Add One More Options Exchange To Your Menu-Its About…
In Strike Price> By MarketsMuse Staff Reporter
MarketsMuse options market update courtesy of extract from our friends at MarketsMedia LLC and their profile of yet another proposed options exchange with yet another “rebate” scheme intended to capture market share in the very competitive world of order routing. International Securities Exchange will have its ISE Mercury exchange ready for trading by the end […] Read More

5 March, 2015

What’s Next? Celeb Investment-Manager Licenses NextShares in Bid to…
In ETF News, People Profiles> By MarketsMuse Staff Reporter
MarketsMuse update courtesy of below extract from Institutional Investor’s profile of Mario Gabelli and his investment vehicle GAMCO’s foray into the actively-managed ETF fracas. Now that exchange-traded funds are a better fit for active managers, Mario Gabelli is signing on. The seasoned investor — who eschews index funds — says he can’t afford to miss […] Read More

4 March, 2015

Bond ETFs Are Growing At Fastest Pace On Record
In ETF News, Fixed Income> By MarketsMuse Staff Reporter
MarketMuse update profiles the billions of dollars that have flowed into bond ETFs over the past few years and an in depth look at the reasoning behind it courtesy of the Wall Street Journal . Institutions are piling into exchange-traded bond funds at the fastest pace on record, driven by forces reshaping the increasingly illiquid corporate-debt […] Read More

3 March, 2015

Nuveen, Now Under TIAA-CREF Umbrella Takes On ETF Issuers..Again
In ETF News> By MarketsMuse Staff Reporter
Nuveen, known as one of the exchange-traded-fund industry’s first pioneers is back, and now they’re loaded for bear with a fresh angle courtesy of parent company TIAA-CREF. Courtesy of InvestmentNew.com, here’s the long and the short of the Nuveen’s reincarnation:  Nuveen Investments Inc. is rebooting a campaign that may culminate in the firm offering its […] Read More

3 March, 2015

Investors Use of Corporate Bond ETFs On The Rise
In ETF News, Fixed Income> By MarketsMuse Staff Reporter
MarketsMuse.com blog update courtesy of press release from Tabb Group and profiles new research report focused on institutional investors’ growing use of corporate bond ETFs. NEW YORK & LONDON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–In new research examining accelerating growth in the corporate bond exchange-traded fund (ETF) market, which has seen assets under management (AuM) rise more than $90 billion […] Read More

2 March, 2015

New Rules: SEC Set to Level Playing Field for…
In ETF News, Fixed Income> By MarketsMuse Staff Reporter
Are you beginning to wonder why there is an avalanche of news stories profiling corporate bond ETFs? As we’ve posted here at MarketsMuse.com, one good reason might be rising concerns that when interest rates tick up and bond prices tick down, there could be a rush to the exits on the part of investment managers […] Read More

2 March, 2015

How One Smart Prop Shop is Trading Oil ETFs
In ETF News, People Profiles> By MarketsMuse Staff Reporter
MarketsMuse blog update courtesy of extract from 27 Feb story from ETF.com’s Elisabeth Kashner and her profile of prop trading firm Virtu, the high-frequency (HFT)“Virtu’s HFT Way To Play Crazy Oil Market”   Would you ever sell something to yourself and pay someone else to be the middleman? Nobody’s that dumb, right? Virtu, the high-frequency […] Read More

2 March, 2015

Corporate Bond ETFs and Liquidity: A Looming Black Swan…
In ETF News, Fixed Income> By MarketsMuse Staff Reporter
MarketsMuse update inspired by yesterday’s column by Tom Lydon/ETFtrends.com and smacks at the heart of what certain “bomb throwers” believe could be a Black Swan event, albeit an event that may not be driven by a global crisis or surprise economic event. The event in question will, in theory, take place when interest rates start […] Read More

27 February, 2015

Leveraged ETFs Chapter 12: Levered and Lightly Levered: Which…
In ETF News> By MarketsMuse Staff Reporter
MarketsMuse update courtesy of extract from Olly Ludwig’s ETF.com profile of Direxion Shares’ latest levered product. Continuing in the direction of embracing RIAs, Direxion is hoping the latest incarnation will further innovate and provide investment advisors with a new tool. Here’s the opening from ETF.com’s profile…. Just when you thought that the leveraged ETF niche […] Read More

27 February, 2015

Cancer Treatment ETF Surges In Past Few Days
In ETF News> By MarketsMuse Staff Reporter
MarketMuse update courtesy of extract from Todd Shriber’s latest piece at ETFTrends.  Shares of Pharmacyclics (NasdaqGS: PCYC), a maker of cancer treatments, surged nearly 17% Wednesday, extending a run that has seen the stock surge 80.1% this year, on news that the California-based company is mulling a sale. Citing unidentified sources, Bloombergreports that Dow component Johnson […] Read More

26 February, 2015

Global Macro: Can You Say Eurozone?
In Global Macro Strategy> By MarketsMuse Staff Reporter
MarketsMuse.com update courtesy of extract from a.m. edition of “Sight Beyond Sight”, one of the most widely-followed industry newsletters courtesy of global macro strategy ‘think tank’ Rareview Macro LLC. Today is About the Forest…Not a Tree Market Watchers & Worker Bees Risk Takers L/S Hedge Funds (Dumb Money) vs. Long Only Funds & Retail (Smart […] Read More

26 February, 2015

China ETFs Seeming More Like The Year Of The…
In ETF News> By MarketsMuse Staff Reporter
MarketMuse update courtesy of ETFTrends’ Todd Shriber looking at China related ETFs.  In the Chinese zodiac, 2015 is the year of the goat, but a popular exchange traded fund tracking China’s onshore equities is getting bearish treatment. The Deutsche X-trackers Harvest CSI 300 China A-Shares ETF (NYSEArca: ASHR), the largest U.S-listed A-shares ETF, had 6.3% of its […] Read More

25 February, 2015

Interest in Buyside-Only Equity Trading Platforms Gains Traction..Again..
In Tech Talk> By MarketsMuse Staff Reporter
MarketsMuse update courtesy of extract from Pension & Investments Feb 23 edition, with story reported by Sophie Baker …MM Editor Note: The notion of buyside-only electronic trading venues for institutional equities (i.e. block trading) is not a new one. Graybeards who have been around for more than 15 minutes will say “First came Instinet, then […] Read More

24 February, 2015

Bond Guru Gundlach Launches Actively-Traded Bond ETF
In ETF News, Fixed Income, People Profiles> By MarketsMuse Staff Reporter
MarketsMuse update profiling the debut of bond guru and DoubleLine Capital’s founder Jeff Gundlach’s first foray into the ETF space is courtesy of ETF.com.The SPDR DoubleLine Total Return Tactical ETF (TOTL) is launching today (Tuesday, Feb. 24). The $TOTL exchange-traded fund invests in just about every type of debt security, including investment-grade and junk debt—both […] Read More

24 February, 2015

And The Winner of “World’s Fastest Growing Asset Class”…
In Fixed Income, Global Macro Strategy> By MarketsMuse Staff Reporter
Below is courtesy of Feb 23 commentary from “Quigley’s Corner”, aka debt capital market observations from Mischler Financial Group’s Head of Fixed Income Syndicate, Ron Quigley. Mischler Financial Group is also an award winner; a panel of industry judges assembled by financial industry publication Wall Street Letter voted to award the firm “WSL 2015 Award […] Read More

23 February, 2015

Market Manipulation or Rapid Fire Trading? Regulators Eye Spoofing
In Tech Talk> By MarketsMuse Staff Reporter
MarketsMuse update courtesy of Feb 21 WSJ story by Bradley Hope One June morning in 2012, a college dropout whom securities traders call “The Russian” logged on to his computer and began trading Brent-crude futures on a London exchange from his skyscraper office in Chicago. Over six hours, Igor Oystacher ’s computer sent roughly 23,000 […] Read More

23 February, 2015

J.P. Morgan War On Hacking Boosts ETF $ HACK
In ETF News> By MarketsMuse Staff Reporter
MarketMuse update courtesy of Yahoo Finance from ETF Trends.  Earlier in the week, MarketMuse profiled cyber security ETFs recent boost and today, Brokerdealer.com profiled how J.P. Morgan’s war on cyber security is costing bankers’ jobs, so it only seemed fitting that MarketMuse combine to two subjects for today’s MarketMuse post. Since the threat of cyber security doesn’t seem to be going […] Read More

20 February, 2015

Should You Have An All-ETF Portfolio? Betterment CEO Has…
In ETF News> By MarketsMuse Staff Reporter
MarketMuse update is courtesy of CNBC. CEO and Founder of Betterment , Jon Stein, offered his commentary on this issue to CNBC. Betterment is an automated investing service that provides optimized investment returns for individual, IRA, Roth IRA & rollover 401(k) accounts. There’s a natural progression in the way the public responds to innovation. Something that first […] Read More

19 February, 2015