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GTS Closes Acquisition of Automated ETF & Wholesale OTC Market Making Businesses
May 22, 2019--GTS, a leading electronic market maker across global financial instruments, announced the completion today of its acquisition of the automated Exchange Traded Funds (ETF) and Wholesale OTC Market Making businesses of Cantor Fitzgerald ("Cantor").
Thirty Cantor employees have moved to GTS as full-time employees as part of the transition.
The ETF business is led by industry pioneer Reginald Browne along with his colleagues Eric Lichtenstein and Darren Taube. Overseeing the Wholesale OTC Market Making business is Joe Pleffner, Mike Strashnov and Menash Cohen. Cantor will continue to act as a counterparty in ETFs in partnership with GTS.
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Source: GTS
WBI Shares lists actively managed multi-asset ETF
May 22, 2019--WBI Shares is listing an actively-managed fund multi-asset fund that looks at the US economy to decide what to invest in. The WBI BullBear Trend Switch US 3000 Total Return ETF (WBIT) uses an in-house model to read a bunch of macro-economic data and index charts, including commodity prices, monetary policy, valuations, credit spreads and interest rate changes.
It then allocates to either US stocks or US fixed income securities depending on the model's reading of current market conditions. The fund will mostly access the equity and bond markets via ETFs, which may save the hazard and trouble of picking individual stocks and bonds.
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Source: etfstream.com
U.S. Digital Investment Management Market Monitor, Q2 2019-Aite Group estimates that client assets under management on robo-advice platforms will reach US$1.26 trillion by 2023.
May 22, 2019--Digital investment management is a disruptive trend that continues to evolve, and new offerings are announced often. But the hype around this industry trend has been a bit inflated, as Aite Group estimates that assets on digital investment management platforms was around US$257 billion at the end of 2018.
Aite Group estimates that client assets under management on robo-advice platforms will reach US$1.26 trillion by 2023.
Nevertheless, solid growth opportunities lie ahead for firms that can leverage their brand, market reach, and technical capabilities. U.S. Digital Investment Management Market Monitor, Q2 2019, Aite Group’s newest report, is a biannual report series that will be an outlet for Aite Group's monitoring of the digital investment space.
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Source: Aite Group
SEC sets dates for first phase of disputed exchange pricing plan
May 22, 2019--The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said it will begin the first phase of a plan aimed at evaluating how stock exchange fees and incentives affect how brokers trade, even as several exchanges sue the regulator in an attempt to kill the experiment.
Exchanges will have to start collecting data on how brokers route stock orders to the exchanges starting on July 1, through Dec. 31, according to a regulatory notice released late on Tuesday.
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Source: Reuters
Minutes of the Federal Open Market Committee, April 30-May 1, 2019
May 22, 2019--Balance Sheet Normalization
Participants resumed their discussion of issues related to balance sheet normalization with a focus on the long-run maturity composition of the System Open Market Account (SOMA) portfolio. The staff presented two illustrative scenarios as a way of highlighting a range of implications of different long-run target portfolio compositions.
In the first scenario, the maturity composition of the U.S. Treasury securities in the target portfolio was similar to that of the universe of currently outstanding U.S. Treasury securities (a "proportional" portfolio). In the second, the target portfolio contained only shorter-term securities with maturities of three years or less (a "shorter maturity" portfolio). The staff provided estimates of the capacity that the Committee would have under each scenario to provide economic stimulus through a maturity extension program (MEP).
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Source: federalreserve.gov
REVERSEinquiries, Volume 2, Issue 5-Structured and Market-linked Product News for Inquiring Minds
May 22, 2019--REVERSEinquiries is Mayer Brown's structured and market-linked products-focused newsletter. In this issue, we discuss:
Unsuitable Sales of Leveraged ETFs Draw FINRA's Ire; Text Messaging Violates Communications Rules
OCIE's Retail Investor Protection Focus
Department of Labor Fiduciary Rule Update
House Passes Resolutions on Financial Literacy and Support for Elderly
Revised Notice of Proposed Rule Change to FINRA Rule 5110
Refresher: Using Free Writing Prospectuses for Structured Notes Offerings
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Source: Mayer|Brown
IMF-Canada: Staff Concluding Statement of the 2019 Article IV Mission
May 21, 2019-- Context
1. Over the past five years, Canada has employed a judicious mix of policies to support inclusive growth and reduce vulnerabilities in the financial system. The use of fiscal space combined with accommodative monetary policy at the onset of the 2014 oil price shock was effective in overcoming the recession in 2015. The economy posted the strongest growth rate among G7 economies in 2017 and the unemployment rate fell to its lowest level in forty years.
The positive momentum in the economy carried through to 2018 and the government took the opportunity to push through several important reforms to boost productivity growth. A deal to overhaul NAFTA was signed, the Canada Infrastructure Bank opened for business, and tax allowances for business investment were expanded to help preserve Canada's tax competitiveness following the 2018 U.S. Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. With the policy rate kept low amid a booming housing market, macroprudential policy was tightened to slow the rise in household debt and to enhance the resilience of the financial system.
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Source: IMF
Horizons Introduces New Cannabis ETFs for Leveraged and Inverse Sector Exposure
May 21, 2019--Horizons ETFs Launches World's First Leveraged and Inverse Marijuana ETFs
New exchange traded funds ("ETFs") allows investors to access two-times (2x) and inverse (-1x) daily exposure to the Marijuana stocks
Horizons ETFs Management (Canada) Inc. ("Horizons ETFs") is pleased to announce the launch of the BetaPro Marijuana Companies 2x Daily Bull ETF ("HMJU") and the BetaPro Marijuana Companies Inverse ETF ("HMJI"). Units of the ETFs will begin trading Friday, May 24, 2019 on the Toronto Stock Exchange ("TSX") under the ticker symbols HMJU and HMJI, respectively.
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Source: newcannabisventures.com
SEC Delays Decision on VanEck/SolidX Filing in Latest Bitcoin ETF Setback
May 20, 2019--The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has again delayed a decision on a bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) proposal.
In a new document filed Monday, the SEC said it was instituting proceedings on whether to approve or disapprove a proposed rule change that would allow the VanEck SolidX Bitcoin Trust to issue and list its shares.
he regulator invited comments from the public, due 21 days from when the order is published in the Federal Register, and rebuttals to those comments, due 35 days after such publication.
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Source: coindesk.com
VanEck Launches New ETF MAAX, New "Guided Allocation" ETF Focused On Municipal Bond Exposure
May 17, 2019--MAAX is based on a proprietary model that uses momentum, duration and credit risk indicators to tactically allocate among selected VanEck Vectors(R) municipal bond ETFs.
VanEck today announced the launch of the VanEck Vectors(R) Municipal Allocation ETF (MAAX), the latest addition to the firm's suite of Guided Allocation funds.
MAAX is designed around a proprietary model that uses momentum, along with both duration and credit risk indicators, to tactically allocate among selected VanEck Vectors(R) Municipal Bond ETFs. VanEck's Municipal Bond ETF suite covers the full range of the risk/return spectrum, and currently includes five VanEck Vectors(R) Municipal Bond ETFs which had a combined total of approximately $5 billion in assets as of April 30, 2019.
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Source: VanEck
