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CBO-Updated Budget Projections: 2014 to 2024
April 14, 2014--As it usually does each spring, CBO has updated the baseline budget projections that it released earlier in the year.
CBO now estimates that if the current laws that govern federal taxes and spending do not change, the budget deficit in fiscal year 2014 will be $492 billion. Relative to the size of the economy, that deficit-at 2.8 percent of gross domestic product (GDP)-will be nearly a third less than the $680 billion shortfall in fiscal year 2013, which was equal to 4.1 percent of GDP. This will be the fifth consecutive year in which the deficit has declined as a share of GDP since peaking at 9.8 percent in 2009 (see the figure below).
view the CBO report-Updated Budget Projections: 2014 to 2024
Source: Source: Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
Blackrock's Former ETP Guru Dodd Kittsley to Join Deutsche Bank
Hire Marks a Win for Deutsche as It Looks to Increase Presence in U.S. Market
April 14, 2014--Dodd Kittsley, former global head of exchange-traded product research, is moving to Deutsche Bank AG.
Mr. Kittsley will join the German bank's Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management unit as managing director and head of exchange-traded product strategy in the Americas, according a spokeswoman for the firm.
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Source: Wall Street Journal
Six WisdomTree ETFs get CONSAR approval
April 14, 2014--According to Latin Asset Management estimates, Mexican Pension Managers (Afores) have around USD 12 billion invested
in cross-border ETFs listed on the Mexican Stock Exchange (BMV).
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Source: Fund Pro Latin America
TIAA-CREF to Buy Nuveen Investments in $6.25 Billion Deal
Acquisition Would Create Firm With $800 Billion Under Management
April 14, 2014--TIAA-CREF plans to buy rival Nuveen Investments for $6.25 billion including debt, a giant deal aimed at catapulting the firm into the big leagues of money management.
The deal, also the largest in the sector since the financial crisis, will vault the combined company into the 20 largest U.S. mutual-fund companies by assets, much closer to heavyweights BlackRock Inc., Vanguard Group and Fidelity Investments. The value of the deal includes debt.
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Source: Wall Street Journal
Bitcoin bound for 'guns and gold crowd'
April 13, 2014--Bitcoin is making its way from shadowy digital exchanges to the mainstream US retail fund market and even retirement accounts-much to the dismay of financial advisers.
SecondMarket, a New York-based trading platform that launched a Bitcoin fund for institutional and wealthy investors last year, intends to roll it out to less sophisticated investors in the fourth quarter.
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Source: FT.com
BlackRock fights to fix faltering active equities
April 13, 2014--BlackRock appears an indomitable force in the asset management industry, but the world's largest fund house has a chink in its armour that is proving difficult to fix.
The company, which last week laid out a succession plan for its chief executive Larry Fink,saw its asset base surpass $4tn for the first time last year,while its share price has risen by a fifth over the past 12 months.
But despite its recent successes, a closer look at the investment giant's 2013 results reveals a niggling weak spot: active equities.
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Source: FT.com
Big asset managers eye new trading venue
April 11, 2014--Several of the world's largest asset managers are discussing the creation of a joint equity trading venue, in an attempt to end the technological arms race sparked by high-frequency trading firms.
Fidelity, the Boston-based manager with $1.9tn under management, has sounded out rivals about routing their share trades through a central venue that would rival traditional stock exchanges and so-called "dark pools" of liquidity.
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Source: FT.com
CFTC.gov Commitments of Traders Reports Update
April 11, 2014--The current reports for the week of April 8, 2014 are now available.
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Source: CFTC.gov
Direxion Launches the First Pair Of 3x Leveraged ETFs Tracking the Price of Gold
New Funds Offer Exclusive Leveraged Long and Short Exposure to Gold Prices
April 10, 2014--Direxion, a leader in alternative investment solutions, announced today the launch of two new 3X exchange-traded funds (ETFs) to its existing lineup of leveraged funds.
The new ETFs, the Direxion Daily Gold Bull 3X Shares (GLDL) and the Direxion Daily Gold Bear 3X Shares (GLDS), are leveraged funds with the investment objective to seek 300 percent of the daily performance, or 300 percent of the inverse of the daily performance, (before fees and expenses) of Comex Gold Futures ('the benchmark').
The benchmark for the ETFs is the daily last sale price value occurring on or before 4 p.m. E.S.T. of a standard gold futures contract for the current active month for 100 troy ounces of gold. This is the first pair of leveraged ETFs to track the price of gold and gold futures.
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Source: Direxion
Despite Tighter External Conditions, Latin America and the Caribbean Hold Steady
Remittances and Foreign Direct Investment provide more reliable flows
Growth continues, albeit slow: 2.3% in 2014
Without productivity reforms the region could see social progress stall
April 9, 2014--As international investors shift their focus back to advanced economies, particularly the United States, as a result of monetary policy normalization, emerging economies face much tighter financial conditions.
Still, the impact of this reversal in capital flows is less significant for Latin America and the Caribbean thanks to its new reliance on more stable international flows.
According to the latest semiannual report by the World Bank's Office of the Chief Economist for the region, during the past decade, Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and remittances have come to represent a far larger share of net flows into the region than the more volatile non-FDI flows. The report "International Flows to Latin America: Rocking the Boat?" finds that these more stable flows, combined with the region's improved macroeconomic and financial policy frameworks, give much of Latin America a much better capacity to absorb external shocks.
view the World Bank report-International Flows to Latin America: Rocking the Boat?
Source: World Bank
