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World Gold Council-Global gold-backed ETF holdings fell 2% in April, resulting in net 2019 outflows to date

May 7, 2019--In April, holdings in global gold-backed ETFs and similar products fell across all regions by 57 tonnes(t) to 2,424t, equivalent to US$2.2bn in outflows. Global assets under management (AUM) in US dollars fell by 3% to US$100bn, as the price of gold of gold fell 1% during the month. Global gold-backed ETFs have now lost assets of US$377mn, 0.4% AUM on the year, reversing January's strong start.

Regional fund flows
North American funds saw outflows of 46t (US$1.9bn, 3.7% AUM)**

Holdings in European funds fell by 8t (US$257mn, 0.6%)
Funds listed in Asia decreased by 2.5t (US$114mn, 4%)
Other regions saw outflows of 0.4t (US$16mn, 1.3%).

Individual fund flows
In North America, SPDR(R) Gold Shares lost 38t (US$1.6bn, 5%) and iShares Gold Trust lost 6t (US$252mn, 2%), the lion's share of the region's outflows
iShares Physical Gold and ETFS Physical Gold in the UK each lost ˜6t, collectively losing around US$500mn

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Source: World Gold Council


Wahed Becomes the First Globally-Accessible Halal Robo-Advisor

May 7, 2019--Wahed Inc. ("Wahed"), the parent company of Wahed Invest LLC, the first halal robo advisor in the United States, today announces it is expanding its operations globally.

The platform, which was previously available only to US and UK communities, now provides access to Islamic value-based investing to residents of over 130 countries including key markets across Nigeria, India, Pakistan and the MENA region.

Wahed looks to change how the Muslim community participates in global financial markets by making investing accessible and ethically compliant for the 1.8 billion Muslims globally.

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Source: Wahed Inc.


IMF Working Paper-Inefficient Fire-Sales in Decentralized Asset Markets

May 6, 2019--Summary:
Classic models of fire-sales that emphasize liquidity-constrained natural buyers can-not fully account for the asset fire-sales during the Financial Crisis of 2008. I present a model to demonstrate that fire-sales may happen even when there is a sizable pool of natural buyers and in the absence of asymmetric information, due to a coordination failure among buyers.

In particular, I show that when trade is decentralized and participation is endogenous, constrained asset demand and liquidity needs that are ex-pected to increase over time create complementarity among buyers' decisions to wait. This complementarity makes competitive markets prone to coordination failures and fire-sales which may be inefficient. I also discuss various policy options to eliminate the risk of fire-sales in such a setup.

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Source: FTSE Russell


Who to Sue When a Robot Loses Your Fortune

May 5, 2019--The first known case of humans going to court over investment losses triggered by autonomous machines will test the limits of liability. Robots are getting more humanoid every day, but they still can't be sued.

So a Hong Kong tycoon is doing the next best thing. He's going after the salesman who persuaded him to entrust a chunk of his fortune to the supercomputer whose trades cost him more than $20 million.

The case pits Samathur Li Kin-kan, whose father is a major investor in Shaftesbury Plc, which owns much of London's Chinatown, Covent Garden and Carnaby Street, against Raffaele Costa, who has spent much of his career selling investment funds for the likes of Man Group Plc and GLG Partners Inc. It's the first-known instance of humans going to court over investment losses triggered by autonomous machines and throws the spotlight on the "black box" problem: If people don't know how the computer is making decisions, who's responsible when things go wrong?

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Source: Bloomberg


Accounting body proposes temporary relief during Libor phase out

May 3, 2019--A global accounting standard setter has proposed a fast-track temporary fix to help banks and businesses manage Libor-based contracts worth $400 trillion during the transition to alternative interest rate benchmarks.

Regulators have set a December 2021 deadline for effectively ending the use of the London Interbank Offered Rate after banks were fined billions of dollars for trying to rig the benchmark.

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Source: Reuters


ULTUMUS Announces Partnership With Velox To Develop Next Generation of Delta One Desktop Products

May 2, 2019--ULTUMUS, the leading global provider of data services for Index and ETF products, today announces a partnership with Velox Financial Technology (Velox), a provider of customized real-time trading technology solutions to provide portfolio management, trading & analytics solutions to investment banks and the asset management community.

Due to the rapid expansion of synthetic products such as ETFs and Indices, our clients find themselves significantly under invested in technology that will allow their businesses to scale while providing efficiency and lower operational risk.

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Source: ULTUMUS


IMF Working Paper-Global Fossil Fuel Subsidies Remain Large: An Update Based on Country-Level Estimates

May 2, 2019--Summary:
This paper updates estimates of fossil fuel subsidies, defined as fuel consumption times the gap between existing and efficient prices (i.e., prices warranted by supply costs, environmental costs, and revenue considerations), for 191 countries.

Globally, subsidies remained large at $4.7 trillion (6.3 percent of global GDP) in 2015 and are projected at $5.2 trillion (6.5 percent of GDP) in 2017. The largest subsidizers in 2015 were China ($1.4 trillion), United States ($649 billion), Russia ($551 billion), European Union ($289 billion), and India ($209 billion). About three quarters of global subsidies are due to domestic factors—energy pricing reform thus remains largely in countries' own national interest—while coal and petroleum together account for 85 percent of global subsidies. Efficient fossil fuel pricing in 2015 would have lowered global carbon emissions by 28 percent and fossil fuel air pollution deaths by 46 percent, and increased government revenue by 3.8 percent of GDP.

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Source: IMF


Millennials And Sophisticated Investors Driving ETF Adoption

May 2, 2019--New Vanguard research examines demographic and behavioral trends of ETF usage
New Vanguard research identified distinctive behavioral trends amongst exchange-traded fund (ETF) investors, concluding that age and investment experience are the foremost drivers of ETF usage.

Early ETF adoption among self-directed investors, published by Vanguard Center for Investor Research, examined the behavior of more than five million retail investor households and revealed that older, more established investors with relatively complex portfolios tend to use ETFs to supplement other investments.

At the other end of the spectrum, ETFs serve as the primary investment vehicle for millennials and new investors.

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Source: Vanguard


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