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RBS Floats Gold Trendpilot ETN Morgan Stanley US ETF Weekly Update 13-week flows were mostly positive among asset classes EM Equity ETFsposted meaningful net outflows ($7.4 bln) over the past 13 weeks; however, last week they were able to manage net inflows of $237 US-Listed ETFs: Estimated Largest Flows by Individual ETF After eight straight weeks of net outflows, the iSharesRussell 2000 Fund (IWM) bounced back IWM posted net inflows of $797 mln, the most of any ETF; YTD IWM has posted a 6.5% market return SPDR S&P 500 ETF (SPY) exhibited the largest net outflows last week; YTD SPY has also posted net outflows US-Listed ETFs: ETF Dollar Volume US Large-Cap accounts for 40% of weekly ETF volume, but only has 22% of market cap International Equity counts for only 16% of weekly ETF volume, but has 24% of market cap SPDR® files with the SEC SPDR® Series Trust files with the SEC Brazil may be heading for a subprime crisis IOSCO identifies benefits of organised platform derivatives trading view report- Report on Trading of OTC Derivatives Opening Statement, Meeting of the: Joint Advisory Committee on Emerging Regulatory Issues I also would like to thank the staff of the CFTC for all of their hard work planning this meeting, reviewing the circumstances surrounding May 6 and working with the Committee.
I want to recognize and thank my fellow CFTC Commissioners, Mike Dunn, Jill Sommers, Bart Chilton and Scott O’Malia. CFTC to Hold Open Meeting on Twelfth Series of Proposed Rules under the Dodd-Frank Act
Antidisruptive trading practices authority interpretive order;
Amendments to Commodity Pool Operator and Commodity Trading Advisor regulations;
Swap data recordkeeping and reporting requirements for pre-enactment and transition swaps; and
Requirements for processing, clearing and transfer of customer positions DB Index & ETF Research -- US ETF+ Monthly Directory : January 2011 ETPs To request a copy of the report CFTC.gov Commitments of Traders Reports Update Standard & Poor's Announces Changes In The S&P/TSX Canadian Indices
Company additions to and deletions from an S&P equity index do not in any way reflect an opinion on the investment merits of the company. ETF Securities USA files with the SEC PowerShares files with the SEC PowerShares files with the SEC Fidelity files with the SEC
February 22, 2011--RBS Securities, a subsidiary of Royal Bank of Scotland, has unveiled a new gold-based ETN, Index Universe reports. The RBS Gold Trendpilot ETN will be listed on the New York Stock Exchange’s Arca platform and track the performance of the RBS Gold Trendpilot Index
The vehicle defines the price of gold bullion as the spot price of physical gold, as measured by the afternoon gold-fixing price for delivery in London through a member of the London Bullion Market Association. The index strategy seeks to lessen the volatility of the price of gold bullion by tracking the T-Bill Rate if the price of gold bullion is on a downward trend.
February 22, 2011--Weekly Flows: $2.7 Billion Net Inflows
ETFsTraded $251 Billion Last Week
Launches: 2 New ETFs-Fidelity Expands Commission-Free ETF Program
PowerShares& Sector SPDRsReach Settlement
ProSharesAnnounces Share Splits
US-Listed ETFs: Estimated Flows by Market Segment
ETFs had net inflows of $2.7 blnlast week; second consecutive week of net inflows
Net inflows were led by US Small-& Micro-Cap ETFslast week ($982 mlnnet inflows)
ETF assets stand at more than $1 trillion, up 5% YTD
$34.9 billion of net inflows into ETFs over past 13 weeks (majority into US Equity ETFs)
ETF monthly $ volume has recently declined to 25% of listed trading volume (lowest % since May ’08)
February 22, 2011--SPDR® Index Shares Fund has filed a post-effective amendment, registration statement with the SEC for the SPDR S&P Emerging Markets Dividend ETF.
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February 22, 2011--SPDR® Series Trust has filed a post-effective amendment, registration statement with the SEC for Barclays Capital Emerging Markets Government Bond ETF.
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February 21, 2011--Brazil has been on a credit binge – over the past 5 years credit growth has run at 2.4 times nominal gross domestic product. This compares with 2, 1.6 and 1.2 times for Russia, India and China respectively.
Normally this isn’t a problem, as leverage is rising from a low level and the ratio of loans to GDP is “only” 46 per cent; this compares with private sector debt in the US at 165 per cent of GDP.
February 18, 2011--The Technical Committee of the International Organisation of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) has published a Report on Trading of OTC Derivatives. The report analyses the benefits, costs, and challenges associated with increasing exchange and electronic trading of over-the-counter (OTC) derivative products and contains recommendations to assist the transition of trading in standardised derivatives products from OTC venues onto exchanges and electronic trading platforms (organised platforms) while preserving the efficacy of those transactions for counterparties.
The Report was prepared by the Technical Committee’s Task Force on OTC Derivatives Regulation (Task Force), in response to a request from the Financial Stability Board to examine increasing exchange and electronic trading of OTC derivative products in response to the G-20 Leaders’ commitments on this issue and their stated objectives of improving transparency, mitigating systemic risk, and protecting against market abuse in the derivatives markets.
February 18, 2011--Good morning. I am pleased to join Chairman Schapiro in welcoming the members of the Joint CFTC-SEC Advisory Committee on Emerging Regulatory Issues to our fifth public meeting. This is the third time this week that Chairman Schapiro and I have shared a table. I had the honor of testifying alongside Chairman Schapiro before Congressional committees in both the House and Senate on implementation of the Dodd-Frank Act. We also are focused on strengthening our markets to prevent similar events as those that occurred on May 6 of last year.
I would like to thank Chairman Schapiro, her fellow Commissioners and the staff of the SEC for all they have done on the May 6 review as well as our strong collaboration with regard to the Dodd-Frank Act.
February 18, 2011-- The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) will hold a public meeting on Thursday, February 24, 2011, at 9:30 a.m. to consider the issuance of proposed rulemakings under the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act on the following topics:
Registration of intermediaries;
February 19, 2011--This document includes all US listed exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and exchange-traded vehicles (ETVs), plus a special section covering exchange-traded notes (ETNs). The directory is organized by asset class and asset-class-related sub sections. Within each sub section it has also been sorted. For Equity and Fixed Income ETPs it is sorted by country in alphabetical order and by AUM in descending order, and for the other ETP asset classes it is sorted by sub sector in alphabetical order and by AUM in descending order.
A number of key information per product has been included in order to enable the reader to get an overview in their respective area of interest. Among the key numeric information we include avg. daily turnover, assets under management, and cash flows (all in $US).
February 18, 2011--The current reports for the week of February 15, 2011 are now available.
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February 18, 2011--The shareholders of Avoca Resources Limited (ASX:AVO) and Anatolia Minerals Development Limited (TSX:ANO) have agreed to the Merger Implementation Deed whereby the two companies will be merged to form Alacer Gold Corp. (TSX:ASR). Shareholders of Avoca will receive 0.4453 shares of the new Alacer Gold for each share held and Anatolia shareholders will receive Alacer Gold on a 1-for-1 basis.
The relative weight of Alacer Gold (formerly Anatolia) will increase in the S&P/TSX Composite and Capped Composite, the S&P/TSX Equity and Capped Equity, the S&P/TSX Completion and Equity Completion, the S&P/TSX SmallCap and Equity SmallCap, the S&P/TSX Global Mining and Global Gold and the S&P/TSX Capped Materials indices to reflect the issuance of Alacer Gold shares as part of the transaction, which will become effective after the close of Tuesday, February 22, 2011.
February 18, 2011--ETF Securities has filed a pre-effective amendment No. 4
to Form S-1 for the ETFS Collateralized Commodities Trust.
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February 18, 2011--PowerShares has filed a post-effective amendment, registration statement with the SEC for PowerShares Convertible Portfolio.
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February 18, 2011--PowerShares has filed a post-effective amendment, registration statement with the SEC for PowerShares Financial Corporate Bond
PowerShares Industrial Corporate Bond Portfolio
PowerShares Utilities Corporate Bond
February 18, 2011--Fidelity has filed a post-effective amendment, registration statement with the SEC for Fidelity Nasdaq Composite Index Tracking Stock.
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