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ERI Scientific Beta Defensive Strategies: Bringing Diversification to, and Going Beyond, Traditional Approaches
August 8, 2016--While defensive strategies are designed to lower exposure to market risk so as to provide relative downside protection in bear markets, they have also returned sterling risk-adjusted performance over the long term, challenging the Capital Asset Pricing Model's central prediction of a linear relationship between market risk and return.
In a research publication entitled "ERI Scientific Beta Defensive Strategies: Bringing Diversification to, and Going Beyond, Traditional Approaches", we review improved forms of traditional defensive strategies and an Adaptive Defensive Solution through the use of smart factor indices.
Source: ERI Scientific Beta
ETF Securities Weekly Flows Analysis-Long oil ETP inflows at a 17 month year high
August 8, 2016--Investors injected US$113mn into long oil ETPs suggesting they expect current price weakness to be
temporary.
Sterling on the other hand is likely to remain weak for longer as the Bank of England cut the Bank Rate to a new record low and expanded its stimulus package by another £170bn.
While investors continue to pile into gold ETPs, robotics and cybersecurity ETPs are gaining traction.
Source: ETF Securities
Has Bitcoin Replaced Gold As The New Safe Haven?
August 6, 2016--A couple of years ago, I was lucky enough to be given the opportunity to coach a high school debate team.
One of the first things that those smart kids learned when it came to attacking an opponent's case was to, where appropriate, point out that correlation does not necessarily equal causation. Just because two things happen at the same time doesn't mean they are related. Sometimes, though, even if evidence is scant, the logical case for causation can be strong enough to be noteworthy.
Source: Nasdaq.com
Commodities attract biggest bets since 2009
August 5, 2016--New money combined with rising prices push total commodity assets under management to $235bn.
Source: FT.com
Europe's investment banks sharply underperform US rivals
August 5, 2016--Second-quarter results continue a trend that has seen the Americans strengthen their dominance.
Source: FT.com
Infographic-How Fintech is Digitally Disrupting the Financial World
August 3, 2016--The market for fintech, or financial technology software, was one of the hottest sectors in 2015.
The time is ripe for financial innovation: new technologies are helping end users skip past gatekeepers and intermediaries to customize their use of financial products. Meanwhile, many of the same technologies are also erasing the inefficiencies of banks and other financial institutions to cut costs in ways the industry never deemed possible. Lastly, innovations such as the blockchain are changing the way banks approach their most basic mechanisms-as a result, even the most fundamental practices in banking are evolving.
Source: visualcapitalist.com
Gold near 2016 high on haven demand
August 3, 2016--Exchange traded funds' holdings of bullion at highest level since July 2013
Source: FT.com
World Gold Council-Market Update: Failed monetary policies lift gold
August 3, 2016--Gold has outperformed most asset classes
Analysts are scrambling to increase their gold price forecasts, as the gold price continues to rise, outperforming all major asset classes.
A weak Japanese bond auction on August 2nd unnerved markets, pushing the gold price up 29% for the year in US dollar terms.
Source: World Gold Council
STOXX-Pulse Online-Thematic Investing: Capturing the Big Changes
August 3, 2016--Thematic investing is a relatively new development in modern portfolio management. It has gained momentum in recent years in line with the disruptive power of innovation and emerging macroeconomic trends that are shaping the world at a pace augmented by the mass economy, technology and globalization.
The identification of megatrends that may significantly outgrow the standard economic and business cycles is carving a place and setting new approaches in asset management, as investors seek superior returns. Thematic investing aims to capture those future trends at the earliest possible stage of development, and build a portfolio of securities and assets that can benefit the most from those success stories of the next few years.
Source: STOXX
State Street To Shutter 12 ETFs
August 3, 2016--State Street Global Advisors (SSgA), the third-largest U.S. issuer of exchange-traded funds, said it is closing 12 of its ETFs.
Eight of the ETFs SSgA will close are international funds, while three are US-focused fixed income ETFs. The remaining one is the SPDR SSGA Risk Aware ETF (SSgA Active ETF Trust (NYSE: RORO)), which debuted nearly two years ago and has just $2 million in assets under management.
Source: CNN
