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House Passes Hultgren's Options Markets Stability Act
July 11, 2018--Will Lower Costs for Investors Managing Risk
The U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 5749, the Options Markets Stability Act.
The legislation authored by U.S. Rep. Randy Hultgren (IL-14) would facilitate liquidity in options markets by calling on bank regulators to provide targeted capital relief.
"This legislation is aimed at helping Illinois, the birthplace and home of listed options markets. Healthy options markets provide ample opportunity for investors to plan for the future and hedge risk. The market volatility seen in equity markets earlier this year exposed the extent to which existing rules are restricting liquidity when it is needed the most. Unfortunately, market-makers who provide liquidity for listed options are indirectly constrained by bank capital rules from fulfilling their role in maintaining price stability, leading to less liquidity and higher costs for investors who want to hedge risk," said Rep. Hultgren.
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Source: ultgren.house.gov
New Solactive USD China Corporate High Yield Bond Index
July 10, 2018--Solactive is pleased to announce that the Solactive USD China Corporate High Yield Bond Index will be used as an underlying for the latest KraneShares CCBS China Corporate High Yield Bond USD Index ETF (KCCB).
A main driver for this ETF has been the increasing demand of high yield by USD investors. Due to the growing size of bond issuance in China, and the continuous growth opportunities provided by this market, the fund is an interesting vehicle to gain exposure to high yielding assets with a low correlation to US and global markets.
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Source: Solactive AG
FTSE Russell appoints Latin America regional lead to enhance its presence
July 10, 2018--FTSE Russell today announced that Jesus Togno has joined the firm to lead business development and client relationships in Latin America.
Based in the firm's Mexico City office, Togno will focus on managing and growing relationships across the region for FTSE Russell indexes, data, market information and tools.
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Source: FTSE Russell
AdvisorShares Active ETF Market Share Update-Week Ending 7/6/2018
July 9, 2018--Assets in actively managed ETFs added $623 million last week to reach $58.73 billion in total net assets.
iShares led new AUM growth with $133 million followed by JP Morgan, which gained $124 million. There were no funds that launched or closed, maintaining the total of actively managed ETFs currently trading at 232.
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Source: AlphaBaskets
CFTC.gov Commitments of Traders Reports Update
July 9, 2018--The current reports for the week of July 6, 2018 are now available.
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Source: CFTC.gov
U.S. Fund-Flows Weekly Report:Funds Suffer Net Outflows for the Fourth Straight Week
July 6, 2018--Thomson Reuters Lipper's fund asset groups (including both mutual funds and ETFs) had net-negative flows of approximately $10.5 billion for the fund-flows week ended Tuesday, July 3. All the asset groups saw net money leave their coffers, with equity funds taking the biggest hit with net outflows of $8.3 billion. (This was the fifth straight weekly net outflows for the equity fund group.)
The week's outflows for taxable bond funds (-$1.8 billion) broke a string of three straight net-positive weekly flows, while municipal bond funds (-$189 million net) had a streak of eight straight weekly net inflows snapped. Money market funds had net-negative flows of $244 million for the week.
Market Overview
Both the S&P 500 Index (+0.50%) and the Dow Jones Industrial Average (+0.24%) recorded gains in the Independence Day-shortened week of trading.
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Source: Thomson Reuters
Horizons ETFs Lowers Management Fee, Changes Investment Objective/Ticker of its Robotics and A.I. ETF
July 5, 2018--Horizons ETFs Management (Canada) Inc. ("Horizons ETFs") is pleased to announce that its robotics and artificial intelligence ("A.I.") ETF-the Horizons Robotics and Automation Index ETF (the "ETF")-will have a new investment objective and ticker symbol, as well as a lower management fee.
Starting tomorrow, the ETF's investment objective will be to seek to replicate, to the extent possible, the performance of the Indxx Global Robotics & Artificial Intelligence Thematic Index (the "Index"), net of expenses.
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Source: Horizons ETFs Management (Canada) Inc.
Minutes of the Federal Open Market Committee, June 12-13, 2018
July 5, 2018--In conjunction with the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting held on June 12-13, 2018, meeting participants submitted their projections of the most likely outcomes for real gross domestic product (GDP) growth, the unemployment rate, and inflation for each year from 2018 to 2020 and over the longer run.1
Each participant's projections were based on information available at the time of the meeting, together with his or her assessment of appropriate monetary policy--including a path for the federal funds rate and its longer-run value--and assumptions about other factors likely to affect economic outcomes. The longer-run projections represent each participant's assessment of the value to which each variable would be expected to converge, over time, under appropriate monetary policy and in the absence of further shocks to the economy.
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Source: federalreserve.gov
CFTC.gov Swaps Report Update
July 5, 2018--CFTC's Weekly Swaps Report has been updated, and is now available.
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Source: CFTC.gov
Purpose Investments Inc. Announces Conversion of Purpose Global Financials Income Fund Into an Open-End Fund
July 4, 2018--Purpose Investments Inc. ("Purpose") is pleased to announce the conversion of Purpose Global Financials Income Fund (TSX:PFG.UN) (formerly, Australian Banc Income Fund) (TSX:AUI.UN) into an open-end fund with ETF units and mutual fund units. The Class A units of PFG.UN were delisted from the Toronto Stock Exchange at the close of business on July 3, 2018 and the ETF units were listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange today under the ticker symbol "PFG".
Unitholders of PFG.UN are not required to take any action in order to become unitholders of PFG. Each holder of Class A units of PFG.UN will automatically receive 1 ETF unit of PFG for each Class A unit of PFG.UN held and holders of non-trading Class F units of PFG.UN will automatically receive 1 Class F unit of Purpose Global Financials Income Fund for each Class F unit of PFG.UN held. New Class A units of the Fund will also be created for non-fee-based advisors.
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Source: Purpose Investments
