Global ETF News Older than One Year


Bitcoin Exchanges Are Buckling While the Price Surges Past $16,000

December 6, 2017--Largest exchange Coinbase tweets of service interruptions
Demand surging before futures contracts begin trading

Bitcoin surged past $16,000 for the first time on Thursday, with frenzied demand to trade the cryptocurrency buckling one of the largest exchanges just days before the first U.S. futures contracts begin trading.

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Source: Bloomberg


Bitcoin extends gains, rises above $12,000 to record high

December 5, 2017--Bitcoin retained its overnight momentum and rose to a record high of $12,205.46 on Wednesday, continuing its rally from below $1,000 at the year's start.

The cryptocurrency was last up 4.35 percent at $12,185.70 on the Luxembourg-based Bitstamp exchange BTC=BTSP.

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Source: Reuters


Pensions reforms have slowed in OECD countries but need to continue

December 5, 2017--Further reforms are needed across OECD countries to mitigate the impact of population ageing, increasing inequality among the elderly and the changing nature of work, according to a new OECD report.

Pensions at a Glance 2017 says that public spending on pensions for the OECD as a whole has risen by about 1.5% of GDP since 2000. However, the pace of spending growth is projected to slow substantially.

At the same time, recent reforms will lower the incomes of many future pensioners. People will live longer and to ensure a decent pension would have to postpone the age of retirement.

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Pensions at a Glance 2017

Source: OECD


ETF providers better bet than products they sell

December 5, 2017--BlackRock, State Street and Invesco have all outperformed the market.

Vast amounts of energy has been spent debating the merits of active stock picking versus low-cost tracker funds. The big news is that both sides have won, although possibly not quite in the way their advocates had envisaged.

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Source: FT.com


World Gold Council-Market update: Technology-a brighter outlook?

December 5, 2017--Changes are afoot in the technology sector. Smartphones are becoming increasingly powerful, electric and self-driving vehicles could revolutionise the automotive industry, and emerging nanotechnology could transform solar energy. All of this could have a positive impact on gold demand.

It may often go unnoticed, but gold is firmly embedded in everyday life. From smartphones to medical diagnostics, people rely on it day in, day out. The volume of gold used in technology, however, has dwindled in recent years, primarily because of thrifting and substitution in the electronics sector.

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Source: World Gold Council (WGC)


ETF Securities Weekly Flows Analysis-Record inflows into Robotics ETPs

December 4, 2017--Robotics-related ETPs saw inflows of US$51mn last week, the largest weekly inflow on record
US dollar long positions have seen outflows of US$40mn over the last two months
Agricultural ETPs saw outflows of US$40mn last week, focused on wheat and corn

Robotics-related ETPs saw inflows of US$ 51mn last week, the largest weekly inflow on record, bringing assets under management to over US$1bn for the first time. This follows a successful earnings season, and now that 92% have reported, we have seen earnings and sales break their 2015 highs after a period of weakness. From a quarter-on-quarter perspective the 3D printing sub-sector has been weak but this impact has been minimal with overall earnings having grown 17.7%, beating expectations by 12%. Valuations have remained static at 29x P/E, in-line with its long-term average relative to the MSCI World Tech sector.

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Source: etfsecurities.com


Morgan Stanley Undercuts Rivals With Robo

December 4, 2017-The wirehouse launches Access Investing service with a fee of 0.35% per year and a $5,000 account minimum

Targeting younger investors, Morgan Stanley has launched its online platform, Access Investing, with an annual fee below those of its wirehouse rivals.

At 0.35% of assets under management per year, the program fee comes in below the Merrill Edge Guided Investing robo service, which charges 0.45%, and Wells Fargo's Intuitive Investor offering, which has a 0.50% fee.

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Source: thinkadvisor.com


BetaShares-Gift that keeps on giving

December 3, 2017--Week in Review
Not even another North Korean missile could hurt markets last week, with Wall Street instead buoyed by the prospect of the US tax the tax cut. The Senate's final vote came after the market's close-so will likely be (yet another) positive tax story for markets on Monday.

Indeed, the slow moving tax cut saga is the "gift that keeps on giving" since there are many small hurdles that need to be overcome before the tax cut becomes a reality-with clearance of each hurdle seemingly a cause for celebration in its own right.

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Source: betashares.com.au


December 2017 BIS Quarterly Review: Paradoxical tightening echoes bond market "conundrum"

December 3, 2017--Markets shrugged off moves by some major central banks to wind back stimulus over the last quarter: global financial conditions paradoxically eased further amid heightened concerns about overvalued asset prices.

Continued low bond yields and low volatility, particularly in the United States, are reminiscent of the bond market "conundrum" referred to by former US Federal Reserve Chair Alan Greenspan in 2005, when market yields remained low despite Fed rate hikes.

Easier US financial conditions coincided with a decline in the term premia components of yields, or the extra return investors seek for holding a longer-term bond rather than shorter ones. For asset pricing, there are lingering uncertainties about how precisely this compression works over time, or how yields would react once central bank policies normalise.

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