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Dimensional Adds Three New US Equity ETFs to Growing Offering
February 24, 2022--Dimensional Fund Advisors, a global leader in systematic multifactor investing, expanded its exchange-traded funds (ETFs) offering with today's listing of three new US equity ETFs on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). The new ETFs offer broadly diversified exposure to US small cap value and US high profitability 1 equities, as well as US real estate markets.
"We continue to build out Dimensional's ETF suite, which not only offers the benefits of passive strategies-such as broad diversification, low turnover, and transparency-but also provides the advantages of active, flexible portfolio management to continually target higher expected returns over traditional indexes," said Co-CEO and Chief Investment Officer Gerard O’Reilly. "These areas of the market are core to our expertise, as Dimensional has been researching and managing small cap value, high profitability, and real estate strategies for decades."
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Source: Dimensional Fund Advisors
The weakness of average inflation targeting
February 22, 2022--Introducing average over time without defining what this means is counterproductive and current levels of inflation in the US will sooner or later expose this weakness in the Fed's new strategy.
In the 2020 revision of monetary policy strategy, the US Federal Reserve adjusted the pursuit of an inflation rate at 2 percent, to inflation that 'averages 2 percent over time'.
Many worry that using average inflation over time in order to decide on policy for the future is problematic.
The first and obvious issue is the length of the period across which policymakers average out inflation.
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Source: bruegel.org
WisdomTree Launches Battery Value Chain and Innovation Fund (WBAT)
February 17, 2022--Targeted investment strategy focusing on exposure to companies in energy storage solutions and the development of battery technologies
WisdomTree Investments, Inc. (NASDAQ: WETF), an exchange-traded fund ("ETF") and exchange-traded product ("ETP") sponsor and asset manager, announced today the launch of the WisdomTree Battery Value Chain and Innovation Fund (WBAT) on the CBOE.
WBAT seeks to track the price and yield performance, before fees and expenses, of the WisdomTree Battery Value Chain and Innovation Index (WTBAT), and has an expense ratio of 0.45%.
"As the world shifts towards renewable energy, due to environmental and technological drivers, we expect a growing demand for electric vehicles and the batteries central to their development," said Jeremy Schwartz, Global Chief Investment Officer at WisdomTree. "The WisdomTree Battery Value Chain and Innovation Fund (WBAT) was built for investors looking to gain exposure to battery technologies and the megatrend of energy transformation."
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Source: Source: WisdomTree Investments, Inc.
Minutes of the Federal Open Market Committee, January 25-26, 2022
February 16, 2022--The Federal Reserve Board and the Federal Open Market Committee on Wednesday released the attached minutes of the Committee meeting held on January 25-26, 2022.
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Source: federalreserve.gov
ETF Launches Are Already on Track to Top Last Year's Record Pace
February 14, 2022--50 funds launched this year, up from 38 at this point in 2021
Pent-up demand, rise in active strategies are driving growth
Issuance of new exchange-traded funds are piling up this year and threatening to overtake 2021's historic boom as firms bet big on continued growth.
According to Bloomberg data, 50 new funds have launched in 2022, compared with 38 at this point last year. There's also been an uptick in the total number of actively managed strategies this year to 33 from 27, reflecting the growing preference for ETFs over mutual funds, said EQM Capital Chief Executive Officer Jane Edmondson.
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Source: bloomberg.com
Median Inflation Gauge Offers Better Read on Price Trends
February 14, 2022--Using an alternative measure may help separate the signal from the noise.
Economists debating inflation in the United States are confronting a difficult challenge: stripping out volatile price changes to gauge underlying pressures.
The most common measure of underlying or "core" inflation, which excludes volatile food and energy prices, has been hard to read during the pandemic. The traditional measure came into wider use in the 1970s, when volatile energy prices caused inflation spikes.
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Source: IMF
US stocks fall from grace with ETF investors
February 14, 2022--Flows to US equity ETFs fell from 69% of the global total in December to just 11.2% in January.
The US stock market fell dramatically out of favour with exchange traded fund investors in January, mirroring a similar fall from grace for US fixed income markets.
In 2021, US equity funds accounted for 55 per cent of the $1.07tn that flowed into equity ETFs, a figure that rose to 69 per cent in December.
Yet in January this plummeted to just 11.2 per cent of the net $66.2bn that was pumped into the asset class.
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Source: ft.com
Harbor Capital Advisors Launches All-Weather Inflation Focus ETF
February 10, 2022--Harbor Capital Advisors, Inc. ("Harbor"), a premier multi-manager investment firm offering access to innovative and specialized expertise across a range of investment strategies and vehicles, today announced the launch of the Harbor All-Weather Inflation Focus ETF (HGER).
The fully transparent ETF will seek to track the performance of the Quantix Inflation Index (the "Index") before fees and expenses. The Index was developed by Quantix Commodities LP ("Quantix") and is owned by Quantix Commodities Indices, LLC.
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Source: Harbor
Amplify ETFs Announces the Amplify Emerging Market FinTech ETF (EMFQ)
February 10, 2022--AEMFQ replaces the Amplify International Online Retail ETF (XBUY)
Amplify ETFs announces its newly appointed fund, the Amplify Emerging Markets FinTech ETF (NYSE: EMFQ), an index-based ETF investing in emerging market and frontier market companies that derive significant revenue from financial technology (FinTech) and technology-enabled financial applications.
EMFQ seeks investment results that generally correspond to the price and yield of the EQM Emerging Markets FinTech Index. We believe fintech is thriving in emerging and frontier markets, disrupting traditional financial service and banking models. Across the financial services industry, FinTech innovations are directly addressing the needs of previously unbanked and underserved populations transitioning to consumer-driven economies.
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Source: Amplify ETFs
SEC Proposes to Enhance Private Fund Investor Protection
February 9, 2022-- The Securities and Exchange Commission today voted to propose new rules and amendments under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 (Advisers Act) to enhance the regulation of private fund advisers and to protect private fund investors by increasing transparency, competition, and efficiency in the $18-trillion marketplace.
"Private fund advisers, through the funds they manage, touch so much of our economy. Thus, it's worth asking whether we can promote more efficiency, competition, and transparency in this field," said SEC Chair Gary Gensler. "I support this proposal because, if adopted, it would help investors in private funds on the one hand, and companies raising capital from these funds on the other."
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Source: SEC.gov
