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Impact Shares Secures Funding from Rockefeller Foundation
August 1, 2017--Philanthropic Organization Backs First Nonprofit ETF Platform's ESG Mission
-Impact Shares, the first and only nonprofit exchange-traded fund (ETF) platform, has secured a $300,000 grant from The Rockefeller Foundation to partner with other leading nonprofits to launch focused social issue investment products.
The funding from one of the nation's foremost philanthropies highlights the tremendous potential of Impact Shares in engaging retail investors in the impact investment movement. Impact Shares will be launching the first of its innovative ETFs in late 2017.
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Source: Impact Shares
Rockefeller Foundation Backs Nonprofit ETF Startup
August 1, 2017-- The Rockefeller Foundation is helping to finance a startup hoping to build exchange-traded funds for nonprofit organizations and direct the profits back to their causes, officials from the group said with a plan to announce the initiative later on Tuesday.
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Source: New York Times
BMO Canadian ETF Dashboard-as of July 31, 2017
July 31, 2017--Monthly Summary
International Equity, Financial Services Equity and Canadian Fixed Income Drive Growth in July
For the month of July, Canadian ETF industry assets under management stood at $130.5 billion, a decrease of $348 million, or -0.3%, over the previous month.
The decrease was driven by inflows of $386 million, and market movement of -$734 million.
The top three inflows categories were International Equity, Financial Services Equity and Canadian Fixed Income. BMO ETFs reported inflows of more than $905 million, led by ZEA, ZIC, ZSP, ZEB and ZWE.
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Source: BMO Financial Group
Advisors Lead Race To Bottom In Fund Expenses
July 31, 2017--Advisors gave a boost to active mutual funds in the first half of 2017-as long as the management came at a reasonable price.
According to the most recent Fund Distribution Intelligence report from Broadridge, the U.S. fund universe enjoyed $566 billion of net asset growth, a 5.5 percent increase.
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Source: fa-mag.com
Pacer ETFs Breaks Into Institutional Market Using Citi Indices
July 31, 2017--Pacer ETFs, a seven-time award winning1 passive rules-based ETF issuer, is pleased to announce their agreement with Citi to license Citi's proprietary indices for use in Pacer's exchange traded funds.
This agreement allows Pacer to combine its industry expertise in exchange traded funds with Citi's index expertise to offer new solutions in exchange traded funds for the institutional market.
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Source: Pacer
Redwood Asset Management Launches U.S.-Dollar ETF Units of the Redwood U.S. Preferred Share Fund
July 31, 2017--Redwood Asset Management Inc. ("Redwood") is pleased to announce the listing of U.S.-dollar-denominated ETF units ("Units") of the Redwood U.S. Preferred Share Fund (RPU, RPU.B and now RPU.U).
Redwood has completed the initial public offering of the Units, which will commence trading on the Aequitas NEO Exchange today under the ticker symbol RPU.U.
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Source: Redwood Asset Management Inc.
The Forum at ETF Research Center-Replacing Delisted SPDR ETFs
July 31, 2017--One of the frustrating aspects of ETF investing is seeing a fund you own liquidated. The biggest disadvantage when this happens is the forced sale may result in an unexpected tax bill for any capital gains.
But a second problem is that once you've got the cash from the sale or liquidation, you now have to decide how to redeploy those funds.
State Street recently announced the closure of 19 of its SPDR ETFs. One is a fixed income ETF and two are currency-hedged vehicles that simply held another SPDR ETF, but the remaining 16 are "plain vanilla" equity funds.
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Source: AltaVista Research
AdvisorShares Weekly Market Review-VIX Below 9?
July 31, 2017--Highlights of the Week Ending 7/28/2017
Macro
The broad equity market had something of a dispersion last week. The volatility was subdued as the S&P 500 fell two basis points after making a new high earlier in the week, the NASDAQ was down 0.21% and the Russell 2000 gave up 0.44%.
The dispersion came from the 1.15% lift for the Dow Jones Industrial Average which was attributable to a huge bump in earnings for industrial sector companies in the Average.
The GDP print for Q2 was of course strong at 2.6%, the revision to Q1 showed weakness and inflation as measured by the core personal consumption deflator was only up 1.5%.
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Source: AdvisorShares
ROBO Global Adds Seasoned Robotics & Automation Analyst to Team
July 30, 2017--ROBO Global, creator of the first benchmark index tracking the global robotics and automation market, welcomes the addition of experienced industrial, robotics and automation analyst Jeremie Capron, CFA, as Managing Partner and Director of Research.
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Source: ROBO Global (R)
CBOE Holdings Declares Increased Third-Quarter 2017 Dividend
July 28, 2017--Quarterly Cash Dividend Increased to $0.27
7th Consecutive Year CBOE Holdings Increased Dividend
CBOE Holdings, Inc. (BATS: CBOE| NASDAQ: CBOE) today announced its Board of Directors declared an increased quarterly cash dividend of $0.27 per share of common stock for the third quarter of 2017, representing an 8 percent increase compared with the prior quarter's dividend of $0.25 per share.
The third-quarter dividend is payable on September 15, 2017, to common stockholders of record as of September 1, 2017.
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Source: CBOE Holdings, Inc
