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Wealthsimple for Advisors partners with Forstrong
March 3, 2017--Wealthsimple for Advisors announced March 6 that it has formed a partnership with Forstrong Global Asset Management to enable financial advisors using its platform to invest their clients' assets in any of Forstrong's seven actively managed investment strategies.
Forstrong has managed globally balanced ETF portfolios since 2001. Through Wealthsimple for Advisors, advisors can invest client assets in Forstrong portfolios with no minimum account size and no trading fees.
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Source: insurance-journal.ca
Direxion Announces Reverse and Forward Share Splits of Fifteen ETFs
March 2, 2017--Direxion has announced it will execute reverse share splits for eight of its exchange-traded funds ("ETFs"), as well as forward share splits for another seven ETFs.
The total market value of the shares outstanding will not be affected as a result of these splits, except with respect to the redemption of fractional shares, as outlined below.
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Source: direxioninvestments.com
Merk Insights-Fake Risk, Fake Return?
March 2, 2017--With seemingly everyone from the blogosphere to the Tweeter-in-chief chiming in on fake news, have investors considered their risk/return profile may also be "fake"? When it comes to investing, who or what can we trust, is the market rigged, and why does it matter?
For eight years in a row now, an investment in the S&P 500 has yielded positive returns.1 In recent years, expressions like "investors buy the dips" and "low volatility" have become associated with this rally.
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Source: Merk Investments
Biblically Responsible ETFs Offer a New Twist on Value Investing
March 1, 2017--Fund excludes companies that donate to Planned Parenthood or support same-sex marriage
Northern Lights Distributors launching a trinity of funds
Securities selected based on 'alignment with biblical values'
"There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens. A time to create ETFs, and a time to redeem them.” -Not Ecclesiastes 3:1
Northern Lights Distributors LLC, an institutional brokerage firm based in Warren Buffett's hometown of Omaha, Nebraska, is offering a novel way to pursue...well, values investing.
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Source: Bloomberg
FIA has submitted comments urging the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to assess whether position limits are needed and to expand exemptions for hedging activities before setting any new federal position limits
March 1, 2017--The Securities and Exchange Commission today voted to adopt rule and form amendments to make it easier for investors and other market participants to find and access exhibits in registration statements and periodic reports that were originally provided in previous filings.
The amendments will require issuers to include a hyperlink to each exhibit in the filing’s exhibit index. Currently, someone seeking to retrieve and access an exhibit that has been incorporated by reference must review the exhibit index to determine the filing in which the exhibit is included, and then must search through the registrant's filings to locate the relevant filing.
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Source: SEC.gov
Thompson Hine Update: DOL Proposes Fiduciary Rule Delay-Employee Benefits & Investment Management Update
March 1, 2017--On March 2, 2017, the Department of Labor (DOL) is slated to publish a highly anticipated proposed rule that, once final, will delay by 60 days the applicability date of the DOL's final fiduciary rule and related prohibited transaction exemptions (collectively, the Final Rule).
The proposed rule's stated purpose is to allow the DOL to examine whether the Final Rule will adversely affect Americans' access to retirement information and financial advice.
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Source: Thompson Hine
Greenwich Associates-ETFs: "Active" Tools for Institutional Portfolios
March 1, 2017-Institutional assets are flowing into exchange-traded funds as U.S. institutions integrate ETFs into essential functions ranging from risk management and liquidity enhancement to the generation of income and yield in a challenging interest-rate...
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Source: Greenwich Associates
Frank Holmes: Bullish on Airlines and Gold
March 1, 2017--Frank Holmes, CEO and chief investment officer of U.S. Global Investors, joined Benzinga's PreMarket Prep morning show in early February to discuss two areas of his expertise: airlines and gold.
Frank remains bullish on both industries, and notes that airlines have seen better performance lately, despite their spotty track record in the past, for a number of reasons.
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Source: usglobaletfs.com
BlueStar Israel Weekly Market Snapshot #19 FRB-Beige Book-March 01, 2017
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March 1, 2017--BlueStar Israel Weekly Market Snapshot #19 is available for viewing.
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Source: Blue Star Indexes
March 1, 2017--National Summary
This report was prepared at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York based on information collected on or before February 17, 2017.
This document summarizes comments received from contacts outside the Federal Reserve System and is not a commentary on the views of Federal Reserve officials.
Reports from all twelve Federal Reserve Districts indicated that the economy expanded at a modest to moderate pace from early January through mid-February. Consumer spending expanded modestly since the last report. Retail sales increased at a subdued pace across most of the nation, with a number of Districts noting an ongoing shift from in-store to internet purchasing.
Source: federalreserve.gov
