Global ETF News Older than One Year
Millennials Prefer Human Financial Advisers
September 21, 2017--A majority of young investors believe human advisers can generate a better ROI than robo-advisers, a recent survey finds.
A poll commissioned by the loan refinancing firm LendEDU found that 46.41% of Millennials who are currently saving for retirement use a human financial adviser as opposed to only 24.30% who use a robo-adviser.
In fact, 61.68% of respondents who don't use an automated adviser say they’ve never heard of one, possibly giving light to an underserved market in the financial services industry.
Source: planadviser.com
World Gold Council-Gold Investor, September 2017
September 20, 2017--Gold's fear trade intensifies on debt and equity risk
Global debt levels have reached unprecedented levels, pension deficits are rising and the US interest rate cycle is on the turn.
Frank Holmes, chief executive of highly regarded investment management group US Global Investors, believes that investing in gold is a logical response to current, unnerving conditions.
Source: World Gold Council (WGC)
FAQs on Basel III definition of capital published by the Basel Committee
September 19, 2017--The European Banking Authority (EBA) launched today a public consultation on its discussion paper on significant risk transfer in securitisation.
This work builds on the EBA's monitoring activity of supervisory practices in the area of significant risk transfer, which the Authority started in 2014 with the publication of the EBA Guidelines on this topic. The discussion paper aims at seeking stakeholders' views on how to further harmonise the regulation and supervision of the risk transfer through securitisation. The EBA's proposals are based on the newly agreed European securitisation legislation.
Source: European Banking Authority (EBA)
IMF Working paper-Indexing Structural Distortion: Sectoral Productivity, Structural Change and Growth
September 19, 2017--Summary:
This paper proposes a new index of sectoral labor distortion using employment and value added shares. We show that this index is highly correlated with growth both crosssectionally and over time.
We also use it to compare the degree of distortion among countries and identify sectors where the potential payoffs in terms of growth from reforms could be large. The regression analysis in the paper shows that education and various structural reforms have potential to improve the efficiency of sectoral labor allocation.
Source: IMF
ULTUMUS-Feminist Canadian ETF-Ahoy Me Hearties
September 19, 2017--Canada gets feminist and anti-hacker ETFs
It's a big day of listings in Canada, the biggest we've seen at the Daily ETF Monitor in some months.
Canadian issuer Evolve is bringing gender diversity (HERS) and cyber security ETFs (CYBR) to the land of moose and maple syrup.
CYBR will track a Solactive index of cyber security. HERS will track companies that have "demonstrated a commitment to gender diversity as part of their corporate responsibility strategy," says the index factsheet. Both ETFs charge 0.55%...
Cyber security and gender diversity ETFs already exist in the US and Japan. In a result that may disappoint but not surprise feminists, cyber security ETFs have proved the more popular of the two. HACK, the American cyber security tracker by ETF Managers Group, has collected more than $1.1bn since its launch in 2015...
Toronto-based First Asset is listing a new actively managed ETF, the First Asset Cambridge Global Dividend ETF (FCW)...
USA
A truly global ETF
Virtus ETF solutions has listed a new actively managed ETF on NYSE that will try to beat global equity markets while managing risk. The Global Factor Opportunities ETF (VGFO) will invest in companies from at least three different countries at once...
Korea
Another new leveraged oil ETN
Korea has many leveraged oil ETNs, but Samsung is set to list another. The Samsung Inverse 2X WTI Crude Oil Futures ETN (530036) will give double the inverse performance of the spot price of WTI crude oil and further enable speculators to gamble on oil prices....
Source: ULTUMUS-Financial Data Management
The Eurekahedge Report-September 2017
September 19, 2017--Hedge funds were up 5.12% year-to-date, registering performance-based gains of US$58.5 billion while seeing net asset inflows of US$81.9 billion as of 2017 year-to-date. Total hedge fund assets grew by US$140.45 billion over the past eight months with the industry's total assets currently standing at US$2.37 trillion.
In what is turning out to be the best year in terms of investor allocations since 2013, arbitrage, long/short equities and CTA/managed future strategies led in terms of net flows attracting with US$14.6 billion, US$13.7 billion and US$12.6 billion respectively as of 2017 year-to-date.
Source: eurekahedge.com
ETFGI reports assets invested in Smart Beta equity ETFs/ETPs listed globally have increased 18.3% in 2017 to reach a new record of US$630 Bn at the end of August 2017
September 19, 2017--ETFGI,a leading independent research and consultancy firm on trends in the global ETF/ETP ecosystem,reported today that assets invested in Smart Beta equity ETFs/ETPs listed globally have increased 18.3% in the first 8 months of the year,reaching a new record of US$630 Bn at the end of August 2017,according to ETFGI's August 2017 global smart beta equity ETF and ETP industry insights report an annual paid for research subscription service.
Record levels of assets were reached at the end of August for equity smart beta ETFs/ETPs listed globally with US$630.39 Bn, in the United States with US$559.41 Bn, in Europe with US$46.46 Bn, in Canada with US$14.99 Bn and in Asia Pacific (ex-Japan) with US$5.72 Bn.
Source: ETFGI
ETFGI reports assets invested in Active ETFs and ETPs listed globally have increased 40.9 percent in 2017 to reach a new record of 61 billion US dollars at the end of August
September 19, 2017--ETFGI, a leading independent research and consultancy firm on trends in the global ETF and ETP ecosystem, reported today that assets invested in Active ETFs and ETPs listed globally have increase 40.9% in the first 8 months of the year to reach a new record of US$61 Bn at the end of August 2017, according to ETFGI's August 2017 Active ETF and ETP industry insights report an annual paid for research subscription service.
Record levels of assets were reached at the end of August for active ETFs and ETPs listed globally with US$61.10 Bn, US$39.60 Bn in the United States, US$9.51 Bn in Canada, US$8.11 Bn in Europe and US$3.79 Bn in Asia Pacific (ex-Japan).
Source: ETFGI
Hedge funds bet on bright future for metals
September 19, 2017--Hedge fund investment in the metals industry is at its highest since 2011, according to investment data, a sign that investors are hoping to profit from a rise in prices that have spent years in the doldrums.
The investment by hedge funds follows a broader inflow of money into industrial metals, where prices are rising after production cutbacks helped to reduce a supply glut.
Source: Reuters
RI Interview: Mark Wilson, CEO of Aviva Plc, launches the World Benchmarking Alliance for sustainability
September 18, 2017--Aviva chief kicks off one of the world's biggest open-source sustainability data and ranking projects.
Mark Wilson, Chief Executive Officer of Aviva, the London-based global insurer, may not be the most popular man amongst un-enlightened executive peers by the end of this week, but it will be for the good of serious corporate comparison on sustainability.
Source: responsible-investor.com
