Global ETF News Older than One Year
Free Fidelity Funds Stoke Price War in Bid to Catch Index Giants
August 1, 2018--Firm will also reduce prices on existing index mutual funds
BlackRock, T. Rowe Price shares decline on Fidelity news
Fidelity Investments, having lost billions of dollars in assets to rivals, pulled out some new ammunition to use against them--dropping fees to zer
The move is part of an ongoing reckoning at Fidelity.
Source: Bloomberg
IOSCO issues recommendations to help trading venues manage extreme volatility
August 1, 2018--The Board of the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) today published eight recommendations to assist trading venues and regulatory authorities in the implementation of mechanisms to manage extreme volatility and preserve orderly trading.
Following recent extreme volatility events, regulatory authorities and trading venues have been reviewing their approaches to managing extreme volatility, particularly through the use of volatility control mechanisms. Volatility control mechanisms seek to minimize market disruption triggered by events such as erroneous orders, by halting or temporarily constraining trading. IOSCO believes that these mechanisms support the goal of ensuring that markets are fair, efficient and transparent, thereby increasing market integrity and investor confidence.
Source: IOSCO
ETFGI reports that active ETFs and ETPs listed globally gathered net inflows of US$2.59 billion during June 2018
July 31, 2018-- ETFGI, a leading independent research and consultancy firm on trends in the global ETF/ETP ecosystem, reported today that active ETFs and ETPs listed globally gathered net new assets of US$2.59 billion during June 2018, the lowest monthly net inflow since December 2017. (All dollar values in USD unless otherwise noted.)
Highlights
Active ETFs and ETPs listed globally gathered net new assets of $2.59 Bn during June 2018, the lowest net inflows gathered since December 2017.
Fixed income products gathered the largest net inflows during June, while inverse ETFs/ETPs experienced the largest net outflows.
Source: ETFGI
ETFGI reports that assets invested in leveraged and inverse ETFs and ETPs listed globally reached $79.9 billion at the end of June 2018
July 31, 2018--According to ETFGI's June 2018 Leveraged and Inversed ETF and ETP industry insights report, a monthly report included in the annual paid-for research subscription service, assets invested in leveraged and inverse ETFs and ETPs listed globally totalled US$79.9 billion at the end of June 2018; decreasing by 2.60% from US$82.1 billion at the end of May. (All dollar values in USD unless otherwise noted).
Highlights
Assets invested in leveraged and inverse ETFs/ETPs decreased by 2.60% during June 2018 to reach $79.9 Bn
During June, leveraged and inverse ETFs/ETPs listed globally saw net outflows of $1.65 Bn.
Source: ETFGI
ETFGI reports that Smart Beta ETFs and ETPs listed globally gathered net inflows of US$4.91 billion during June 2018
July 31, 2018--ETFGI, a leading independent research and consultancy firm on trends in the global ETF/ETP ecosystem, reported net inflows of US$4.91 billion into Smart Beta ETFs and ETPs listed globally during June 2018, marking the 29th consecutive month of net inflows. (All dollar values in USD unless otherwise noted.)
Highlights
Net new assets gathered by Smart Beta ETFs/ETPs listed globally were $4.91 Bn during June 2018.
June 2018 marked the 29th consecutive month of net inflows.
Source: ETFGI
ETFGI reports that currency hedged ETFs and ETPs listed globally gathered net inflows of US$100 million during June 2018
July 31, 2018-- ETFGI, a leading independent research and consultancy firm on trends in the global ETF/ETP ecosystem, reported today that currency hedged ETFs and ETPs listed globally gathered net new assets of US$100 million during June 2018. (All dollar values in USD unless otherwise note
Highlights
Currency hedged ETFs and ETPs listed globally gathered net new assets of $100 Mn during June 2018.
Source: ETFGI
FMSB publishes new financial markets misconduct research
July 27, 2018--The FICC Markets Standards Board ("FMSB") today publishes its Behavioural Cluster Analysis ("BCA") study. This is a unique piece of research that has reviewed the behavioural patterns in 390 cases of misconduct in financial markets over an extended period of time (225 years stretching back to 1792) and covering 26 countries and multiple asset classes.
This review indicates that the behavioural patterns evident in misconduct events are not unique to each case but that the same 25 behavioural patterns are evident in market misconduct cases and these consistently repeat and recur over time.
The purpose of the work is practical. This work addresses a number of the findings of the Fair and Effective Markets Review 2015 (FEMR). In particular, identifying the root causes and relevant behaviours which underlie market misconduct is an essential step in preventing them recurring and the work leverages the experience of domestic and international markets to do this.
view the FMSB Behavioural Cluster Analysis ("BCA") study
Source: FMSB
DECPG Global Weekly
July 27, 2018--TAKING STOCK
U.S. GDP growth accelerated in 2018Q2; composite PMI edged down in July
The U.S. and European Union reached agreement to ease trade tensions
The ECB kept policy on hold; Euro Area composite PMI softened in July
Japan's manufacturing PMI fell to a 20-month low in July
Capital outflows from EMDEs slowed in July
Source: World Bank
Financial world doomed to repeat bad behaviour
July 26, 2018--Worst types of transgressions have a habit of being repeated
Seven sins of finance have been repeated for centuries, as fraudsters carry out the same tricks to rip off investors despite tightening levels of regulatory scrutiny and advances in technology.
From gilt investors spreading false news that Napoleon Bonaparte had been killed in 1814 to two authors of the Daily Mirror's "City Slickers" column trading in shares they tipped almost two centuries later, there are a "limited number of behaviour patterns" that keep being repeated in financial fraud.
Source: FT.com
ERI Scientific Beta Newsletter-Quarterly,Issue 22, July 2018
July 25, 2018--Managing Sector Risk in Factor Investing
Common smart factor indices give explicit exposures to priced risk factors that should provide good long-term risk-adjusted performance. But they are also known to expose investors to a number of hidden or implicit risks as it has been documented in a recent Scientific Beta white paper (Shirbini, 2018).
In particular, investors expose themselves to an implicit bet on market beta, since most smart factor indices have a market beta below one. Other implicit risks are macroeconomics risks and sector or country risks. In this article, we will focus on the implicit sector risk taken by smart factor indices and will try to understand the implications on their short and long-term risk-adjusted performance. We will also discuss possibilities to avoid sector risks through appropriate risk control options, in particular the sector neutrality constraints introduced in Amenc and Goltz (2013) and available on the Scientific Beta index platform since its launch in 2013.
Source: Scientific Beta
