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Colombia Prepares to Meet Development Challenges
Enhancing Sustainability in the Fiscal Framework
May 15, 2014--Challenge
Colombia's considerable reliance on oil revenues, relatively high poverty and inequality levels, high exposure to natural disaster risk, and a relatively complex political economy represent major challenges to making the Government's fiscal framework sustainable. At the same time, sustaining growth in the longer run needs smart investments in infrastructure, health, and education without risking fiscal and debt sustainability.
Solution
The Fiscal Sustainability and Growth Resilient Development Policy Loan series supported a strong program of reforms to strengthen Colombia’s fiscal position. Reforms included the implementation of a Fiscal Rule Law in 2011 that defines an adjustment path for the structural budget deficit.
view moreP>view the Fiscal policy in Colombia : tapping its potential for a more equitable society
Source: World Bank
Invesco PowerShares to Launch Multi-Strategy Alternative ETF
May 14, 2014--Invesco PowerShares Capital Management LLC, a leading global provider of exchange-traded funds (ETFs), today announced the anticipated listing of the PowerShares Multi-Strategy Alternative Portfolio (LALT) on May 29, 2014 on the NASDAQ Stock Market, LLC. LALT is an alternative ETF designed to help investors achieve lower portfolio volatility and enhance risk-adjusted returns.
"One of the primary goals for investors that use alternative strategies is to minimize exposure to equity and bond markets, and to achieve better risk-adjusted returns compared to portfolios consisting only of traditional asset classes," said Dan Draper
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Source:Invesco PowerShares Capital Management LLC
NYSE Arca-1 ETV Launch-Merk
May 14, 2014--NYSE Euronext is pleased to announce that on Friday, May 16, 2014, the following ETV will be listed on NYSE Arca and will begin trading as a new issue:
Security Name: Merk Gold Trust
CUSIP: 590055 10 9
Trading Symbol: OUNZ
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Source: NYSE Arca
BlackRock signals bond trading shake-up
May 14, 2014--BlackRock, the world's largest asset manager, is teaming up with electronic trading hub Tradeweb in a shake-up for US bond and derivatives markets, supported by Wall Street banks.
The alliance announced on Wednesday will focus on boosting trading...
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Source: FT.com
iShares Launches First Qatar & UAE Focused ETFs
May 14, 2014--The Middle East, the often ignored investment destination in the ETF world, finally has two single-country products focused on its equity markets.
iShares, the world's leading ETF provider, has recently launched two products that provide single country exposure to the Middle East.
The new funds-iShares MSCI Qatar Capped ETF-(QAT) and iShares MSCI UAE Capped ETF (UAE)-hit the market on May 1, 2014, and are solely dedicated to the securities focused on these nations.
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Source: Nasdaq
Buy Side Takes Issue With Maker-Taker Pricing
May 14, 2014--Maker-taker pricing is a sore point for some buy-side market participants, who believe it distorts market behavior to their detriment. The system, by which liquidity providers are paid a rebate by exchange and liquidity takers pay a fee, has historically been justified by exchanges as a way to attract more liquidity, but in the era of high-frequency trading that argument has come under scrutiny.
"There’s a big difference between liquidity and volume: if you start flat and go home flat, you’re not really providing liquidity," said Joseph Scafidi, director of trading at Brandes Investment Partners, which manages $27 billion. "It’s recently been announced that the SEC may take a look at some pilot programs for removing maker-taker. I am in strong support of such a program. There are a lot of incentives with the maker-taker model that many guys on my side of the fence have issues with."
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Source: Markets Media
NASDAQ to Begin Listing First Trust ETF on Thursday, May 15, 2014
May 13, 2014--Effective Thursday, May 15, 2014, The NASDAQ Stock Market(R)(NASDAQ(R)) will list one new ETF:
First Trust Managed Municipal ETF
The new ETF will be designated as NASDAQ Global MarketSM securities
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Source: NASDAQ OMX
Recon Capital launches white label ETF platform
Platform Includes Exclusive Distribution & Trading To Ensure Long Term Success
May 13, 2014--Recon Capital announced today, the immediate availability of its ETF Platform enabiling asset managers, hedge funds, and registered investment advisers (RIAs) to tap into the $1.7 trillion exchange traded fund industry with Recon Capital's comprehensive ETF infrastructure.
Recon's ETF Platform helps asset managers bring innovative investment solutions to the exchange traded fund and 1940 Act space. The Exchange Traded Platform focuses on providing better investment solutions in a liquid, transparent, and cost effective manner. Recon Capital launched it's first exchanged traded fund on the platform: the Recon Capital NASDAQ 100 Covered Call ETF (Nasdaq "QYLD") on December 12, 2013.
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Source: Recon Capital Partners
Potholes litter road to ETF investment by DC plans
May 12, 2014-With the very public launch of an ETF-only 401(k) plan option by Charles Schwab Corp., might some defined contribution plan executives finally be willing to give exchange-traded funds a try?
According to Steven Anderson, president of Schwab Retirement Plan Services Inc., for Charles Schwab in Cleveland, the company has already received commitments from several defined contribution plans to convert to all ETFs beginning in the fall, including a plan in excess of $100 million.
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Source: Pensions & Investments
iShares reassures advisers: 'We won’t compete with you'
May 12, 2014--BlackRock has been busy packaging its iShares exchange traded funds into asset allocation models, but iShares global chief Mark Wiedman says the firm is not looking to undermine a key distribution channel.
What we will not do is compete with you," Wiedman told an audience of third-party ETF strategists at its annual iShares Connect conference in New York last week.
Source: FT.com
