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Hedge Funds Lost Almost 6% Last Year as Markets Roiled Managers
January 8, 2019--Equity hedge, CTA/managed futures led the declines in 2018
Funds slid 1.9% in December: Bloomberg Hedge Fund Database
Hedge funds posted a loss of 5.7 percent last year as managers struggled to capitalize on volatility and were roiled by political uncertainty.
For December, funds lost 1.9 percent, according to preliminary figures from the Bloomberg Hedge Fund Database.
Storm Clouds Are Brewing for the Global Economy
January 8, 2019--The outlook for the global economy in 2019 has darkened.
International trade and investment have softened. Trade tensions remain elevated. Several large emerging markets underwent substantial financial pressures last year.
Against this challenging backdrop, growth in emerging market and developing economies is expected to remain flat in 2019. The pickup in economies that rely heavily on commodity exports is likely to be much slower than hoped for. Growth in many other economies is anticipated to decelerate.
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Yen will continue rally, could appreciate to 102: UBP
In those wild minutes from about 9:30 a.m. Sydney, the yen jumped almost 8 percent against the Australian dollar to its strongest since 2009, and surged 10 percent versus the Turkish lira. Global gold-backed ETF holdings and flows ETFGI reports assets invested in actively managed ETFs and ETPs listed globally reached a new high of US$109 Bn at the end of November 2018
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Money managers: the new warriors of climate change
January 7, 2019--Average daily trading volume in U.S. Treasuries surged over 40 percent in December from a year earlier to almost $83 billion as the front end of the yield curve inverted for the first time in a decade, trading platform Tradeweb said on Monday.
In early December, yields on two-year U.S. government bonds rose above three and five-year bond yields for the first time since 2008, reflecting concerns about a U.S. economic slowdown.
January 6, 2019--CEO Tim Buckley says zero-cost funds such as those offered by Fidelity are 'a gimmick'
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January 4, 2019--The global economy started 2018 with strong, synchronized growth. But as the year progressed, momentum faded and growth trends diverged. The US economy accelerated, thanks to fiscal stimulus enacted early in the year, while the economies of the Eurozone, the UK, Japan and China began to weaken.
These divergent trends will persist in 2019. IHS Markit predicts global growth will edge down from 3.2% in 2018 to 3.1% in 2019, and keep decelerating over the next few years.
January 4, 2019--French asset manager looks at acquisitions or ventures to tap Chinese savings pool
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January 2, 2019--Apple's revenue outlook cut may have been a trigger: Jefferies
It took seven minutes for the yen to surge through levels that have held through almost a decade.
December 31, 2018-Regional and fund-specific analysis of gold holdings and flows in USD.
Gold-backed ETFs and similar products account for a significant part of the gold market, with institutional and individual investors using them to implement many of their investment strategies.
Flows in ETFs often highlight short-term and long-term opinions and desires to holding gold. The data on this page tracks gold held in physical form by open-ended ETFs and other products such as close-end funds, and mutual funds. Most funds included in this list are fully backed by physical gold.
December 28, 2018--ETFGI, a leading independent research and consultancy firm covering trends in the global ETF/ETP ecosystem, reported today that actively managed ETFs and ETPs listed globally gathered net inflows of US$3.64 Bn during November.
Total assets invested in the global actively managed ETF and ETP industry rose 3.11%, pushing the record higher from US$106.09 Bn at the end of October, to US$109.39 Bn, according to ETFGI's November 2018 Active ETF and ETP industry landscape insights report, an annual paid-for research subscription service. (All dollar values in USD unless otherwise noted.)
Total Assets for actively managed ETFs and ETPs listed globally rise 3.11% to reach new high $109 Bn in November.
Net new assets gathered by actively managed ETFs and ETPs listed globally were $3.64 Bn in November.
Actively managed fixed-income ETFs listed in North America continue to grow in popularity.
December 26 2018--Spreadsheet-analysing investors in control of trillion-dollar funds are forcing polluters to change.
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