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How's Life? reveals improvements in well-being but persistent inequalities

March 9, 2020--Life has generally improved for many people in OECD countries over the past 10 years but inequalities persist and insecurity, despair and disconnection affect significant parts of the population, according to a new report.

OECD's latest How's Life? report says household disposable income per capita has risen in more than half of OECD countries since 2010. Employment rates are up by nearly 5 percentage points on average for people aged 25-64 (today, almost eight in ten adults are in paid employment), and fewer people are working very long hours.

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view the OECD How's Life? 2020 Measuring Well-being

Source: OECD


As the ETF turns 30, it is time for active managers to embrace it

March 4, 2020--Exchange traded funds can provide greater flexibility, lower costs and ready access. The dominant narrative surrounding exchange traded funds over their 30-year history has been a kind of active-versus-indexing derby, in which investors must choose one or the other.

But that is the wrong way of looking at it. These days, there is a quiet revolution under way, in which index-tracking ETFs are used within actively managed portfolios. In an ironic twist, it is active fund managers who are now among the fastest-growing segments among users of ETFs.

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Source: FT.com


Shaping the future of payments: BIS Quarterly Review

March 1, 2020--March 1, 2020--The BIS Quarterly Review takes an in-depth look at the fast-changing world of payments, explaining the strengths and weaknesses of existing systems, describing the rapid pace of technological change and its impact, and assessing new solutions.
Thanks to the speed of changes and the potential for disruption, payment systems have shot to the top of policymakers' agendas.

The BIS and central banks have a leading role in shaping policymakers' response to these changes.

The BIS and central banks have a leading role in shaping policymakers' response to these changes.

"Central banks have a core role in payment systems, and the changes under way require them to step up and play a more significant part in improving the safety and efficiency of these systems," Agustín Carstens, BIS General Manager, wrote in the introduction to this special edition of the Quarterly. "Money and payment systems are founded on trust in the currency-whether cash or digital-and this trust is something that only the central bank can ensure", he added.

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Source: BIS


IMF Working Paper-Transitory and Permanent Shocks in the Global Market for Crude Oil

February 28, 2020--Summary:
This paper documents the determinants of real oil price in the global market based on SVAR model embedding transitory and permanent shocks on oil demand and supply as well as speculative disturbances. We find evidence of significant differences in the propagation mechanisms of transitory versus permanent shocks, pointing to the importance of disentangling their distinct effects.

Permanent supply disruptions turn out to be a bigger factor in historical oil price movements during the most recent decades, while speculative shocks became less influential.

view the IMF Working Paper-Transitory and Permanent Shocks in the Global Market for Crude Oil

Source: IMF


IMF Working Paper: Household Debt and House Prices-at-risk: A Tale of Two Countries

February 28, 2020--Summary:
To identify and quantify downside risks to housing markets, we apply the house price-at-risk methodology to a sample of 37 cities across the United States and Canada using quarterly data from 1983 to 2018. This paper finds that downside risks to housing markets in the United States have seemingly fallen over the past decade, while having increased in Canada.

Supply-side drivers, valuation, household debt, and financial conditions jointly play a key role in forecasting house price risks. In addition, capital flows are found to be significantly associated with future downside risks to major housing markets, but the net effect depends on the type of flows and varies across cities and forecast horizons. Using micro-level data, we identify households vulnerable to potential housing shocks and assess the riskiness of household debt.

view the IMF Working Paper: Household Debt and House Prices-at-risk: A Tale of Two Countries

Source: IMF


Private investors in trading surge as coronavirus sparks market correction

February 28, 2020--As world markets take a turn for the worse, investors use ETFs as they hope to profit from any bounceback

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Source: FT.com


OECD GDP growth slows to 0.2% in the fourth quarter of 2019

February 20, 2020--Growth of real gross domestic product (GDP) in the OECD area slowed to 0.2% in the fourth quarter of 2019, compared with 0.4% in the previous quarter, according to provisional estimates. Among the Major Seven economies with data available for the fourth quarter of 2019, only the United States saw GDP increase (up 0.5%, unchanged from the previous quarter).

GDP contracted sharply in Japan (by minus 1.6%, following October’s increase in consumption tax) and also contracted in Italy (by minus 0.3%) and France (by minus 0.1%).

GDP growth slowed to zero in the United Kingdom and Germany (following growth of 0.5% and 0.2% respectively in the previous quarter‎) and also slowed in the euro area and in the European Union (to 0.1%, from 0.3% in the previous quarter).

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Source: OECD


OECD-Corporate bond debt continues to pile up

February 18, 2020--The volume of corporate debt reached an all time high in real terms of USD 13.5 trillion at the end of 2019, driven by the return of more expansionary monetary policies early in the year. At the same time, the overall quality of corporate debt has declined, according to a new OECD report

Corporate Bond Market Trends, Emerging Risks and Monetary Policy says that non-financial companies borrowed USD 2.1 trillion in the form of corporate bonds in 2019. However, the data show that, in comparison to previous credit cycles, today's stock of outstanding corporate bonds has lower overall credit quality, higher payback requirements, longer maturities and inferior investor protection. This may amplify the negative effects that an economic downturn would have on the non-financial corporate sector and the overall economy.

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Source: OECD


Finding Solid Footing for the Global Economy

February 19, 2020--As the Group of Twenty industrialized and emerging market economies (G-20) finance ministers and central bank governors gather in Riyadh this week, they face an uncertain economic landscape.
After disappointing growth in 2019, we began to see signs of stabilization and risk reduction, including the Phase 1 U.S.-China trade deal. In January, the IMF projected growth to strengthen from 2.9 percent in 2019 to 3.3 percent in 2020 and 3.4 percent in 2021.

This projected uptick in growth is dependent on improved performance in some emerging market and developing economies.

Monetary and fiscal policy have been doing their part. In fact, monetary easing added approximately 0.5 percentage points to global growth last year. Forty-nine central banks cut rates 71 times as part of the most synchronized monetary action since the global financial crisis.

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Source: IMF


BIS-No global real estate market despite higher price synchronisation and growing role of international investors, central banks find

February 18, 2020--Although residential and commercial real estate prices are increasingly moving in sync and the role of international investors is growing, this does not mean that there is a global real estate market, a report by the Committee on the Global Financial System finds.

Property price dynamics: domestic and international drivers documents recent trends in residential and commercial property prices in over 20 countries, gives an overview of key drivers of price developments and describes policy initiatives used to manage associated risks to the economy and financial stability.

Property prices have been rising, reaching record highs in many countries. As prices appear high in comparison to simple rule-of-thumb valuation benchmarks, such as rents and incomes, some central banks are concerned about the consequences of a potential correction. In many cases, however, current price developments can be largely explained by fundamental drivers such as interest rates and income, the report finds.

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Source: BIS


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Middle East ETP News


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Africa ETF News


August 24, 2025 Africa: Nigeria Leads Africa in Stablecoin Adoption With $22bn in Transactions

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ESG and Of Interest News


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