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First Trust Expands Income Options with Active CEF-Based ETFs
September 29, 2016--First Trust has rolled out two new actively managed exchange traded funds that target closed-end funds focused on income generation.
First Trust recently launched the First Trust CEF Income Opportunity ETF (NasdaqGM: FCEF) and First Trust Municipal CEF Income Opportunity ETF (NasdaqGM: MCEF). FCEF has a 2.5% total expense ratio and MCEF has a 1.91% total expense ratio.
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Source: foxbusiness.com
IMF-Brazil: Staff Concluding Statement of the 2016 Article IV Mission
September 29, 2016--1. Brazil's deep recession has many roots. Policymaking in recent years has failed to tackle long-standing structural problems and proven to be counterproductive, contributing to the erosion of policy credibility and a large contraction of output.
The recession has been made worse by several other factors, including declining terms of trade, tight financing conditions, necessary but steep increases in electricity tariffs, a corruption scandal, and a political crisis, which has underpinned heightened uncertainty. The recession has taken a massive toll on employment and progress on reducing social inequalities has slowed. Despite a large output gap, inflation has exceeded the top end of the target band since 2015, as disinflation has proceeded slowly.
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Source: IMF
ITG-Volatility Series: Trading Halts
September 29, 2016--Single-stock circuit breakers occurred almost 1300 times on 8/24/15
ETFs represent 79% of halts
Halts are imprecise but a net benefit
Equity market volatility has come roaring back over the past month. As the VIX flirts with levels unseen since the financial crisis and 2% index moves represent a regular occurrence, the typically sleepy months of August and September have been anything but for equity traders.
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Source: ITG
Pimco-No recession, but substantial risks through 2017-PIMCO's Cyclical Outlook, September 2016
September 28, 2016--Our cyclical baseline forecast through 2017 is for a continuous global economic expansion, mostly supportive monetary and fiscal policies and broadly range-bound markets.
However, we are concerned about risks lurking beneath the surfac,, especially in the context of asset prices that in many cases appear stretched. The recent bout of market volatility that followed sedated summer trading may be a guide to what lies ahead: occasional regime switches between periods of relative calm (supported by benign macroeconomic data and sedative monetary policy) and periods of rising volatility and uncertainty caused by..."whatever."
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Source: Pimco
CFTC.gov Swaps Report Update
September 28, 2016--CFTC's Weekly Swaps Report has been updated, and is now available.
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Source: CFTC.gov
SEC Proposes Rule Amendment to Expedite Process for Settling Securities Transactions
September 28. 2016--The Securities and Exchange Commission today voted to propose a rule amendment to shorten the standard settlement cycle for most broker-dealer securities transactions from three business days after the trade date (T+3) to two business days after the trade date (T+2).
The proposed amendment is designed to reduce the risks that arise from the value and number of unsettled securities transactions prior to the completion of settlement, including credit, market, and liquidity risk directly faced by U.S. market participants.
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Source: SEC.gov
SEC Adopts Rules for Enhanced Regulatory Framework for Securities Clearing Agencies
September 28, 2016--The Securities and Exchange Commission voted today to adopt new rules to establish enhanced standards for the operation and governance of securities clearing agencies that are deemed systemically important or that are involved in complex transactions, such as security-based swaps.
The Commission also voted to propose to apply the enhanced standards established by the new rules to other categories of securities clearing agencies, including all SEC-registered central counterparties.
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Source: SEC.gov
SEC Charges UBS With Supervisory Failures in Sale of Complex Products to Retail Investors
September 28, 2016--The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that UBS Financial Services has agreed to pay more than $15 million to settle charges that it failed to adequately educate and train its sales force about critical aspects of certain complex financial products it sold to retail investors.
The SEC's order finds that UBS failed to develop and implement policies and procedures reasonably designed to educate and train UBS registered representatives in connection with the sale of reverse convertible notes (RCNs) so that they could form a reasonable basis to make suitable recommendations.
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Source: SEC.gov
First Actively Managed Utilities ETF "UTES" Celebrates One Year of Operation
September 28, 2016--ETF has benefitted from Reaves Asset Management's 50 years of expertise in the sector
The Reaves Utilities ETF (Ticker: UTES) has marked its first full year of management. (Inception date of the fund is 9/23/2015.)
UTES is the only actively managed and fully transparent utilities exchange traded fund (ETF). In its first year of operations, UTES's managers have employed a relative value strategy, to focus on distinctive opportunities in the utilities sector that have the potential for consistent earnings growth in the long term. UTES had a total return, including reinvested distributions, of 29.02% in its first full year of operations which outperformed its benchmark* by 321 basis points. The fund’s Total Annual Operating Expense is 0.95%.
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Source: Reaves Asset Management
AdvisorShares Launches the AdvisorShares KIM Korea ETF (Ticker: KOR)
September 28, 2016--Actively managed offering provides direct access to Korea's
equity market through the country's
leading asset manager
AdvisorShares, a leading sponsor of actively managed exchange-traded funds (ETFs), announced today that the AdvisorShares KIM Korea Equity ETF (NYSE Arca: KOR) is scheduled to begin trading on Thursday, September 29, 2016.
KOR is sub-advised by Korea Investment Management Co., Ltd. (KIM). Founded in 1974 and headquartered in Seoul, South Korea, the firm is the country's largest independent asset manager with a well-established equity investment approach that stands continuously committed to bringing sustained outperformance to its clients over the long-term
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Source: AdvisorShares
