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Solar: Creating Jobs in the U.S. Through Growth & Innovation
February 17, 2015--If you're looking for an example of growth and innovation in the U.S. that's creating lots of jobs, look no further than solar, which is popping up everywhere, from airports to schools and the military, and of course, at homes and businesses.
In late December, the world's largest solar array at an airport starting generating power at Indianapolis International Airport. Covering 162 acres, electricity from the 22.2 megawatt (MW) system (76,000 solar panels) will be sold to the utility to power residential and commercial customers. The biggest solar system in Minnesota is under construction at Minneapolis St. Paul International Airport-at 3 MW, it will provide 20% of the power.
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Source: Nasdaq.com
A New Event Debt ETF Filed by Eccles Street
February 16, 2015--A wide variety of products have been launched in the ETF world so far this year by several providers, big and small.
Continuing this trend, Eccles Street Asset Management, which is a new player in the industry, looks to launch an active ETF targeting the fixed income ETF space.
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Source: Nasdaq.com
ProShares Launches First 2x and -2x Gold Miners ETFs
Four New ETFs Offer 2x and -2x Exposure to Gold Miners and Junior Gold Miners Indexes
February 13, 2015--ProShares, a premier provider of alternative ETFs, today announced the launch of the only ETFs in the United States offering 2x and -2x exposure to gold and silver mining stocks.
The new ProShares ETFs, all of which are listed on NYSE Arca, are:
Ultra Gold Miners (GDXX), which seeks to provide 2x the daily performance of the NYSE Arca Gold Miners IndexSM
UltraShort Gold Miners (GDXS), which seeks to provide -2x the daily performance of the NYSE Arca Gold Miners Index
Ultra Junior Miners (GDJJ), which seeks to provide 2x the daily performance of the Market Vectors(TM) Global Junior Gold Miners Index
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Source: ProShares
CLS Investments, Riskalyze launch robo exclusively for advisers
Latest entrant seeks to combine investment, risk technology and human advice but it's not free
February 13, 2015--CLS Investments and Riskalyze are joining forces to offer financial advisers access to a new robo-adviser.
The platform, which will be known as AutoPilot, will let users measure investment risks inherent in the portfolio. AutoPilot is slated to go live in early April, according to CLS chief executive Todd Clarke and Riskalyze CEO Aaron Klein.
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Source: Investment News
CFTC.gov Commitments of Traders Reports Update
February 13, 2015--The current reports for the week of February 10, 2015 are now available.
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Source: CFTC.gov
Recent Smart Beta ETF Launches by Category
February 13, 2015--One of the defining trends of ETF based investing has been the growth in 'smart beta' ETFs. Though we don't like the term (others sometimes refer to it as 'strategic beta'), this category of ETFs has rapidly grown in adoption.
In April 2014, in a guest post for S&P Dow Jones, we defined 'smart beta' and estimated the smart beta ETF space for US equity exposure to be ~ $75B, i.e. about 9% of the total ETF assets for domestic US equities at the time.
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Source: First Bridge
Deutsche Bank to Redeem Six Exchange Traded Notes
February 13, 2015--Deutsche Bank announced today that it has elected to redeem the following PowerShares DB exchange traded notes (ETNs):
PowerShares DB 3x Italian Treasury Bond Futures ETN (ticker: ITLT)
PowerShares DB Italian Treasury Bond Futures ETN (ticker: ITLY)
PowerShares DB US Inflation ETN (ticker: INFL)
PowerShares DB US Deflation ETN (ticker: DEFL)
PowerShares DB 3x Long US Dollar Index Futures ETN (ticker: UUPT)
PowerShares DB 3x Short US Dollar Index Futures ETN (ticker: UDNT)
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Source: Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management
Morningstar Reports U.S. Mutual Fund and ETF Asset Flows for January 2015
February 13, 2015-- Morningstar, Inc. (NASDAQ: MORN), a leading provider of independent investment research, today reported estimated U.S. mutual fund and exchange-traded fund (ETF) asset flows for January 2015.
With the exception of U.S. equity funds, all active Morningstar category groups had positive flows for the first month of the year, led by municipal-bond and sector-equity funds. Passive funds, with inflows of $26.1 billion, outpaced active funds, which took in $470 million in January, and taxable-bond funds led passive offerings with inflows of $10.9 billion.
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Source: Morningstar
Predicting the Next Wall Street Disaster
February 12, 2015--Wouldn't it be great if the U.S. had a heat map of the entire financial system that could alert it to vulnerabilities and approaching calamities before a global crisis struck?
While members of Congress squabble over a move in the House to erode provisions of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, a 64-year-old Wall Street veteran and MIT-trained economist named Richard Bookstaber is quietly working on an ambitious project that aims to do just that.
view the An Agent-based Model for Financial Vulnerability paper
Source: NewsWeek
The (Questionable) Legality of High-Speed "Pinging" and "Front Running" in the Futures Markets
February 12, 2015--Institutional investors complain that high-frequency trading (HFT) firms engage in high-speed "pinging" and "front running" of their orders for trades.
By sending out lightning fast "ping" orders for trades that operate much like sonar does in the ocean, HFT firms can detect when institutional investors will make large trades in futures contracts.
Once a large trade has been detected, an HFT firm rapidly jumps in front of the institutional investor, buying up the liquidity in the contract and selling it back at higher or lower prices (depending on if it was a buy or a sell order).
None other than Warren Buffett's right-hand man has called the HFT practice "evil" and "legalized front running." While many criticize these HFT tactics, they accept their legality at face value. But what if that understanding is incorrect?
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Source: Connecticut Law Review
