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June ETF Flows: Is This the Start of an Endless Summer?

July 9, 2018--The idea of an "endless summer" originated with the 1960s surfing documentary bearing the same title. The premise is, with enough time and money, it's possible to follow summer around the world, making it endless.

Our endless summer is also a global story, but it's far from a free-spirited jaunt around the world to find the perfect breakers. Rather, we are riding an endless swell of uncertain political waves, stemming from the tit-for-tat trade negotiations battering the US, Europe and Asia.

The trouble stems from the fact that, despite the Trump administration's steadfast willingness to place tariffs on other nations, there is no clear strategy for the scope and timing of the next actions. So far, the path seems to be a random and reactive walk.

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Source: spdr.com


These are the three main problems affecting blockchain

July 17, 2018--Traditionally, records have been maintained by centralised entities. Distributed ledger technology (DLT) has provided us with a radical alternative to record information. DLT has the potential to be as ground-breaking as the invention of double-entry bookkeeping in 14th century Italy. It could revolutionise the record-keeping of financial transactions and ownership data.

Blockchains are a particular type of distributed ledger written by decentralised, usually anonymous groups of agents rather than known centralised parties. Consensus is attained by making the ledger publicly viewable and verifiable. Ideally, a ledger should:
record all information correctly;
be cost efficient; and
be fully decentralised to avoid any concentration of power.

Following the seminal white paper by Nakamoto (2008), much of the innovation in blockchain technology has been aimed at wresting power from centralised authorities or monopolies.

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Source: World Economic Forum (WEF)


World Gold Council-Gold mid--year outlook 2018

July 16, 2018--In our outlook for second half of 2018, we have identified three key macro trends that will influence gold's behaviour:
positive but uneven global economic growth
trade wars and their impact on currency
rising inflation and an inverted yield curve.

Combined with attractive entry levels, we believe that these trends will increase gold's relevance for investors in the months ahead.

A rocky start for the year
The first half of 2018 proved quite eventful for financial markets. Stocks experienced a few pullbacks during the first quarter as geopolitical tensions rose but have been generally trading upward since the start of Q2. This was especially true in the US and Asia, where tech stocks captured most of the growth. So far, investors seemed to have shrugged off the escalating trade war rhetoric between the US and many of its trading partners or, at least, discounting the effect it may have on long-term economic growth.

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Source: World Gold Council (WGC)


IMF Working paper-Commodity Price Movements and Banking Crises

July 6, 2018--Summary:
We develop an empirical model to predict banking crises in a sample of 60 low-income countries (LICs) over the 1981-2015 period. Given the recent emergence of financial sector stress associated with low commodity prices in several LICs, we assign price movements in primary commodities a key role in our model.

Accounting for changes in commodity prices significantly increases the predictive power of the model. The commodity price effect is economically substantial and robust to the inclusion of a wide array of potential drivers of banking crises. We confirm that net capital inflows increase the likelihood of a crisis; however, in contrast to recent findings for advanced and emerging economies, credit growth and capital flow surges play no significant role in predicting banking crises in LICs.

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Source: IMF


Commodity ETF Flows Show Investors Bracing for a Trade War

July 5, 2018--Trading spikes for soybean fund as tariffs loom on exports
Copper fund sees outflows; gold gains in safe-haven bid

The U.S.-China trade war's about to see its first shots fired, and investors in commodity exchange-traded funds spent the last month getting ready.

The group pulled the most money since February from an ETF that tracks copper, as investors grew concerned tariffs will sink the price of the industrial metal.

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Source: Bloomberg


Prolonged low interest rates could affect financial stability, central banks find

July 5, 2018-- Low market interest rates for a long time could have implications for financial stability as well as for the health of individual financial institutions, a report by the Committee on the Global Financial System finds.

Financial stability implications of a prolonged period of low interest rates identifies channels through which a "low-for-long" interest rate scenario might affect the health of banks, insurance companies and private pension funds

This scenario would be harder on insurers and pension funds than on banks. Even though the CGFS analysis did not show that measures of firms' financial soundness dropped significantly, prolonged low rates could still involve material risks to financial stability. In particular, a "snapback", involving an unexpected sudden increase in market rates from currently low levels, could affect banks' solvency and create liquidity issues for insurers and pension funds.

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This was over 10 times the net inflows gathered during April. (All dollar values in USD unless otherwise noted.)

Highlights
Currency hedged ETFs/ETPs listed globally gathered US$3.13 billion in net inflows during May.
Year-to-date, assets invested in currency hedged ETFs/ETPs increased by 0.01%.

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Source: ETFGI


ETFGI reports assets invested in active ETFs and ETPs listed globally reach record high of US$90.1 billion at the end of May 2018

July 2, 2018--ETFGI, a leading independent research and consultancy firm on trends in the global ETF/ETP ecosystem, reported today that assets invested in active ETFs and ETPs listed globally reached a record high of US$90.1 Bn at the end of May 2018; representing an increase in assets of US$4.04 Bn from the previous record of US$86.1 Bn set at the end of April 2018. (All dollar values in USD unless otherwise noted.)

Highlights
Assets invested in actively-managed ETFs/ETPs listed globally increased by $4.04 Bn during May to reach a record $90.1 Bn.
In May 2018, actively-managed ETFs/ETPs listed globally saw net inflows of $3.20 Bn.
Active fixed income ETFs gathered the largest inflows in May, with net new assets of $1.83 Bn during the month, more than half of all active inflows.

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Source: ETFGI


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