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Are Transparent Managed ETFs The Future? Fund Manager Cathie Wood Is Betting On It
December 10, 2014--Each week Cathie Wood, founder and CEO of startup Ark Investment Management, gathers her six stock-picking analysts (five twentysomethings and a fiftysomething former filmmaker) for a brainstorming session at its offices in New York City.
The freewheeling discussions cover such holdings as Tesla, Netflix, Athenahealth, Autodesk, Illumina and Salesforce.com and is punctuated by Wood’s characteristically out-there predictions. "I think Oracle is toast, I really do," she declares at one.
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Source: Forbes
ValueShares Launches International Quantitative Value ETF (IVAL)
The systematic, transparent, high-conviction, actively managed IVAL
ETF complements the recent U.S. equity QVAL offering
December 10, 2014--ValueShares (www.valueshares.com) today announced that it has launched the ValueShares International Quantitative Value ETF (BATS:IVAL).
IVAL complements the successful October 22, 2014 launch of the ValueShares U.S. Quantitative Value ETF (BATS:QVAL).
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Source: ValueShares
Nasdaq to List Validea Market Legends ETF
Efficient Way for Investors to Gain Access to a Unique Stock Selection System
December 10, 2014--Nasdaq today announced that Validea Capital Management will list a new exchange-traded fund, Validea Market Legends ETF (Symbol: VALX), on The Nasdaq Stock Market. VALX will begin trading on today, December 10, 2014.
"Validea Capital believes that the best way to outperform the market is to learn from the select group of legendary investors who have done so historically," said John P. Reese, Chief Executive Officer of Validea Capital and co-portfolio manager of the fund. "For over ten years, Validea Capital has been running fundamental-based models using these legendary strategies and now the Validea Market Legends ETF provides an easy way for individual and professional investors to gain access to our unique stock selection approach."
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Source: Nasdaq.com
AdvisorShares Active ETF Report: Shot Term Bonds lead inflows for November
December 9, 2014--The number of actively managed funds increased to 122 as four new funds launched in November.
For the second month in a row the Short Term Bond category was by far the leader in inflows at the category level.
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Source: AdvisorShares
Vident Opens New York Trading Office
December 9, 2014--Vident Financial, the exchange traded funds issuer behind some of the fastest-growing ETFs to come to market over the past year, said that its Vident Investment Advisory unit commenced ETF trading from its New York office today.
“Vident Financial established VIA earlier this year in an effort to improve trading efficiencies and better control costs associated with their ETFs."
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Source: Yahoo News
ETFGI's research finds the ETF/ETP industry in the United States reached a new record of 1.98 trillion US dollars in assets at the end of November
December 9, 2014--ETFGI's research finds 2014 is proving to be a very good year for the ETF/ETP industry in the United States. The ETF/ETP industry in the United States reached a new record of US$1.98 trillion in assets at the end of November.
We expect to see assets break through the US$2 trillion milestone any day.
At the end of November 2014 the US ETF/ETP industry had 1,659 ETFs/ETPs, from 68 providers listed on 3 exchanges. Net new asset inflows into US listed ETF/ETPs were US$42.4 billion in November, which is a record month, beating the previous high of US$41.2 billion set in July 2013.
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Source: ETFGI
CBO-The Economic and Budgetary Effects of Producing Oil and Natural Gas From Shale
December 9, 2014--Recent advances in combining two drilling techniques, hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling, have allowed access to large deposits of shale resources-that is, crude oil and natural gas trapped in shale and certain other dense rock formations.
As a result, the cost of that "tight oil" and "shale gas" has become competitive with the cost of oil and gas extracted from other sources.
Virtually nonexistent a decade ago, the development of shale resources has boomed in the United States, producing about 3.5 million barrels of tight oil per day and about 9.5 trillion cubic feet (Tcf) of shale gas per year. Those amounts equal about 30 percent of U.S. production of liquid fuels (which include crude oil, biofuels, and natural gas liquids) and 40 percent of U.S. production of natural gas. Shale development has also affected the federal budget, chiefly by increasing tax revenues.
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Source: Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
Research Affiliates-Go for the Gold: Commodities and Inflation
December 8, 2014--At present, many investors assign small probabilities to a sudden increase in inflation. They may, in fact, be more concerned about the near-term possibility of deflation.
However, any reasonable investment policy should consider a full range of scenarios, not just the one that is considered most likely. In the current market environment, the impact of unexpected inflation could be stunning, but even a modest amount of inflation protection would mitigate the risk of portfolio losses due to an abrupt rise in prices. In this article, we argue in favor of using commodities to hedge against inflation, and we explain how a smart approach to managing commodity futures contracts can dramatically improve results.
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Source: Research Affiliates
Vanguard turns firepower on shake-up of financial advice market
December 8, 2014--When Jack Bogle launched a low-fee mutual fund company in 1975, he took inspiration from HMS Vanguard, Admiral Horatio Nelson's flagship at the battle of the Nile, for its name and logo.
Now, on the eve of its 40th anniversary, Vanguard’s growth has made it the equivalent of a flotilla of modern battleships, sailing into new territory and increasingly willing to flaunt its firepower.
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Source: FT.com
Morningstar steps up index fight
December 8, 2014--Data provider Morningstar has stepped up its fight for licence revenue from exchange traded fund providers by
launching sixty cap-eighted indices across the world.
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Source: Financial News
