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Blog-Historic Volatility Recently Dropped Below 1.7 for Eight Cboe Benchmark Indexes
November 2, 2017--In times of geopolitical uncertainties, many investors are searching for investments with low volatility and higher yields.
Several news stories have noted that stock indexes recently had low volatility. On October 18 the 20-trading-day historic volatility for the S&P 500 (SPX) Index dropped to 3.4, its lowest level since 1969 (source: Bloomberg). There now is concern that with higher price-earnings ratios, the volatility of stock indexes could spike in coming months.
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Source: Matt Moran, CBOE
Success Isn't Pre-Ordained For Biblical ETF
November 2, 2017--A biblical ETF is luring investors with a discount.
Give and you shall receive? That seems to be the idea at Inspire Investing which just launched its fourth biblically driven exchange traded fund with a reduced expense ratio, the Inspire 100 ETF. Inspire's three existing exchange traded funds, all launched this year, have racked up $107.2 million in assets between them.
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Source: Wall Street Journal
Ultumus-US ETF Summary-October 2017
November 2, 2017--At the end of October 2017 there were 2,079 ETFs domiciled in the US with assets of $3,233 Bn from 93 product issuers and 132 index providers
Assets increased by $100.2 Bn (or 3.2%) in October, with net inflows of $52.3 Bn
iShares saw the largest net inflows for the month with $18.5 Bn, followed by Vanguard with $13.2 Bn and SPDR with $8.3 Bn, while ProShares experienced the largest net outflows of $655 Mn
ETFs tracking S&P Dow Jones indices saw the largest net inflows for the month with $17.8 Bn, followed by FTSE Russell based indices with $9.3 Bn and Bloomberg with $7.2 Bn, while ICE based products experienced the largest net outflows of $1.9 Bn
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Source: ULTUMUS-Financial Data Management
First Trust Launches the First Trust Municipal High Income ETF
November 2, 2017--An ETF that is actively managed using a rigorous, disciplined approach and active credit analysis to provide the potential for tax-exempt income and long-term capital appreciation
First Trust Advisors L.P. ("First Trust") announced today that they have launched a new actively managed exchange-traded fund ("ETF"), the First Trust Municipal High Income ETF (Nasdaq: FMHI) (the "fund"). By investing primarily in municipal debt securities, the fund seeks to provide federally tax-exempt income with a secondary objective of long-term capital appreciation.
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Source: First Trust Advisors L.P
First Trust Launches First Trust SMID Cap Rising Dividend Achievers ETF
November 2, 2017--An index-based ETF that provides exposure to small and mid-cap companies with a history of raising their dividends and the potential for continued dividend growth
First Trust Advisors L.P. ("First Trust"), a leading exchange-traded fund ("ETF") provider and asset manager, announced today that it has launched a new index-based ETF, the First Trust SMID Cap Rising Dividend Achievers ETF (Nasdaq: SDVY) (the "fund").
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Source: First Trust Advisors L.P
The Forum at ETF Research Center-November 2017 Sector SPDR Analyzer
November 2, 2017--The ETF Analyzer, Sector SPDR Edition for November 2017 is ready for download. This monthly publication has succinct one-page reports on each of the 10 Select Sector SPDR ETFs in three easy-to-read sections:
Investment Summary, Fundamentals, and Composition. It helps investors:
Evaluate the funds based on investment merit using fundamental data and analysis
Compare the Sector SPDRs with ease on a variety of forward-looking valuation metrics/
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Source: AltaVista Research
Vanguard sees inflows of nearly $30bn in US last month
November 2, 2017--Vanguard, the passive investment juggernaut, attracted nearly $30bn of investor money in the US alone last month, lifting its year-to-date influx in the US to over $300bn and matching last year's record-shattering inflows with two months to spare.
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Source: FT.com
Guggenheim faces allegations of self-dealing
November 2, 2017--An FT investigation reveals that the firm's own compliance team raised concerns about favouritism
Top executives at Guggenheim Partners carried out a series of deals with companies close to the Wall Street firm's leadership that have triggered concerns over possible favouritism and self-dealing from its own internal compliance, auditing and investment teams, a Financial Times investigation has found.
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New Prime Unicorn Index Tracks Private Companies on the Road to IPO view more Cboe Welcomes New Aptus Fund to ETF Marketplace view more
Source: FT.com
November 1, 2017--Index uses Lagniappe Labs' proprietary valuation and pricing data to track top-tier, private companies with Unicorn or near-Unicorn status
Lagniappe Labs has launched a new. equally-weighted price return index that tracks the performance of some of the most notable privately-funded companies based in the U.S. In partnership with Prime Indexes, Lagniappe Labs created the Prime Unicorn Index as a tool to benchmark the aggregate performance of private companies who have achieved or are approaching the $1 billion valuation level.
Source: Prime Indexes
November 1, 2017--Cboe Global Markets, Inc. (Cboe: CBOE | NASDAQ: CBOE), one of the world's largest
exchange holding companies' today welcomed a new Aptus fund to the Cboe ETF Marketplace.
The Aptus Fortified Value ETF (Cboe: FTVA) seeks to track the performance, before fees and expenses, of the Aptus Fortified Value Index ("Index"). The Index is a rules-based, equal-weighted index that is designed to gain exposure to 50 of the most undervalued U.S.-listed common stocks and real estate investment trusts ("REITs"), while hedging against significant U.S.
equity market declines when the market is overvalued with a "tail hedge" of long put options on a security that tracks the broader U.S. equity market.
Source: Cboe Global Markets
