CalSTRS dumps firearm investments
2012 gun massacres prompt pension fund's move.
- January 10, 2013 September 13, 2019
- 09:32
2012 gun massacres prompt pension fund's move.
GIC keynote to address the biggest risks of the next decade.
Gold exchange-traded funds are finding a new niche in the world’s second biggest pension market—Japan. Japanese pension funds are turning in greater numbers to gold, especially as they seek to counter the effects of the financial crisis and the brutal toll the 2011 tsunami took on the Japanese economy.
Where were the best and worst places to put your money in 2012? In this article, ETF Database calls out the best and worst of the country exchange-traded funds for the year. It provides some important insights into what happened during the year—the good, the bad and the ugly of the political and economic news that drove market returns throughout 2012.
If the latest figures about the exchange-traded fund (ETF) industry are to be believed, investors are putting aside their worries and are instead showing some holiday cheer about the state of the world. To show their joy (and their renewed appetite for risk), they’re loading up on stocks.
Market makers are paramount to an exchange-traded fund's (ETF) success. Without their support, new products simply shrivel up and die. So if liquidity is the main reason you’re buying ETFs, then it’s best to know (and understand) the many players in the ecosystem that make the market move.
In the eyes of many regulators, exchange-traded funds (ETFs) are seen as interlopers in the investment world. ETFs have been the subject of studies and speeches blaming them for all forms of market distortions, malfunctions and outright crashes. But there are signs that the ice is melting and that regulators are slowly but surely warming up to ETFs. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission finally approved the use of derivatives for active ETFs, which rely on manager skill to outperform rather than just passively tracking an underlying index.
Post-2008, investors have been turning away from shaky U.S. and European debt markets and turning to developing countries as they hunt for better yields and returns. What they’re beginning to realize is that big part of the emerging markets bond story is currency: local currencies in some emerging markets countries have been appreciating dramatically against the U.S. dollar, creating big returns for investors. Buy the same bonds in U.S. dollars, however, and those currency returns are washed away.
Pension fund heads to Hong Kong.
When liquidity is king, plan sponsors must understand how exchange-traded fund (ETF) trading dynamics within an ETF work. ETF trading dynamics can have a big impact on costs, according to a research paper released in October by the Investment Trading Group. The research looks at 12 popular ETFs and reveals that all of them exhibit different characteristics when it comes to liquidity and costs. It all boils down to the limit order book.