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Taiwan issues rules on leveraged futures ETFs
February 22, 2016--Taiwan's Financial Supervisory Commission has revised rules governing futures funds to allow local fund houses to launch leveraged and inverse futures exchange traded funds.
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Source: FT.com
WisdomTree Commences Operations in Japan
February 15, 2016--Japan Subsidiary Granted Type 1 Financial Instruments Business Registration by Japan's Ministry of Finance
WisdomTree Investments, Inc. (NASDAQ:WETF), an exchange-traded fund ("ETF") and exchange-traded product ("ETP") sponsor and asset manager, today announced its Japan-based subsidiary, WisdomTree Japan K.K., has completed its Type 1 Financial Instruments Business ("Type 1 Business") registration with the Kanto Local Finance Bureau of Japan's Ministry of Finance.
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Source: WisdomTree
BMO Global Asset Management Introduces New ETFs in Hong Kong
Four new additions are structured to provide investors with access to key sectors and global markets
February 17, 2016--BMO Global Asset Management, a part of BMO Financial Group, today launched four Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) in Hong Kong.
"These four equity ETFs are all firsts for this market and reflect BMO Global Asset Management's ongoing commitment to offering relevant, innovative and client-focused products," said Ravi Sriskandarajah, Managing Director and Head, BMO Global Asset Management (Asia Pacific).
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Source: BMO Global Asset Management
India Takes China's Crown As Fastest Growing Economy
February 16, 2016--With a growth rate of 7.5 percent India outpaced China's 6.9 percent.
India's growth was 7.3 percent in the last quarter of 2015, according to official government figures. New Delhi says it expects growth for...
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Source: emergingequity.org
'Some super bears are now expecting an imminent collapse of China's banking system and currency'
February 16, 2016--China's banking sector is now so big that if it even if it lost only of 10% of its outstanding loans to defaults, that would be the equivalent of wiping out about 30% of China's annual GDP, according to UBS economist Tao Wang.
That scenario would require an immediate bailout of China's banking system, which is now the largest in the world, Wang says, so "some super bears are now expecting an imminent collapse of China's banking system and currency."
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Source: businessinsider.co.id
BetaShares Weekly Newsletter-The Relative Performance of Fundamental Indexing over the Cycle
February 16, 2016--Due to the tendency of stock prices to over and undershoot fundamentals over the economic cycle, both finance theory and empirical evidence suggests that "fundamentally weighted" equity indices (FWIs) should over time outperform more traditional market-cap weighted equity indices (MCWIs).
We have previously explored the relative performance of FWIs in relation to sector rotation over time.
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Source: BetaShares
BetaSmartz Launches First Across-the-Board Automated Investment Platform
February 15, 2016--BetaSmartz's technology, based on six decades of Nobel prize-winning research and industry expertise, utilises a wide universe of investment products to create portfolios that equal the performance and sophistication of those in use at global fund managers, on a platform flexible, scalable and efficient enough to suit institutions, adviser groups and individuals.
Founder and CEO John James sees BetaSmartz as the vendor of choice for the robo-advice industry. "Robo-advice is a buzzword right now, but basically it's the application of technology to what is otherwise a manual, inefficient process.
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Source:Yahoo Finance
Japanese Economy Contracts On Falling Consumer Demand
February 15, 2016--Japan's economy shrank 0.4 percent between October and December, compared with the previous quarter.
This raises questions about Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's financial stimulus policy to lift the world's third largest economy out of stagnation. On an annualized basis the economy contracted 1.4 percent during the period.
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Source: emergingequity.org
Easier for individuals to buy bonds
February 15, 2016--China's central bank yesterday allowed individual investors to purchase all types of bonds over bank counters.
Individuals with annual income of more than 500,000 yuan (US$76,500), 3 million yuan of financial assets and over two years of experience in securities investment can now buy any bonds they like over the counter, according to a regulation released by the People's Bank of China.
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Source: shanghaidaily.com
China Spurs Biggest Yuan Rally Since 2005 as Zhou Voices Support
February 14, 2016--PBOC strengthens reference rate by the most in three months
Containing depreciation expectations a top priority: Mizuho
China's central bank handed investors a confidence booster, strengthening the yuan's fixing by the most in three months and talking up the currency as markets reopened after the week-long Lunar New Year break.
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Source: Bloomberg
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