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Vanguard Announces Senior Leadership Changes
December 3, 2020--Vanguard today announced several senior leadership changes. Chris McIsaac, currently head of Vanguard's Planning and Development Division, has been named head of Vanguard's International business. After 33 years of dedicated service, Jim Norris, head of Vanguard's International business, will retire at the end of the year.
As part of this long-planned transition, Mr. McIsaac has partnered with Mr. Norris over the past year on the firm's international strategy, including sharpening the firm's focus on individual investors and the intermediaries who serve them, and developing Vanguard's global suite of mutual funds, ETFs, and advisory services. Mr. McIsaac will relocate to Vanguard's European headquarters in London during the month of December.
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Source: apnews.com
Flow Charts: Where the ETF Money Went in November 2020
December 3, 2020--November was a blockbuster month for money flooding into ETFs. Coinciding with the historic stock market rally, pro-cyclical plays were the biggest winners, with one notable exception: Emerging Market stocks.
Net ETF inflows totaled a record $83.6 billion in November, with the vast majority -$72.1 billion- coming from equity ETFs, and $12.3 billion from fixed income funds. (Commodity ETFs and other asset classes registered small outflows).
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Source: etfrc.com
S-Network MicroSectors Gold Miners Index to Provide Underlying Strategy for MicroSectors ETNs
December 3, 2020--S-Network, an Alerian company, is pleased to announce the launch of the S-Network MicroSectors Gold Miners Index (ticker: MINERS). The market cap-weighted index is designed to track the performance of the VanEck Vectors(R) Gold Miners ETF (GDX) and the VanEck Vectors(R) Junior Gold Miners ETF (GDXJ).
The index will function as the underlying strategy for leveraged and inverse leveraged exchange traded notes. These ETNs will be issued by the Bank of Montreal, trading under the symbols GDXU and GDXD.
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Source: Alerian
Ancestry bond deal sparks investor backlash over voting rights
December 3, 2020--Investors have warned that Private Equity-backed Ancestry.com's move to limit investors' voting rights in bond trading last week could erode the "cornerstone" of the corporate bond market.
The group has added a clause limiting investors' voting rights to 20% in a legal document supporting the $ 1.2 billion financing that is part of Blackston's acquisition of the group.
Ancestry's provisions have overturned a long-standing principle known as "one bond, one vote" that gives investors proportional voting rights.
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Source: californianewstimes.com
IMF Staff Country Report-Brazil: 2020 Article IV Consultation-Press Release; Staff Report; and Statement by the Executive Director for Brazil
December 2, 2020--Summary:
The COVID-19 pandemic has worsened Brazil's longstanding vulnerabilities of low potential growth, high income inequality, and weak fiscal position. While the authorities mounted a rapid and effective response to support the economy and protect the poor and vulnerable, the virus outbreak is yet to be brought under control.
Outlook and Risks.
Real GDP is projected to contract by 5.8 percent in 2020 followed by a partial recovery to 2.8 percent in 2021.
With weak domestic demand, inflation is likely to end 2020 substantially below target. Debt is projected to jump to 100 percent of GDP, due to a 10.6 percentage point deterioration in the primary deficit in 2020, and continue to rise over the next five years. The high level of debt exposes Brazil to confidence shocks. Securing congressional passage of structural reforms to raise potential growth remains challenging.
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Source: IMF
World Bank-Managing Fiscal Risk in Colombia
December 2, 2020--A new methodology improves risk analysis and paves the way for infrastructure financing through public-private-partnership programs
Colombia has made transportation infrastructure a priority, investing US$24 billion to create a nationwide toll road network.
The Colombian government has partnered with the World Bank's Government Debt and Risk Management (GDRM) Program for developing a new methodology to better manage the fiscal risks of infrastructure.
The new methodology will improve the mitigation of contingent liabilities for infrastructure projects.
On November 13, 2020, the Colombian government published the "Valuation Methodology For Contingent Liabilities in Infrastructure Projects: The Colombian Case" (English version) -a new methodology to improve the statistical approach and models used in measuring risks for infrastructure contracts. Although intended for all contracts, this new methodology will be especially critical for Colombia's transportation projects.
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Source: World Bank
Beige Book-December 2, 2020
December 2, 2020--Overall Economic Activity
Most Federal Reserve Districts have characterized economic expansion as modest or moderate since the prior Beige Book period. However, four Districts described little or no growth, and five narratives noted that activity remained below pre-pandemic levels for at least some sectors.
Moreover, Philadelphia and three of the four Midwestern Districts observed that activity began to slow in early November as COVID-19 cases surged. Reports tended to indicate higher-than-average growth of manufacturing, distribution and logistics, homebuilding, and existing home sales, although not without disruptions. Banking contacts in numerous Districts reported some deterioration of loan portfolios, particularly for commercial lending into the retail and leisure and hospitality sectors. An increase in delinquencies in 2021 is more widely anticipated. Most Districts reported that firms' outlooks remained positive; however, optimism has waned--many contacts cited concerns over the recent pandemic wave, mandated restrictions (recent and prospective), and the looming expiration dates for unemployment benefits and for moratoriums on evictions and foreclosures.
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Source: federalreserve.gov
Dimensional Fund Advisors Lists Emerging Core Equity Market ETF
December 2, 2020--New ETF offers broadly diversified, all cap core equity exposure to emerging markets with robust daily implementation.
New ETFs offer broadly diversified, all cap core equity exposure with robust daily implementation
Dimensional Fund Advisors, a global leader in systematic factor investing, has listed its third active transparent exchange-traded fund (ETF) and its first ETF that offers exposure to emerging markets stocks.
Dimensional Emerging Core Equity Market ETF (NYSE Arca: DFAE)
Net expense ratio: 0.35%
Listed: December 2, 2020
The ETF, listed on NYSE Arca, is designed to leverage the power of Dimensional's investment engine-a consistent investment philosophy combined with a value-added approach to implementation that the firm has been testing, refining, and advancing for nearly four decades.
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Source: us.dimensional.com
Congress Sets Stage for Exiling Chinese Stocks From U.S. Over Audit Dispute
December 2, 2020--The U.S. has long battled Beijing's resistance to overseas inspections of Chinese companies' audits
The House unanimously approved legislation on Wednesday that threatens a trading ban of shares of Chinese companies such as Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. over concerns that their audits aren't sufficiently regulated.
The bipartisan measure passed the Senate in May and could quickly become law with President Trump's signature. The fight over China's resistance to allowing overseas inspections of its companies' audits has lasted for years but reached a fever pitch during the Trump administration.
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Source: wsj.com
Invesco launches high-yield bond ETF
December 2, 2020--Invesco brought to the Nasdaq stock exchange an actively managed exchange-traded fund that buys below-investment-grade bonds.
The Invesco High Yield Bond Factor ETF follows a factor-based investing strategy and uses derivatives to boost returns and manage risk.
Source: Smartbrief
