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Mackenzie Investments enhances suite of Smart Beta ETFs and mutual funds
September 7, 2016--Broadening its suite of smart beta ETFs and mutual funds, Mackenzie Financial Corporation (Mackenzie Investments) announced today the launch of three Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) and three new mutual fund products based on an award-winning investment process that offer investors enhanced diversification solutions.
The new ETFs and mutual funds give investors the potential to reduce risk concentration, and market bias, and improve risk-adjusted returns.
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Source: Mackenzie Investments
Amplify(R) ETFs Acquires YieldShares LLC
September 7, 2016--Shared Founder Christian Magoon Aligns Brands, Brings YieldShares High Income ETF (NYSEArca:YYY) to Amplify's Platform
Amplify ETFs has acquired YieldShares LLC, ETF Sponsor of the YieldShares High Income ETF (NYSEArca:YYY).
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Source: Amplify ETFs
CFTC.gov Swaps Report Update
September 7, 2016--CFTC's Weekly Swaps Report has been updated. and is now available.
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Source: CFTC.gov
Goldman Sachs Has Started Giving Away Its Most Valuable Software
September 7, 2016--The bank's new gambit: deploy its technology to win more business from clients
From the kitchen table in his Upper West Side brownstone, Michael Dubno recently scratched out from memory the blueprint for the modern Goldman Sachs Group Inc.
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Source: investmentnews.com
MainStay Hires Ken Bossen for ETFs With Hedge Fund Approach
September 6, 2016--He will work with portfolio-construction teams for IndexIQ
Bossen joins from State Street, reports to John Lloyd
New York Life Insurance Co.'s MainStay Investments hired Ken Bossen to help build the exchange-traded fund operation that seeks to mimic hedge fund strategies.
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Source: Bloomberg
AdvisorShares-This Week in Active ETFs: September is off the Table!
September 6, 2016--For the week of August 29-September 02
Macro-September is off the Table!That was the conclusion by some after the August jobs data which showed a not too hot, not too cold 151,000 jobs created
last month versus an expectation of 180,000.
This was the first report in several months that was not shockingly low or
shockingly high. The headline unemployment remained at 4.9%, which was also a slight miss.
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Source: AdvisorShares
BM&FBOVESPA becomes first exchange to join R3 distributed ledger consortium
September 6, 2016--São Paulo based financial exchange BM&FBOVESPA announced today it will be collaborating with over 60 of the world's largest financial institutions to develop ground-breaking commercial applications for the financial services industry that leverage the appropriate elements of distributed and shared ledger technology.
This initiative is part of the company's strategy of supporting transformative projects that focus on trading infrastructure enhancements, always seeking new alternatives that meet your clients' needs.
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Source: leaprate.com
U.S. regulators allow BlackRock funds to lend to one another
September 6, 2016--BlackRock Inc (BLK.N) portfolio managers will be allowed to borrow from their peers if they are pressed for money to cash out clients, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission officials said in a notice on Tuesday
Mutual funds and money-market funds offered by the world's largest asset manager could borrow up to a third of their assets in total-or up to 10 percent of assets without posting collateral-through BlackRock's "InterFund Program."
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Source: Reuters
Time to Worry: Stocks and Bonds Are Moving Together
September 6, 2016--Share prices and bond yields moved in the same direction in just 11 of the past 30 trading days, close to the lowest since the start of 2007
Wall Street traders and fund managers returning from the summer break are likely to focus on the obvious: a series of central-bank meetings in coming weeks and the imminent U.S. election.
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Source: Wall Street Journal
