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Commodity Cycles, Inequality, and Poverty in Latin America
April 26, 2021--Summary:
Over the past decades, inequality has risen not just in advanced economies but also in many emerging market and developing economies, becoming one of the key global policy challenges. And throughout the 20th century, Latin America was associated with some of the world's highest levels of inequality. Yet something interesting happened in the first decade and a half of the 21st century.
Latin America was the only region in the World to have experienced significant declines in inequality in that period. Poverty also fell in Latin America, although this was replicated in other regions, and Latin America started from a relatively low base. Starting around 2014, however, and even before the COVID-19 pandemic hit, poverty and inequality gains had already slowed in Latin America and, in some cases, gone into reverse. And the COVID-19 shock, which is still playing out, is likely to dramatically worsen short-term poverty and inequality dynamics. Against this background, this departmental paper investigates the link between commodity prices, and poverty and inequality developments in Latin America.
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Source: IMF
AdvisorShares Launches BEDZ and EATZ, the First ETFs with Dedicated Exposure to Hotels and Restaurants
April 21, 2021--AdvisorShares Hotel ETF (BEDZ) and AdvisorShares Restaurant ETF (EATZ) actively invest in key service industries on the road to recovery and return to normalcy amid the global pandemic
AdvisorShares, a leading sponsor of actively managed exchange-traded funds (ETFs), today announced the launch of the AdvisorShares Hotel ETF (Ticker: BEDZ) and the AdvisorShares Restaurant ETF (Ticker: EATZ). They become the only U.S.-listed ETFs to provide dedicated exposure to their respective industries of focus.
BEDZ invests solely in the hotel industry and its related services, including hotels, resorts, cruise lines, and other travel-related services. EATZ invests solely in the restaurant and food service industry, including restaurants, bars, pubs, fast food, take out facilities and food catering services.
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Source: AdvisorShares
Three Ether ETFs begin trading on Toronto Stock Exchange
April 20, 2021--Three ether (ETH) exchange=traded funds (ETFs) began trading on the Toronto Stock Exchange on Tuesday.
The ETFs are by Canada-based asset managers: Purpose Investments,CI Global Asset Management,and Evolve Funds Group.
The three firms received the green light from the Ontario Securities Commission last week.
The move follows shortly after the regulator approved the world's first bitcoin ETFs by the three firms earlier this year.
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Source: theblockcrypto.com
Goldman Sachs Asset Management pumps up innovation ETF pipeline
April 20, 2021--The Future Consumer and Future Health Care funds will focus on areas such as ecommerce and genomics
Goldman Sachs Asset Management is doubling down on its effort to capture some of the buzz and assets chasing emerging technologies and innovative service businesses.
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Source: ft.com
The spread of the arbitrage economy
April 19, 2021--Troubles rise as companies exploit the opaque gaps between regulations
Deliveroo, Greensill, Coinbase, Archegos. Apart from their shared proclivity to dominate the headlines, these high and low flying outfits are an exceptionally disparate bunch.
Yet one thing they have in common is a dependence on regulatory arbitrage to attempt to extract value – successfully or otherwise- from pedestrian core businesses in which fancy technology plays a purely ancillary role.
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Source: FT.com
Robotics ETFs hit by a strong outflow in March
April 19, 2021--Exchange-traded funds focused on robotics have seen "massive" outflows in recent weeks as one of the hottest trends in the last six months could collapse.
Robotics and automation-themed ETFs recorded a $ 735 million inflow between September and February 2020, according to data from New York-based ETF manager GlobalX. The reversal is most noticeable.
However, the record $ 506 million of this money was withdrawn from the market in March alone, reducing assets by 8.5% to $ 5.4 billion.
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Source: eminetra.co.uk
U.S. Leveraged Loan Sales Set for Record Year, Could Beat Bonds
April 15, 2021--Borrowers like United Airlines, Michaels grew loans over bonds
Dividend-linked loan supply may also rise amid fierce demand
Junk-rated borrowers are shifting their sights toward U.S. leveraged loans, sometimes at the expense of high-yield bonds, putting sales of the floating-rate debt on course for a record year of issuance.
United Airlines Holdings Inc., Michaels Cos. and Triton Water Holdings Inc. all recently opted to boost the size of loan offerings, while cutting bond deals, as they marketed the debt to both sets of investors. The deal outcomes signal the full recovery of the leveraged loan market that lagged high-yield bonds through most of the pandemic, and strong demand for the floating-rate debt that offers a hedge in a rising rate environment.
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Source: bloomberg.com
ETFGI reports assets invested in ETFs and ETPs listed in United States reach a record US$5.91 at the end of Q1 2021
April 15, 2021--ETFGI, a leading independent research and consultancy firm covering trends in the global ETFs and ETPs ecosystem, reported today that assets invested in ETFs and ETPs listed in United States reach a record US$5.91 at the end of Q1 202. ETFs and ETPs listed in United States gathered a record US$98.26 billion in net inflows during March, bringing year-to-date net inflows to a record US$252.24 billion. Assets invested in the U.S.
ETFs and ETPs industry have increased by 3.3%, from US$5.72 trillion at the end of February, to US$5.91 trillion at the end of March, according to ETFGI's March 2021 US ETFs and ETPs industry landscape insights report, the monthly report which is part of an annual paid-for research subscription service. (All dollar values in USD unless otherwise noted.)
Highlights
Assets invested in ETFs and ETPs listed in United States reach a record of $5.91 trillion at the end Q1 2021.
ETFs and ETPs listed in U.S. gathered a record $98.26 Bn in net inflows in March beating the prior record of $96.74 set in February 2021
A record $252.24 Bn in net inflows at the end of Q1 beating the prior record of $133.58 in set in Q1 2017 and much higher than the $59.86 Bn gathered in Q1 2020.
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Source: ETFGI
BlackRock's Record-Breaking ESG Fund Looks Just Like a Big Tech ETF
Apri 14, 2021--The Carbon Transition fund's largest holdings are Apple, Microsoft, Amazon.com, Alphabet and Facebook.
As the biggest launch in the history of ETFs, it's a ringing endorsement of all things ESG. But beyond its billion-dollar debut, BlackRock Inc.'s new fund might feel awfully familiar to most investors.
The top holdings in the U.S. Carbon Transition Readiness ETF (ticker LCTU) -- which lured about $1.25 billion in its first day on Thursday-- turn out to be Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Amazon.com Inc., Alphabet Inc. and Facebook Inc.
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Source: bloomberg.com
Coinbase valued at $76bn in coming-of-age moment for cryptocurrency
April 14, 2021--Investors cheer direct listing of digital currency exchange though shares drift lower after debut
Stock market investors valued Coinbase at $75.9bn in its debut on Nasdaq on Wednesday, the first listing of a major cryptocurrency exchange and a moment of validation for the digital asset class some 12 years after the creation of bitcoin.
Shares drifted lower through the trading day- from an opening price of $381 to $328- but even at the close Coinbase had a market capitalisation of $65.4bn, rivalling that of the New York Stock Exchange's parent company, ICE, which is worth $67bn.
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Source: FT.com
