Americas ETP News
If your looking for specific news, using the search function will narrow down the results
First Trust Launches First Trust SMID Cap Rising Dividend Achievers ETF
November 2, 2017--An index-based ETF that provides exposure to small and mid-cap companies with a history of raising their dividends and the potential for continued dividend growth
First Trust Advisors L.P. ("First Trust"), a leading exchange-traded fund ("ETF") provider and asset manager, announced today that it has launched a new index-based ETF, the First Trust SMID Cap Rising Dividend Achievers ETF (Nasdaq: SDVY) (the "fund").
view more
Source: First Trust Advisors L.P
The Forum at ETF Research Center-November 2017 Sector SPDR Analyzer
November 2, 2017--The ETF Analyzer, Sector SPDR Edition for November 2017 is ready for download. This monthly publication has succinct one-page reports on each of the 10 Select Sector SPDR ETFs in three easy-to-read sections:
Investment Summary, Fundamentals, and Composition. It helps investors:
Evaluate the funds based on investment merit using fundamental data and analysis
Compare the Sector SPDRs with ease on a variety of forward-looking valuation metrics/
view
Source: AltaVista Research
Vanguard sees inflows of nearly $30bn in US last month
November 2, 2017--Vanguard, the passive investment juggernaut, attracted nearly $30bn of investor money in the US alone last month, lifting its year-to-date influx in the US to over $300bn and matching last year's record-shattering inflows with two months to spare.
view more
Source: FT.com
Guggenheim faces allegations of self-dealing
November 2, 2017--An FT investigation reveals that the firm's own compliance team raised concerns about favouritism
Top executives at Guggenheim Partners carried out a series of deals with companies close to the Wall Street firm's leadership that have triggered concerns over possible favouritism and self-dealing from its own internal compliance, auditing and investment teams, a Financial Times investigation has found.
view more
New Prime Unicorn Index Tracks Private Companies on the Road to IPO view more Cboe Welcomes New Aptus Fund to ETF Marketplace view more With Two Months to Go, U.S. Faces 'Mad Dash' to Adjust to MiFID
A shock wave is about to emanate from Brussels, the capital of the 28-nation European Union. view more CFTC.gov Swaps Report Update Pacer ETFs Expands Relationship with S&P Dow Jones Indices The "Pacer Trendpilot 750 ETF" (PTLC) will be renamed the "Pacer Trendpilot US Large Cap ETF" and the "Pacer Trendpilot 450 ETF" (PTMC) will be known as the "Pacer Trendpilot US Mid Cap ETF." view more As new money rushes into ETFs, a price war breaks out among managers view more
Source: FT.com
November 1, 2017--Index uses Lagniappe Labs' proprietary valuation and pricing data to track top-tier, private companies with Unicorn or near-Unicorn status
Lagniappe Labs has launched a new. equally-weighted price return index that tracks the performance of some of the most notable privately-funded companies based in the U.S. In partnership with Prime Indexes, Lagniappe Labs created the Prime Unicorn Index as a tool to benchmark the aggregate performance of private companies who have achieved or are approaching the $1 billion valuation level.
Source: Prime Indexes
November 1, 2017--Cboe Global Markets, Inc. (Cboe: CBOE | NASDAQ: CBOE), one of the world's largest
exchange holding companies' today welcomed a new Aptus fund to the Cboe ETF Marketplace.
The Aptus Fortified Value ETF (Cboe: FTVA) seeks to track the performance, before fees and expenses, of the Aptus Fortified Value Index ("Index"). The Index is a rules-based, equal-weighted index that is designed to gain exposure to 50 of the most undervalued U.S.-listed common stocks and real estate investment trusts ("REITs"), while hedging against significant U.S.
equity market declines when the market is overvalued with a "tail hedge" of long put options on a security that tracks the broader U.S. equity market.
Source: Cboe Global Markets
November 1, 2017--A quarter of U.S. asset managers say MiFID won't apply to them
U.S., U.K. regulators will give leeway on non-complying firms
For thousands of brokers, traders and money managers based in the U.S., time is running out.
Source: Bloomberg
November 1, 2017--CFTC's Weekly Swaps Report has been updated, and is now available.
view updates
Source: CFTC.gov
November 1, 2017--The fast-growing ETF provider changes benchmark indices in two popular funds
Pacer ETFs announces an expansion of their relationship with S&P Dow Jones Indices with a change in benchmark equity indices beginning November 1, 2017.
Pacer's large and mid cap TrendpilotTM ETFs and their underlying indices will now track indices calculated by S&P Dow Jones Indices, the world's largest provider of index-based concepts, data and research.
Source: Pacer Financial
November 1, 2017--U.S.-based exchange-traded funds have $3.2 trillion of assets, an increase of 11 percent this year.
The biggest worry for the industry is a continuing price war that is threatening profits. Talk of industry consolidation among the 70 or so providers is already in the air.
Source: CNBC.com
