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White House Fact Sheet: Strengthening Retirement Security by Cracking Down on Conflicts of Interest in Retirement Savings
April 6, 2016--Middle class economics means that Americans should be able to retire with dignity after a lifetime of hard work. But today, the rules of the road do not ensure that financial advisers act in their clients' best interest when they give retirement investment advice.
Instead, some firms incentivize advisers to steer clients into products that may have higher fees and lower returns. These conflicts of interest in retirement advice cost America's families an estimated $17 billion a year.
REX Shares Introduces First Ever Gold Hedged Equity ETFs
April 5, 2016--REX Shares, LLC (REX) today announced the launch of two exchange-traded funds (ETFs): the REX Gold Hedged S&P 500 ETF (NYSE Arca: GHS) and the REX Gold Hedged FTSE Emerging Markets ETF (NYSE Arca: GHE).
Both funds seek to allow for investors to diversify their portfolios by accessing exposure to gold without reducing equity allocations. The funds also can help protect against the risk of a weakening U.S. dollar through gold exposure.
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Source: REX
Bats Global Markets, Inc. Announces the Launch of its Initial Public Offering
April 4, 2016--Bats Global Markets, Inc. ("Bats"), a leading global operator of exchanges and services for financial markets, today announced the launch of its initial public offering of 11,200,000 shares of its common stock by certain Bats stockholders.
The initial public offering price per share is expected to be between $17.00 and $19.00.
Certain selling stockholders have also granted the underwriters a 30-day option to purchase up to an additional 1,680,000 shares. Bats will not receive any proceeds from the sale of any shares by the selling stockholders. Bats has applied to list the shares of its common stock on the Bats BZX Exchange under the symbol "BATS."
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Source: Bats Global Markets, Inc.
J.P. Morgan Asset Management Launches Two New ETFS: JPIH and JPEH
expands innovative strategic beta suite with two currency-hedged equity ETFs
April 4, 2016--J.P. Morgan Asset Management today announced the expansion of its strategic beta suite with the launch of two new funds, JPMorgan Diversified Return Europe Currency Hedged Equity ETF (JPEH) and JPMorgan Diversified Return International Currency Hedged Equity (JPIH).
Similar to JPMorgan Diversified Return Europe Equity ETF (JPEU) and Diversified Return International Equity ETF (JPIN), JPEH and JPIH offer a risk-managed approach to investing that can allow investors to capture most of the upside with a goal of providing less volatility in down markets.
AdvisorShares Weekly Market Update-This Week in Active ETFs: First Quarter Ends With A Meh!
Highlights of the Prior week-For the week of March 28-April 1
April 4, 2016--A funny thing happened on the way to the quarter end; the tight correlation between WTI and the equity market appears to be broken as their fortunes diverged sharply last week with
the S&P 500 rallying 1.81% while West Texas Intermediate Crude fell 7.70%; more than 4% on Friday alone.
The rally last week lifted the broad market into positive territory
for the quarter; 1.50% for Dow Jones Industrial Average and 77 basis points for the S&P 500 (plus another 55 basis points for the dividend).
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Source: AdvisorShares
TSX Welcomes TD Asset Management, Canada's Newest ETF Provider to Open the Market
April 4, 2016--Executives from TD Asset Management Inc. (TDAM) will join Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX) to open trading this morning to celebrate the launch of their new exchange traded fund (ETF) business.
Last week, TDAM's six new passive ETFs began trading on TSX, including products designed to track the performance of Canadian fixed income markets as well as Canadian, U.S. and international equities.
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Source: TMX Group
Morgan Stanley Favors Inflation-Linked Debt as Fed Seen 'Dovish'
April 3, 2016--We continue to like being long 30-year TIPS, company says
MS's view echoes BlackRock, Pimco calls for inflation pickup
Morgan Stanley recommended Treasury Inflation Protected Securities, following inflation warnings from BlackRock Inc., Pacific Investment Management Co. and Bill Gross.
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Source: Bloomberg
Horizons ETF Trust to Close and Liquidate the Horizons Korea KOSPI 200 ETF
April 2, 2016--After careful consideration, the Board of Trustees of the Horizons ETF Trust has determined to close and liquidate the Horizons Korea KOSPI 200 ETF (NYSE: HKOR)(the "Fund"), which is managed and marketed by Horizons ETFs Management (USA) LLC ("Horizons USA").
The last day of trading of the Fund's shares on the NYSE Arca will be April 29, 2016.
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Source: Horizons ETFs Management (USA) LLC
Bats Global Markets set to test water over second listing attempt
April 2, 2016--Bats Global Markets could launch a marketing blitz as early as next week in its second attempt to list as the exchanges operator pushes forward with going public, a person familiar with the deal said.
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Source: FT.com
ISE Holdings Reports Business Activity for March 2016
April 1, 2016--ISE's options exchanges combined to represent 16.8% of equity options market share, excluding dividend trades.
ISE's options exchanges reported a combined ADV of 2.3 million contracts.
Dividend trades made up 0.8% of industry volume in March 2016.
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Source: ise.com
