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Federal Reserve Issues FOMC Statement
January 30, 2013--Information received since the Federal Open Market Committee met in December suggests that growth in economic activity paused in recent months, in large part because of weather-related disruptions and other transitory factors.
Employment has continued to expand at a moderate pace but the unemployment rate remains elevated. Household spending and business fixed investment advanced, and the housing sector has shown further improvement. Inflation has been running somewhat below the Committee’s longer-run objective, apart from temporary variations that largely reflect fluctuations in energy prices. Longer-term inflation expectations have remained stable.
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Source: FRB
BNY Mellon Classic ADR Index(SM) 18% Return in 2012 Beats S&P 500, Led by Europe
Strong country performance in Europe, Australia, China drive DR index gains, according to BNY Mellon's 2012 DR market update; other milestones set in volatile
January 30, 2013-The BNY Mellon Classic ADR Index posted an 18% return last year, beating the 16% gain by the Standard & Poor's 500 Index of U.S. shares, and reversing a 2011 loss even as overall depositary receipt trading shrank, according to BNY Mellon's year-end report on the DR market.(1)
"The outperformance of the Classic ADR Index is significant, given that overall DR trading value dropped in 2012 and U.S. stocks performed well during a year of political wrangling," said Christopher M. Kearns, deputy CEO of BNY Mellon's Depositary Receipts business. "International portfolio diversification through DRs has offered a viable option to many investors, even as geopolitics led to periods of unsettled markets and made companies cautious about committing capital."
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Source: BNY Mellon
Continued growth for ETPs
January 30, 2013--Having seen a record-breaking year for inflows in 2012, the global Exchange Traded Products (ETP) market is attracting increased investment from institutional, professional and retail investors alike, according to BlackRock.
For Dodd Kittsley, global head of ETP research for BlackRock, ETPs have proven themselves to be a way to access assets classes in a cost-efficient and effective way, whatever the market conditions.
"Hot on the heels of an impressive 2012, the market has continued to grow in the early months of 2013, and we expect this to continue during the rest of this year," he said.
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Source: Money Management
Fitch: index fund, ETF price competition rising for US banks
January 29, 2013--Price competition among providers of mutual funds and
exchange-traded funds (ETFs) is likely to put pressure on investment management
fee growth for U.S. trust and custodial banks, according to Fitch Ratings.
Recent moves by Fidelity, Vanguard, Schwab, Blackrock, and other fund managers to reduce index fund and ETF fees paid by increasingly cost-conscious investors will make it difficult for trust banks, such as State Street, Northern Trust,
and Bank of New York Mellon, to push through meaningful fee growth on individual
and institutional customer accounts.
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Source: Reuters
Vanguard cuts fees again, 12 percent at Strategic Equity Fund
January 28, 2013--Vanguard Group, the No. 1 U.S. mutual fund company, says it is reducing more fees, targeting four actively managed funds, including a 12 percent cut at the $3.3 billion Strategic Equity Fund, and many of its popular target retirement funds.
The moves, announced on Monday and last week, followed Vanguard's decision last month to lower fees across dozens of its index-tracking stock and bond funds, following similar actions by competitors. The cuts at the actively managed funds will help Vanguard's three major customer groups: individual investors who buy from Vanguard directly, 401(k) plan participants and investment advisers.
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Source: Reuters
Investors pour record $55 billion into U.S. stock funds in January
January 28, 2013--Investors poured $55 billion in new cash into stock mutual funds and exchange-traded funds in January, the biggest monthly inflow on record, research provider TrimTabs Investment Research said.
U.S. stock mutual funds and ETFs accounted for $25.2 billion of the total cash gains, the most since January 2004. Global mutual funds and ETFs overtook them with inflows of $29.8 billion, a monthly record according to the research company.
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Source: Reuters
Federal Reserve Board Announces Release Dates For Results From Supervisory Stress Tests And From The Comprehensive Capital Analysis And Review (CCAR)
January 28, 2013--The Federal Reserve Board on Monday announced that results from the supervisory stress tests conducted as part of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act will be released on Thursday, March 7, and the related results from the Comprehensive Capital Analysis and Review, or CCAR, will be released on Thursday, March 14.
Results will be released for both exercises at 4:30 p.m. Eastern Time.
The Dodd-Frank Act stress tests are forward-looking exercises conducted by the Federal Reserve and large financial companies supervised by the Federal Reserve to help assess whether institutions have sufficient capital to absorb losses and support operations during adverse economic conditions. The Dodd-Frank Act supervisory stress test results will include data such as capital ratios, revenue, and loss estimates under a severely adverse scenario and assuming a common set of capital actions that is used in the analysis of all of the firms. The standardized capital actions used in the Dodd-Frank Act stress test results provide for comparability across the firms as they assume no changes in recent levels of dividend payments and no common stock repurchases.
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Source: FBR
Morgan Stanley-US ETF Weekly Update
January 28, 2013--US ETF Weekly Update
Weekly Flows: $3.3 Billion Net Inflows
10th Consecutive Week of Net Inflows
ETF Assets Stand at $1.4 Trillion, up 5% YTD
No ETF Launches Last Week
US-Listed ETFs: Estimated Flows by Market Segment
ETFs posted net inflows of $3.3 bln last week, the 10th consecutive week of net inflows
Net inflows were led by Fixed Income ETFs ($902 mln in net inflows last week); uncharacteristically, no ETF category generated
net inflows/outflows of more than $1 bln
ETF assets stand at $1.4 tln, up 5% YTD; $24.4 bln net inflows YTD
13-week flows were mostly positive among asset classes; combined $76.4 bln in net inflows
International Equity ETFs have exhibited net inflows of $32.1 bln over the past 13 weeks (57% into EM Equity ETFs)
Over the last 13 weeks, Leveraged/Inverse ETFs posted the largest net outflows of any category ($1.4 bln)
US-Listed ETFs: Estimated Largest Flows by Individual ETF
FlexShares Mngstr Global Upstream Natural Resources Fd (GUNR) posted net inflows of $478 mln last week
GUNR’s recent flows have been impressive and the ETF now has a market cap of nearly $1.4 bln; last week’s net inflows, the most of
any ETF, made up 35% of GUNR’s market cap
Interestingly, the SPDR Gold Trust (GLD) has exhibited net outflows for six of the past seven weeks totaling $1.2 bln; the spot price
of gold is down about 3% for this time period
Despite modest net outflows last week, the SPDR S&P 500 ETF (SPY) has generated net inflows of $12.6 bln (62% of total US Large-Cap net inflows) over the last 13 weeks, the most of any ETF
US-Listed ETFs: Short Interest Data Updated: Based on data as of 1/15/13
Vanguard FTSE Emerging Markets ETF (VWO) had the largest increase in USD short interest at $900 mln
VWO's shares short are at their highest level of all time; we find the data point interesting because VWO is not typically the vehicle that investors use to get short emerging markets
SPDR S&P 500 ETF (SPY) shares short are at their lowest level since 10/15/12
Aggregate ETF USD short interest decreased by $2.2 bln over the past two weeks ended 1/15/13
The average shares short/shares outstanding for ETFs is currently 5.5%
SPDR Retail ETF (XRT) shares short/shares outstanding eclipsed 1,000% on 1/15/13 as flows into and out of XRT have been very volatile the past few weeks; retail ETFs are consistently some of the most heavily shorted ETFs
Based on multiple borrowings and the ability to continuously create new shares, shares short as a % of shares outstanding can exceed 100% (only six ETFs exhibited shares short as a % of shares outstanding greater than 100%)
US-Listed ETFs: Most Successful Recent Launches by Assets
Source: Bloomberg, Morgan Stanley Smith Barney Research.
Data estimated as of 1/25/13 based on daily change in share counts and daily NAVs.
$10.1 billion in total market cap of ETFs less than 1-year old
Newly launched Active ETFs account for 46% of the market cap of ETFs launched over the past year; PIMCO Total Return ETF (BOND) is the largest actively managed ETF with a market cap of $4.0 bln
One new ETF listing and three closures YTD (13 announced closures)
The top 10 most successful launches make up 69% of the market cap of ETFs launched over the past year
Six different ETF sponsors and two asset classes represented in top 10 most successful launches
Seven out of the 10 most successful launches over the past year have an income orientation
iShares ETFs account for 30% of ETFs launched over the past year and make up 26% of total market cap; excluding BOND, iShares ETFs account for 44% of the market cap of ETFs launched over the past year
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Source: Morgan Stanley
ICI ETF Assets December 2012
January 28, 2013—The combined assets of the nation's exchange-traded funds (ETFs) were $1.337 trillion in December, according to ICI. The Institute's monthly statistical collection also includes the value of shares issued and redeemed by exchange-traded funds.
Statistics contained in the Institute’s monthly ETF report have been obtained from information provided to ICI by exchange-traded funds and commodity funds. Commodity funds are listed in the Domestic (Sector/Industry) category.
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Source: ICI
BlackRock Canada licenses Morningstar Global Long/Flat Commodity Index
Index to serve as new benchmark for iShares Broad Commodity Index Fund By IE Staff
January 28, 2013-- Chicago-based investment research firm Morningstar, Inc. (NASDAQ: MORN) said Monday that Toronto-based BlackRock Asset Management Canada Ltd. has licensed the Morningstar Global Long/Flat Commodity Index to serve as the new benchmark for the iShares Broad Commodity Index Fund (TSX:CBR).
This is the first investable vehicle listed in Canada to track the Morningstar Global Long/Flat Commodity Index.
The index is a fully collateralized commodity futures index that uses a momentum rule to determine if each commodity is held long or the assets are moved to cash, Morningstar says.
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Source: Investment Executive
