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Hudson River Trading to buy rival HFT firm Sun Trading
January 16, 2018--Hudson River Trading LLC has agreed to buy Sun Trading parent Sun Holdings LLC, it said on Tuesday, the latest takeover in a shrinking high frequency trading industry beset by low market volatility and rising costs.
The deal between the two closely held firms is expected to close in the first quarter, subject to regulatory approval. The terms were withheld.
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Source: Reuters
Nasdaq Launches passiveIQ(TM) for Investor Relations Professionals
January 16, 2018--First IR-specific solution to provide comprehensive passive index investment data
Nasdaq Corporate Solutions, a business of Nasdaq, Inc. (Nasdaq:NDAQ), today announced the launch of passiveIQ(TM), a new analytics tool designed to provide investor relations (IR) professionals with comprehensive and actionable insights into passive index investment data from mutual funds and ETFs. passiveIQ is available as a supplementary service to Nasdaq IR Insight(R).
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Source: Nasdaq.com
Amplify ETFs Delivers Blockchain-Based Exposure with the New Amplify Transformational Data Sharing ETF (NYSE Arca: BLOK)
January 16, 2018--Amplify ETFs announced today that the Amplify Transformational Data Sharing ETF (NYSE Arca: BLOK), an actively-managed ETF will begin trading on Wednesday, January 17, 2018.
BLOK invests in publicly-traded global companies leading the research, investment and revenue creation related to blockchain-based and other distributed ledger technologies.
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Source: Amplify ETFs
Nine banks accused of rigging Canadian rate benchmark
January 16, 2018--Nine large banks, including HSBC and several Canadian lenders, have been accused in a US lawsuit of conspiring to rig a Canadian rate benchmark to improve profits from derivatives trading, Reuters reports.
The complaint, filed by a Colorado pension fund last Friday, accused the banks of suppressing the Canadian Dealer Offered Rate (CDOR) from Aug. 9, 2007, to June 30, 2014, according to the report.
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Source: ejinsight.com
Reality Shares DIVCON Leaders Dividend ETF (LEAD) Celebrates Two Years of Trading
January 16, 2018--LEAD seeks to invest in companies most likely to grow their dividends, grew assets under management by more than 475 percent in 2017
The Reality Shares DIVCON Leaders Dividend ETF (NYSE Arca:LEAD), which identifies and seeks to invest in likely dividend growers, celebrates its second full year of trading with an 18.05 percent annualized return since inception.1
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Source: Nasdaq.com
Deutsche Asset Management lists its first UCITS ETFs on Mexican Stock Exchange
January 16, 2018--Deutsche Asset Management (Deutsche AM) has listed its first set of UCITS-compliant exchange-traded funds (ETFs) on the Mexican Stock Exchange.
The 21 ETFs complement the existing Deutsche AM index funds already available on the Mexican Stock Exchange, expanding the strategies available to local institutional investors and advisors.
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Source: ftseglobalmarkets.com
Evolve ETFs Completes Acquisition of the Sphere ETFs
January 15, 2018--As previously announced, Evolve Funds Group Inc. ("Evolve ETFs") has assumed management responsibilities for the Sphere ETFs, as approved by holders of units of the funds at special meetings on December 11, 2017.
The Sphere ETFs include:
Sphere FTSE Canada Sustainable Yield Index ETF (SHC.TO)
Sphere FTSE Europe Sustainable Yield Index ETF (SHE)
Sphere FTSE Emerging Markets Sustainable Yield Index ETF (SHZ.TO)
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Source: Evolve ETFs
IMF Working paper-Investment in Brazil: From Crisis to Recovery
January 12, 2017--Summary:
While Brazil's deep recession has been broad based, it has been marked by a particularly large fall in investment. Real investment fell by around 30 percent between the beginning of 2014 and the beginning of 2017.
This paper finds that a variety of factors contributed to the investment decline, including a deterioration in Brazil's medium-term growth prospects, rising real interest rates, falling terms of trade, rising uncertainty related to economic policy, rising levels of corporate leverage and lower cash flow. Some of the factors that have weighed on investment over recent years have begun to normalize providing some impetus for a recovery. However, still-high levels of corporate leverage and the prospect of continued uncertainty related to economic policy settings suggest a turnaround in investment is likely to be subdued.
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Source: IMF
Thomson Reuters-U.S. Fund-Flows Weekly Report: Equity Funds and Taxable Bond Funds Drive Weekly Net Inflows
January 12, 2018--Thomson Reuters Lipper's fund macro-groups (including both mutual funds and ETFs) grew their coffers by $21.4 billion for the fund-flows week ended Wednesday, January 10.
The lion's share of the net inflows went into equity funds (+$12.0 billion) and taxable bond funds (+$10.4 billion), while municipal bond funds received $1.1 billion.Money market funds were the only macro-group giving back net money for the week; they suffered net outflows of $2.2 billion.
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Source: Thomson Reuters
Solactive expands family of USD High Yield Corporates Indices
January 12, 2018-- Solactive expands family of USD High Yield Corporates Indices
Solactive is adding three new indices to its family of high yield corporate bond indices, which have been developed as the basis for three new Xtrackers ETFs issued this week and trading on the NYSE. The three indices are the Solactive USD High Yield Corporates Total Market 0-5 Year Index (SOLHYCST), the Solactive USD High Yield Corporates Total Market Low Beta Index (SOLHYCLB), and the Solactive USD High Yield Corporates Total Market High Beta Index (SOLHYCHB). Each index aims to offer exposure to different segments of the high yield corporate bond market denominated in USD.
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Source: Solactive AG
