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AdvisorShares Weekly Market Update: Negative Yields Proliferate Europe
March 5, 2015--For the week of February 23-February 27
Negative Yields Proliferate Europe
Macro
Fed Chair Janet Yellen gave testimony on Capitol Hill last week that offered no surprises or news and probably to Chair Yellen's relief did not move equities at all and only moved
bonds slightly.
Barron's posited that equity markets no longer care about whether the Fed raises rates and while that may
be a stretch it is certain that a rate hike will not come from..
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Source: AdvisorShares
BlackRock Launches iShares Short Maturity Municipal Bond ETF
Seeks to maximize tax-free income through diversified exposure to short-term municipal bonds
March 5, 2015--
BlackRock, Inc. BLK announced today that its iShares Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) business, the world's largest manager of ETFs, has launched the iShares Short Maturity Municipal Bond ETF (bats:MEAR).
iShares Short Maturity Municipal Bond ETF is actively managed by BlackRock's municipal bond team with more than 25 years of investment experience and backed by a dedicated municipal credit research team.
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Source: BlackRock
Nuveen taking another crack at ETFs
March 5, 2015--Nuveen Investments is planning to launch active exchange traded funds, nearly 13 years after abandoning an earlier ETF foray.
In a filing last week, the firm proposed a suite of rollouts with broad investment mandates, covering domestic and foreign equities and fixed-income securities as well as currencies, futures contracts,...
U.S. mutual funds cut expenses by shifting billions to trusts
March 4, 2015--Mutual fund companies, including No. 2 Fidelity Investments, have slashed fees on their most popular funds by shifting billions of dollars into collective trusts not regulated by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
The growing shift to collective trusts could prove a weapon for actively managed mutual funds losing out to low cost passive investment products such as the exchange-traded funds offered by rivals such as Vanguard Group, the biggest mutual fund company. For investors, one drawback is less transparency about the risks and performances of their holdings.
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Source: Reuters
Bitcoin's golden moment: BIT gets FINRA approval
March 4, 2015-Online wallet and exchange services such as Coinbase have made it incredibly easy for the everyday investor and user of bitcoin to buy the currency.
But what if you want to buy and hold bitcoin as an investment? Or, what if you want to diversify your investment portfolio into this new asset class, but do not have the expertise or resources to securely procure and store bitcoin?
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Source: cnbc.com
DB-Synthetic Equity & Index Strategy-North America-US ETF Market Monthly Review-US ETP assets clearly crossed $2.0 trillion mark in February
March 4, 2015--Data in this report is as of Friday, February 27th
US ETP assets rose by $108.7bn
ETP assets in the US rose by $108.7bn to $2.066 trillion (YTD +4.4%) last month.
ETF AUM was 14.5% of the Mutual Fund AUM at the end of January vs.14.6% at the end of 2014, and 6.5% at the end of 2007.
Flows Review: Equity ETPs capture $17.4bn during February
US ETPs experienced inflows of $33.2bn during February (+1.7% of last month's AUM).
Equity, Fixed Income, and Commodity ETPs experienced inflows during last month of $17.4bn, $14.0bn and $1.5bn, respectively.
New Launch Calendar: Twenty two new products reached the market during February; two issuers made its debut
There were twenty one new ETFs and one ETN listed during the previous month; nineteen of these were listed in the NYSE Arca; two in the BATS, while the remaining one was listed in the NASDAQ. The new products offer exposure to Global Markets, EM, DM ex US, US, mid and small cap US equities, 2x leveraged exposure to US small-caps, US Real Estate sector, one new thematic fund focusing on US large-cap stocks with the highest Buyback ratio, global infrastructure companies, EM equities with a GDP weighted methodology, 2x leveraged long and short versions of gold miners funds with focus on broad and small market caps; a portfolio comprised of income producing floating rate securities, U.S. Treasury via futures contracts and options on futures weighted to achieve a negative 10Y average effective portfolio duration, and to coal futures contracts.
Turnover Review: Floor activity decreased by 28.6% in February
ETP turnover totaled $1.283 trillion last month, 28.6% (-$513.3bn) lower than the previous month figure of $1.796 trillion, and 8.0% below last year's monthly average of $1.395 trillion. Equity, Fixed Income and Commodity ETPs turnover decreased by $490.1bn (-30.6%), $6.4bn (-5.6%) and $8.3bn (-15.4%) during February, respectively. ETP trading made up 24.6% of all US cash equity trading in February, down from last year's peak of 30.0% in October, and still below its 3-year monthly average of 26.3%.
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Source: Deutsche Bank-Synthetic Equity & Index Strategy-North America
WisdomTree Launches Europe Hedged SmallCap Equity Fund (EUSC)
Industry's First ETF for European Small Cap Equity Exposure Without the Euro
March 4, 2015--WisdomTree (NASDAQ: WETF), an exchange-traded fund (“ETF”) and exchange-traded product (“ETP”) sponsor and asset manager, today announced the launch of the WisdomTree Europe Hedged SmallCap Equity Fund (EUSC) on the NYSE Arca.
EUSC seeks to provide exposure to small capitalization stocks within European equity markets while hedging exposure to the euro. The Fund has a net expense ratio of 0.58%.
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Source: WisdomTree
Bitcoin Swaps Exchange Enters Merger Agreement to Get Listed Publicly
March 3, 2015--Tera Group Inc, the operator of the US's first regulated Bitcoin derivative platform Tera Exchange,
recently signed a merger agreement with MGT Capital Investment; thereby adding a crucial step that should make the former a publicly listed company.
According to the available details, both the parties have currently agreed on some "contemplated" terms of the agreement which will reach its conclusion by March 16th, 2015.
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Source: newsbtc.com
Altavista-Sector SPDR Analyzer + Equal Sector Weight ETF-March 2015
March 3, 2015--The monthly update on each of the nine Select Sector SPDRs plus the ALPS Equal Sector Weight ETF is now available.
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Source: AltaVista Research
CBO-Federal Debt and the Statutory Limit, March 2015
March 3, 2015--The debt limit-commonly referred to as the debt ceiling-is the maximum amount of debt that the Department of the Treasury can issue to the public and to other federal agencies.
That amount is set by law and has been increased over the years in order to finance the government's operations. Currently, there is no statutory limit on the issuance of new federal debt because the Temporary Debt Limit Extension Act (Public Law 113-83), enacted in February 2014, suspended the debt ceiling through March 15, 2015.
What Is the Current Situation?
The Temporary Debt Limit Extension Act specifies that the amount of borrowing that occurs while the limit is suspended be added to the previous debt limit of $17.212 trillion. Therefore, on March 16, the limit will be reset to reflect cumulative borrowing through the period of suspension. The amount of outstanding debt subject to limit has now risen to around $18.1 trillion. That amount is about twice the outstanding debt subject to limit at the end of fiscal year 2007.
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Source: Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
