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BlackRock to combine active equity capabilities, create real assets group
January 12, 2016--BlackRock is to combine its active equity capabilities as part of a significant organisational shake-up, including the creation of a real assets group, that will take effect next month.
Portfolio manager positions will be unaffected by the changes.
The new active equities platform will group fundamental and quant equity capabilities in a single unit.
Source: IP&E
IMF Working paper-Introducing a New Broad-based Index of Financial Development
January 12, 2016--Summary: There is a vast body of literature estimating the impact of financial development on economic growth, inequality, and economic stability.
A typical empirical study approximates financial development with either one of two measures of financial depth-the ratio of private credit to GDP or stock market capitalization to GDP. However,, these indicators do not take into account the complex multidimensional nature of financial development. The contribution of this paper is to create nine indices that summarize how developed financial institutions and financial markets are in terms of their depth, access, and efficiency. These indices are then aggregated into an overall index of financial development. With the coverage of 183 countries on annual frequency between 1980 and 2013, the database should offer a useful analytical tool for researchers and policy makers.
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Source: IMF
Infographic-How Normal Investors Can Use the Same Strategies as Hedge Funds
"It involved a partnership structure, a percentage-of-profits compensation arrangement for Ben as general partner, a number of limited partners and a variety of long and short positions," Buffett's letter says. view
Source: visualcapitalist.com
Source appoints six country heads to spearhead increased presence in Europe
As Source has continued to invest and expand its business across the Continent, the coverage team has grown dramatically and is now nearly 30 individuals, representing a third of Source's total employees.
Source: Source
Bowie: The Man Who Sold Royalties and Brought Music to Bonds
The man behind "The Man Who Sold the World" was the first recording artist to go to Wall Street to tap the future earnings of his music, paving the way for a thriving market for esoteric securities backed by everything from racehorse stud rights to commercial washing machines.
Source: Bloomberg
ETFs/ETPs listed globally have gathered a record 372.0 billion US dollars in net new assets in 2015, according to ETFGI
December marked the 23rd consecutive month of positive net inflows and was the best month for asset gathering in 2015 with US$55.0 billion in net new assets collected, according to preliminary data from ETFGI's year-end 2015 global ETF and ETP industry insights report.
Source: ETFGI
Infographic-The World's Most Valuable Substances by Weight
However, sometimes substances are nearly impossible to produce in the first place-and that means that it can be extremely difficult for the market to respond to increases in demand. The world's most valuable substances generally fall into this category, and this makes their value per gram very high.
Source: visualcapitalist.com
As China Dumps Treasuries, World Sees No Better Place for Refuge
It might be easy to conclude China's unprecedented retreat from Treasuries is bad news for America.
Source: Bloomberg
Few commodity traders saw improved liquidity in 2015-poll
In comments submitted along with the poll, most traders blamed poor liquidity on the exodus of banks from commodity markets and new regulatory regimes such as the US Dodd-Frank Act and the European Market Infrastructure Regulation (Emir).
Source: risk.net
The $6 million bet against emerging markets
"The largest trade in the options market today was in the EEM, the emerging markets ETF," RiskReversal.com's Dan Nathan said Thursday, when one trader bought 100,000 of the June 25-strike puts in EEM for 62 cents per share.
Source: CNBC.com
January 12, 2016--In a Warren Buffett note from 2006, he credits the famous value investor Benjamin Graham as the co-creator of the first-ever hedge fund in the mid-1920s.
January 11, 2016--Source, one of the largest providers of Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) in Europe, is excited to announce that it is realigning the responsibilities of its coverage team to better service the needs of its investors across Europe.
January 11, 2016--Performer was first to securitize future earnings from songs
'Space Oddity' musician died Sunday from cancer at age 69.
January 11, 2016--The global ETFs/ETPs industry is celebrating gathering a record level of US$372.0 billion in net new assets in 2015 which represents a 10% increase over the prior record of US$338.3 billion of net new assets gathered in 2014.
January 11, 2016--In the field of economics, the laws of supply and demand state that the price of a product and its available supply to the market are interconnected. For example, if a good such as crude oil is produced in excess, the price will drop accordingly.
January 10, 2016--Threat of global turmoil will boost demand for U.S. bonds
State Street, BlackRock see Treasuries support as China slows
Three-quarters say OTC liquidity held steady or fell last year, while 25% saw gains
January 8, 2016--About three-quarters of traders surveyed in a Risk.net poll say liquidity in over-the-counter commodity derivatives markets held steady or declined over the past 12 months, with only about a quarter saying the liquidity picture had improved.
January 8, 2016--On a week filled with China concerns and market turmoil, one trader is making a massive bet that it's going to get a lot worse for emerging markets.
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