Puzzle Palace: What’s a Smart ETF Investor Supposed To…
In ETF News, Global Macro Strategy, People Profiles> By MarketsMuse Staff Reporter
If this week’s volatility has unnerved you, take a deep breathe, sit back and consider the following assessments courtesy of global macro strategy think tank Rareview Macro and extracts of this a.m. edition of “Sight Beyond Sight.” The Puzzle Today’s edition is not meant to be read as us preaching a gospel. Instead it is […] Read More

10 October, 2014

Wall Street Women On Top; 2014 Awards Go To…
In ETF News, People Profiles> By MarketsMuse Staff Reporter
Industry publication Traders Magazine announced last night the 2014 “Wall Street Women: Celebration of Excellence” Awards and recognized 19 of The Street’s Finest Gals across 19 categories, including top gun awards for leadership, mentorship and trading. Giving equal accolades to both buy-side and sell-side in the “most-watched” equities trading category, Blackrock’s Vivian Bakonyi, the firm’s”gal- […] Read More

9 October, 2014

Crude Oil-The Russian Calculus; Deciphering The Macro-Strategy Tea Leaves
In ETF News, Global Macro Strategy> By MarketsMuse Staff Reporter
Below commentary is courtesy of Oct 8 a.m. notes from macro-strategy think tank Rareview Macro LLC’s “Sight Beyond Sight” and is provided as a courtesy to MarketsMuse readers who embrace smart insight.  For those with interest in or exposure to the assortment of globally-focused ETFs across asset classes, we think you’ll welcome this content…If subscribing […] Read More

8 October, 2014

Now We Have an International IPO ETF…
In ETF News> By MarketsMuse Staff Reporter
CT – October 7, 2014 – Renaissance Capital LLC, a global IPO investment advisor providing institutional research, investment management and indexing services, announced today the launch of the Renaissance International IPO ETF, an exchange traded product that tracks an index of newly public international companies prior to their inclusion in core global equity portfolios. The […] Read More

7 October, 2014

Macro-Strategy Insight to Latest Events in Hong Kong and..”What…
In Global Macro Strategy, Strike Price> By MarketsMuse Staff Reporter
MarketsMuse Editorial Note: Below is extract from Oct 1 edition of macro-strategy commentary courtesy of Rareview Macro LLC’s daily publication “Sight Beyond Sight”..We often profile this content from macro strategy expert and author Neil Azous, simply because since we first started following SBS commentary, it has become one of those most highly-regarded independent research pieces […] Read More

2 October, 2014

ISE To Launch Another Options Exchange Platform
In Strike Price> By MarketsMuse Staff Reporter
Below courtesy of extract from Bloomberg LP 29 Sept reporting. International Securities Exchange Holdings Inc. applied to create its third U.S. options exchange, to be called ISE Mercury. ISE, a unit of Deutsche Boerse AG that already operates two options venues in the U.S., said the new venue’s structure, fees and products will be made […] Read More

30 September, 2014

This Morgan Stanley FA is the “Go-to-Guy” re ETFs..
In People Profiles> By MarketsMuse Staff Reporter
Below is courtesy of extract from ThinkAdvisor.com Sept 29 edition Search far and wide, but you’re unlikely to find many financial advisors as shrewd about investing with exchange-traded funds as Shelley Bergman, managing director-senior portfolio manager of The Bergman Group at Morgan Stanley on Fifth Avenue in New York City. Bergman was smart enough to […] Read More

29 September, 2014

Cycling For A Good Cause: Wall Street Vets Raise…
In People Profiles> By MarketsMuse Staff Reporter
MarketsMuse Editorial Team is proud to be the first media outlet to profile Sept 27 Boston #SoldierRide, a cycling-for-dollars event that raised more than $100k for Wounded Warriors. We extend a special commendation to Fidelity Investment PM Fergus Shiel (pictured on left) and Mischler Financial Group’s Head of Equities Joe Digiammo (pictured on right) for […] Read More

27 September, 2014

Do Bond ETFs Pose A Systematic Risk? Regulators Confused,…
In ETF News> By MarketsMuse Staff Reporter
Index fund managers are finding it challenging to ensure the bonds they need in the prices they want, driving them to make trade-offs that leave supervisors vulnerable in a market downturn and may hurt investors. Bond liquidity has all but dried up for corporate problems after new regulations and capital requirements compelled Wall Street banks […] Read More

25 September, 2014

Euro ETF firm backed by ex-iShares leader Kranefuss launches…
In ETF News, People Profiles> By MarketsMuse Staff Reporter
Below extract courtesy of Investmentnews.com and Trevor Hunnicutt An ambitious European ETF firm backed by former iShares leader Lee Kranefuss charged into the U.S. Tuesday, launching its first fund and throwing down the gauntlet to a “stale” industry. The firm, Source, is the seventh largest in Europe’s smaller ETF industry and 23rd globally. As it […] Read More

23 September, 2014

Former Sell-Side Trader Blows Whistle on NYSE Order Routing…
In Tech Talk> By MarketsMuse Staff Reporter
As recently reported by Automatedtrader.com, with below excerpt from Sept 21 New York Post, this is not the first we’ve heard about Wall Street whistle-blower Haim Bodek; its an update to claims of conflict he brought to the SEC and other regulators last year in connection with NYSE’s electronic order handling procedures that favor high-frequency […] Read More

21 September, 2014

9.7% YTD Return for Macro-Strategy Portfolio v Industry Avg…
In Global Macro Strategy> By MarketsMuse Staff Reporter
 MarketsMuse Editor Note: We tip our hat to the folks at Rareview Macro LLC, whose ‘sightings’ we have been allowed to cite courtesy of extracts from that global macro strategy think tank’s daily newsletter Sight Beyond Sight… Why? When eyeballing the 18 Sept edition, our staff noticed that Rareview’s model portfolio has, on a YTD […] Read More

19 September, 2014

Is KCG Cracking Up? More Key Executives Quit ETF…
In ETF News, People Profiles> By MarketsMuse Staff Reporter
As reported by various news outlets on Friday, KCG, the firm that was created last year via a “take-under” of former Knight Capital by HFT market-maker Getco Securities after Knight suffered a $460 million trading loss attributed to a technology snafu,  and whose business model somehow continues to pass the smell test by combining proprietary […] Read More

13 September, 2014

Step-Mom Hedge Fund Gal Gets Mixed Up in Bad…
In People Profiles> By MarketsMuse Staff Reporter
   MarketsMuse Editor Note: Below extract is courtesy of the HF Industry’s best read publication, FinAlternatives. Sep 10 2014 | 2:43pm ET A high-profile hedge fund manager is caught up in a nasty child custody battle in Georgia. Renee Haugerud, founder of the New York-based commodity-focused hedge fund Galtere, is embroiled in a dispute between […] Read More

11 September, 2014

ETF Execution and Algo’s: Bloomberg Says
In ETF News, Tech Talk> By MarketsMuse Staff Reporter
As electronic trading markets become more fragmented, the majority of large orders are executed via broker-provided execution algorithms. Typically, implementation shortfall trading algorithms are used to slice the parent order into many small ones and spread them out over the time horizon to minimize the slippage between average fill price and midquote of order entry, […] Read More

10 September, 2014

Brazilian ETFs take hit due to Moody’s Rating
In ETF News> By MarketsMuse Staff Reporter
etfmarketmuse post made possible through ETFTrends.com    The iShares MSCI Brazil Capped ETF (NYSEArca: EWZ) and other Brazilian ETFs have been enjoying a mostly excellent 2014, but that ebullience has encountered some resistance in recent days. Investors’ willingness to stick by EWZ and Brazilian stocks in the run-up to next month’s national elections is being tested Tuesday after Moody’s Investors Service lowered […] Read More

9 September, 2014

Hedge Fund Manager Blames HFT for Firm Closing
In Tech Talk> By MarketsMuse Staff Reporter
A hedge-fund manager says an unusual culprit contributed to his firm’s demise: high-frequency traders. Rinehart Capital Partners LLC, which had been backed by hedge-fund veteran Lee Ainslie and specialized in emerging-markets stock-picking, is closing, according to a letter viewed by The Wall Street Journal. In the letter, Rinehart founder Andrew Cunagin aligned himself with those […] Read More

6 September, 2014

Blind dedication to Loss Aversion secures AUM
In Global Macro Strategy> By MarketsMuse Staff Reporter
MarketMuse.com post made possible through FINalternatives.com and Neil Azous   The 2008 financial crisis exposed institutional money managers to a range of risks for which they were not prepared. Some of these were market risks, in which the value of their investments declined more than they had previously imagined possible. Some of these were liquidity […] Read More

5 September, 2014