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Pimco revamps BOND ETF, changing fund's name and managers
March 8, 2017--Pacific Investment Management Co (Pimco) is replacing the full slate of managers on its Total Return Active Exchange-Traded Fund (BOND.P) and changing its name, a spokeswoman for the fund management company said on Wednesday, the latest transformation for what was once the largest actively managed ETF.
The fund's new name will be the Pimco Active Bond ETF. Managers Scott Mather, Mark Kiesel and Mihir Worah are being replaced by David Braun, Jerome Schneider and Daniel Hyman.
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Source: Reuters
Barclays Launches iPath(R) Series B Bloomberg Natural Gas Subindex Total ReturnSM ETN
March 8, 2017--New iPath(R) Series B Bloomberg Natural Gas Subindex Total ReturnSM ETN (ticker: GAZB) provides investors with exposure to the underlying natural gas futures index
Barclays Bank PLC ("Barclays") announced today the launch of the iPath(R) Series B Bloomberg Natural Gas Subindex Total ReturnSM ETNs ("New ETNs") on the NYSE Arca exchange under the ticker symbol GAZB.
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Source: Barclays
Global X Funds Announces Launch of U.S. Infrastructure Development ETF (PAVE)
March 8, 2017--Global X Funds, the New York-based provider of exchange-traded funds (ETFs), today launched the Global X U.S. Infrastructure Development ETF (BATS: PAVE).
Designed to track the Indxx U.S. Infrastructure Development Index, the fund holds a basket of companies involved in the maintenance and development of infrastructure projects, including those involved in construction & engineering; the production of materials and composites; the transportation of those materials; and the distribution of heavy machinery.
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Source: Global X
'Fearless Girl' statue stares down bronze Wall Street bull
March 8, 2017--Move over bronze bull, there's a new statue drawing attention on Wall Street in time for International Women’s Day.
On Tuesday, New Yorkers and tourists in lower Manhattan found themselves staring at a bronze little girl, with hands on her hips, staring down her famed Bovine counterpart.
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Toroso ETF Prism Report: ETF Bubbles: Separating Fact From Fiction Long-term bubbles in corporate governance and environmental/social impact through proxy voting
view more Registered Investment Advisers Take Note: New SEC Custody Rule Guidance view more AdvisorShares This Week in Active ETFs: Floating Around the Unpredictability of Rates view more The Forum at ETF Research Center-February ETF Flows: Cautiously Risk-On
Among equity ETFs, overall short interest increased from 6.5% of AUM on January 31, 2017 to 6.8% on February 28, 2017. view more
Those accumulating deficits would drive debt held by the public from its already high level up to its highest percentage of gross domestic product (GDP) since shortly after World War II.
Source: Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
March 7, 2017-- With US markets at all-time highs, many investors wonder if the massive growth of ETFs are perpetuating a bubble.
Our quantitive research tools suggest ETFs are not currently creating a bubble in in broad based market indexes like the S&P 500. However, we do believe ETFs can cause two types of bubbles:
Short-term bubbles in sub-sectors or niches like REITs
Source: torosoam.com
March 7, 2017--Registered investment advisers should take note of recent pronouncements by the staff of the SEC's Division of Investment Management (the "Division") regarding Rule 206(4)-2 (the "Custody Rule") of the Investment Advisers Act of 1940.
The Division makes clear that many advisers may unwittingly have custody of client assets under the Custody Rule.
Source: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP
March 6, 2017--Weekly Market Review-For the week of February 27 to March 03, 2017
Bull Market Turns 8 This Week!
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President Trump's speech on Tuesday was interesting and generally well received. While no president can please
everyone, this speech was generally light on bluster and, inflammatory comments, sounding more presidential than at other recent public appearances.
While there was still spin and other liberties with the truth, markets reacted favorably to the speech, lifting more than one percent for the four major domestic benchmarks-including new big figures for
the Dow and S&P on Wednesday.
Source: AdvisorShares
March 6, 2017--ETF investors put some $43 billion in new money to work in February, according to our database tracking 1,546 ETFs with $2.7 trillion in AUM.
Investors expressed a preference for higher risk areas like emerging markets and small cap stocks, but also hedged their bets by increasing short positions pretty much across the board.
Source: AltaVista Research
