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Synthetic convertible ETF aims at Magnificent Seven bond problem
February 26, 2024--Despite their outsized influence, megacap US companies cannot be accessed by traditional convertible bond investor
The world's largest convertible bond manager has unveiled a "synthetic convertibles" exchange traded fund to spread the concept to companies that are so cash-rich they do not need to issue real bonds.
Last year saw a boom in convertibles - a type of bond that can be swapped for shares if a company's stock price hits a pre-agreed level-with issuance jumping 77 per cent to $48bn, according to LSEG.
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Source: ft.com
Global X ETFs hires CEO from Goldman Sachs AM after senior executive exodus
Ryan O' Connor joins
February 22, 2024--Global X ETFs has appointed Ryan O'Connor as its new chief executive officer, following a senior management exodus at the firm.
Effective from 8 April, O'Connor will be responsible for driving the firm's strategy, 'reinvigorating" its product suit and leading the team into a "new, growth-focused era".
Prior to joining Global X, he was global head of ETF product at Goldman Sachs Asset Management. He was originally hired by the firm in 2017 to build its US fund strategist model portfolio business. Global X ETFs CIO to exit-amid senior management exodus O'Connor also spent over a decade at State Street Global Advisors, where he led product and capital markets teams for the SPDR ETF franchise.
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Source: investmentweek.co.uk
SEC Charges Van Eck Associates for Failing to Disclose Influencer's Role in Connection with ETF Launch
February 16, 2024-The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that registered investment adviser Van Eck Associates Corporation has agreed to pay a $1.75 million civil penalty to settle charges that it failed to disclose a social media influencer's role in the launch of its new exchange-traded fund (ETF).
According to the SEC's order, in March 2021, Van Eck Associates launched the VanEck Social Sentiment ETF (NYSE:BUZZ) to track an index based on "positive insights" from social media and other data.
The provider of that index informed Van Eck Associates that it planned to retain a well-known and controversial social media influencer to promote the index in connection with the launch of the ETF. To incentivize the influencer's marketing and promotion efforts, the proposed licensing fee structure included a sliding scale linked to the size of the fund so, as the fund grew, the index provider would receive a greater percentage of the management fee the fund paid to Van Eck Associates. However, as the SEC's order finds, Van Eck Associates failed to disclose the influencer’s planned involvement and the sliding scale fee structure to the ETF’s board in connection with its approval of the fund launch and of the management fee.
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Source: SEC.gov
US investors in emerging markets switch to ETFs that exclude China
February 15, 2024--Portfolios are being adjusted as tensions and state intervention weigh on Chinese stocks
Emerging markets investors in the US are snapping up exchange traded funds with no exposure to China.
The net capital inflow into eight US-listed emerging markets ETFs that exclude China more than tripled to $5.3bn last year. 55 China-focused ETFs suffered combined net outflows of $802mn in 2023, compared with inflows of $7.5bn in the previous year.
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Source: ground.news
JPMorgan, State Street leave major investor climate group
January 15, 2024--The investment divisions of JPMorgan Chase and State Street are leaving a climate-friendly investment initiative, sparking cheers from Republicans.
A spokesperson for the group, Climate Action 100+, confirmed via email that "JP Morgan Asset Management and State Street Global Advisors have left the initiative."
The spokesperson also said BlackRock transferred its participation from its U.S. division to BlackRock International.
The changes come after the group last summer announced its next phase that would call on participants to "move from words to action" by "taking action to actively reduce greenhouse gas emissions across the value chain."
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Source: thehill.com
Morgan Stanley IM files to replicate Vanguard's multi-share class structure in ETF rivalry race
February 12, 2024--Fifth firm to file
Morgan Stanley Investment Management has applied for permission to house an ETF multi-share class structure, becoming the fifth asset manager to seek approval on the move.
In a filing for ETF Operational Relief with the Securities and Exchange Commission on January 29, Morgan Stanley IM said it was pursuing "multi-class structure" open-ended products, which would see the firm add an ETF share class to its existing mutual funds.
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Source: investmentweek.co.uk
IMF Working Paper-U.S. Inflation Expectations During the Pandemic
February 9, 2024--Summary:
This paper studies how and why inflation expectations have changed since the emergence of Covid-19. Using micro-level data from the University of Michigan Survey of Consumers, we show that the distribution of consumer expectations at one-year and five-ten year horizons has widened since the surge of inflation during 2021, along with the mean. Persistently high and heterogeneous expectations of consumers with less education and lower income are mainly responsible.
A simple model of adaptive learning is able to mimic the change in inflation expectations over time for different demographic groups.
The inflation expectations of low income and female consumers are consistent with using less complex forecasting models and are more backward-looking. A medium-scale DSGE model with adaptive learning, estimated during 1965-2022, has a time-varying solution that produces lower forecast errors for inflation than a variant with rational expectations. The estimated model interprets the surge of inflation in 2021 mainly as the result of a price markup shock, which is more persistent and requires a larger and more persistent monetary policy response than under rational expectations.
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Source: imf.org
CBO-How CBO Projects Inflation
February 9, 2024--Summary
The Congressional Budget Office projects consumer price inflation by making projections for individual types of goods and services and then aggregating them into forecasts for economywide consumer price inflation. Each projection accounts for variation across economic sectors in price sensitivity to cyclicality, persistence, and global and supply-side factors.
For instance, many services are more sensitive to cyclical fluctuations than many goods, and many goods are more sensitive to supply-side factors than many services. The approach aims to flexibly incorporate shocks to prices of specific goods and services into CBO's macroeconomic forecast and to produce disaggregated forecasts of prices for use in the agency's budgetary analyses.
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Source: CBO (Congressional Budget Office)
CBO-Monthly Budget Review: January 2024
February 8, 2024--The federal budget deficit totaled $531 billion in the first four months of fiscal year 2024, CBO estimates-$71 billion more than the deficit recorded during the same period last fiscal year.
Summary
The federal budget deficit totaled $531 billion in the first four months of fiscal year 2024, the Congressional Budget Office estimates.
That amount is $71 billion more than the deficit recorded during the same period last fiscal year: Although revenues this year were $112 billion (or 8 percent) higher, outlays rose more-by $183 billion (or 9 percent).
Outlays in the first four months of each year were reduced by shifts of certain payments that otherwise would have been due on October 1, which fell on a weekend. (Those payments were made in September 2022 and September 2023, respectively.) If not for those shifts, the deficit thus far would have been $604 billion, $80 billion more than the shortfall for the same period in fiscal year 2023.
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Source: CBO (Congressional Budget Office)
Treasury 30-Year Bond Sale Finds Buyers to Crown Good Refunding
February 8, 2024--Auction for $25 billion awarded at 4.36%, below pre-sale rate
Sale of 30-year bonds follows strong demand for 10-year notes
The US government sold $25 billion of 30-year bonds at a lower-than-anticipated yield, soothing investor nerves about demand for longer-dated debt.
Yields on US Treasuries briefly retreated from the day's highs after the solid auction result, though resumed climbing later in the trading day. The 30-year sale-the largest in more than two years- was the last of three Treasury note and bond auctions this week.
The new bonds found receptive buyers, even as investors remain uncertain on when exactly the Federal Reserve will start cutting interest rates this year.
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Source: bloomberg.com
