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Invesco announces changes to PowerShares municipal bond ETF
March 13, 2017--Invesco PowerShares has announced an upcoming adjustment to the name, underlying index, investment objective and strategy for one of its US municipal bond ETFs.
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Source: etfstrategy.co.uk
AdvisorShares This Week in Active ETFs: The Best Week of the Year!
March 13, 2017--Weekly Market Review-Highlights of the Prior week of March 6 to March 10, 2017
Macro
The title for this week's update refers to the start of the NCAA basketball tournament with the First Four games Tuesday and Wednesday and then the full slates of games Thursday and
Friday. Enjoy the games!
Moving on to markets, by now you know the jobs data on Friday was very strong (although Barron's did try to rain on the parade with seasonal adjustments), showing 235,000 new jobs in February with the headline unemployment rate at 4.7%.
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Source: AdvisorShares
Morningstar makes bid to offer mutual funds for exclusive use of advisers
March 10, 2017--The research firm wants to launch sub-advised in-house funds with lower investor fees that financial planners can throw into managed account portfolios to pass on the savings to clients, according to an SEC filing
The March 6 filing explains that the move is designed to generate cost savings that will be passed down to the investor level by replacing the third-party mutual funds currently used in Morningstar Managed Portfolios.
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Source: investmentnews.com
ETFGI reports on the 27th anniversary of the listing of the first ETF the assets invested in ETFs/ETPs listed in Canada reached a new record of 90.61 billion US dollars
March 10, 2017--ETFGI, the leading independent research and consultancy firm on trends in the global ETF/ETP ecosystem, reported today, on the 27th anniversary of the listing of the first ETF, assets invested in ETFs/ETPs listed in Canada reached a new record of US$90.61 billion at the end February 2017 surpassing the prior record of US$88.84 billion set at the end of January 2017.
Twenty seven years ago on March 9th, 1990 the first ETF was listed in Canada on the Toronto Stock Exchange: the TIPs (Toronto 35 Index Participation Fund) tracking the TSX 35 index.
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Source: ETFGI
Infographic- Visualizing America's Changing Energy Mix
March 10, 2017--See how America's energy use has evolved from 1970 until today' and a projection for what it will look like in the future.
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Source: visualcapitalist.com
CFTC.gov Commitments of Traders Reports Update
March 10, 2017--The current reports for the week of March 7, 2017 are now available.
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Source: CFTC.gov
Retirement Fund Assets Grew 8% from 2014 to $19.1 Trillion in 2016
March 10, 2017--Across DB and DC plans, retirement assets total $19.1 trillion, according to data from a Federal Reserve report on DB and DC asset holdings and flows.
Total financial assets in both public and private DB pension plans were $12.4 billion in 2016, up 8% from $11.5 trillion in 2014 Total financial assets in DC plans were $6.7 trillion in 2016, up 10% from $6.1 trillion in 2014.
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Source:plansponsor.com
Bonfire of Wall St analysts burns some big names
March 10, 2017--Active fund managers are seeking to reduce costs, cutting sell-side research.
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Source: FIN24
SEC Rejects Winklevoss Bitcoin ETF Bid
March 10, 2017--The US Securities and Exchange Commission has denied a bid to list a bitcoin-tied exchange-traded fund (ETF), citing the risk of fraud and a lack of regulation among the world's bitcoin markets.
The decision caps a more than three-year quest by bitcoin investors Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, who first sought to list the bitcoin-tied product in mid-2013.
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Source: coindesk.com
BNY Mellon ADR Index Monthly Performance Update
March 9, 2017--The BNY Mellon ADR Index Monthly Performance as of February 28, 2017 is now available.
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Source: BNY Mellon
