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Minutes of the Federal Open Market Committee, January 31-February 1, 2017
February 22, 2017--The Federal Reserve Board and the Federal Open Market Committee on Wednesday released the attached minutes of the Committee meeting held on January 31-February 1, 2017.
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Source: federalreserve.gov
WealthBar First Robo-advisor in Canadian ETF Association
February 22, 2017-Financial technology leader joins CETFA to help educate Canadians about ETFs
Pioneering online portfolio management platform, WealthBar, has joined the Canadian ETF Association (CETFA). This marks the first time a robo-advisor has joined the organization, marking a significant leap into the future for the investment community.
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Source: WealthBar
Three Key Trends Driving ETF Growth- FlexShares cites regulation, institutional investors and efficiency as key drivers
February 22, 2017--Rapid growth in ETF assets continued last year, bolstered by regulatory change, keen interest from institutional investors and the increasing use of ETFs within multi-asset class strategies, according to Shundrawn Thomas, who leads FlexShares(R) Exchange Traded Funds at Northern Trust Asset Management.
ETF assets rose 20 percent last year and an average of 19 percent a year over the past 10 years to $2.55 trillion as of December 31, 2016, according to Morningstar.
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Source: Lincoln Financial Group
ACSI Funds Offers Commission-Free Trading of the American Customer Satisfaction Core Alpha ETF Exclusively on Interactive Brokers
February 21, 2017--ACSI Funds ETF utilizes proprietary customer satisfaction data to drive performance
ACSI Funds, a data-driven asset manager, has opened up its flagship ETF, the American Customer Satisfaction Core Alpha ETF (Bats: ACSI), for commission-free trading through Interactive Brokers.
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Source: ACSI Funds
AdvisorShares-This Week in Active ETFs: This Week in Active ETFs: South Korea: A Great Wall of Opportunity
February 21, 2017--Weekly Market Review-Highlights of the Prior week of February 13 to February 17, 2017
A Little Bumpier but Higher!
Macro
Although there were a few more ups and downs last week, domestic markets moved strongly higher.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 1.73%, the S&P 500 added 1.49%,
the NASDAQ moved ahead 1.77% and the Russell 2000 lagged behind up 0.77%
The yield on the 10-year U.S. Treasury note moved up two basis points on the week to 2.42%, which seems rather docile given the 0.6% print for PPI last week and the same 0.6% for CPI.
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Source: AdvisorShares
ETF Prism Report: The Marriage of ETFs and Bitcoins
February 21, 2017--ETFs and Bitcoins are both amazing Fintech evolutions... and a marriage/merger has been proposed.
Three ETFs have been proposed:
Winkelvos: a grantor trust that uses their exchange to set price
Solidx: a similar ETF but includes insurance and less conflicted pricing source for index
Grayscale: will convert the current ETP into a open ended ETF structcture
Proposed ETF would track flowering marijuana market: regulatory filing
February 20, 2017--An investment company is making plans to launch what could be the first exchange-traded fund to profit on marijuana.
The Emerging AgroSphere ETF would give investors an opportunity to buy a group of companies making prescription drugs using cannabis extracts, selling hemp derivatives and other related stocks, fund backer ETF Managers Group LLC said in a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission last week.
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A Kansas federal judge upheld the Labor Department fiduciary rule on Friday, giving the measure its fourth court victory since November.
Source:.investmentnews.com
February 16, 2017--ETFs have long been a favorite vehicle for short sellers, not only because they are easy to borrow-market makers can always create more shares when demand is sufficient-but also because they allow investors to easily express a negative view on a particular asset class or sector without taking on single-stock risk.
But short interest in many ETFs has been declining for more than a year. The poster child for this trend is the S&P 500 SPDR (SPY), where short interest has declined by half, from 38% to 19% over the past 15 months. The decline seems to be particularly pronounced since the election.
Source: AltaVista Research
