of the exchange traded fund ("ETF") have been conditionally approved for listing by the Toronto Stock Exchange ("TSX") and are slated to begin trading on April 5, 2017, under the ticker symbol HMMJ.
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Source: Horizons ETFs Management (Canada) Inc.
E*TRADE Study Reveals What Investors Worry About Most When Investing in ETFs
March 27, 2016--The biggest challenge among ETF investors is likely also the most fundamental: choosing which to purchase
Results highlight what is most likely to keep investors up at night when investing in exchange-traded funds (ETFs). The top three concerns are:...
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Source: E*TRADE
SEC denies a second application to list bitcoin product
March 27, 2017--The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Tuesday denied for the second time this month a request to bring to market a first-of-its-kind product tracking bitcoin, the digital currency.
The SEC announced in a filing its decision denying Intercontinental Exchange Inc's NYSE Arca exchange the ability to list and trade the SolidX Bitcoin Trust, an exchange-traded product (ETP) that would trade like a stock and track the digital asset's price.
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Source: Reuters
AdvisorShares This Week in Active ETFs: Newfleet Joins Our AlphaCall
March 27, 2017--Weekly Market Review-For the week of March 20 to March 24, 2017
Healthcare Fails, Equities Waiver (Sort of)Macro
The American Health Care Act of course failed on Friday when it was determined there would not be a sufficient vote count to pass the bill, so it was never brought to the House floor for an actual vote.
The bill was complex and the process is
complicated, and while this would appear create uncertainty around where the administration goes from here, markets
were essentially flat on Friday. For the week the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 1.49%, the S&P 500 was down 1.41%,
the NASDAQ gave up 1.19% and the Russell 2000 had a drop
of 2.62%.
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Source: AdvisorShares
