wrong way first trade global macro

2016-Global Macro-The Wrong Way First Trade
In ETF News, Fixed Income, Global Macro Strategy, Strike Price> By MarketsMuse Curator
You don’t need to be a MarketsMuse or a global macro guru (or any other type of pundit) to know that professional financial market traders are only as good as their last best trade. In that spirit, we look to the 2016 outlook and spotlight on the Wrong Way First (WWF) Trade courtesy of Rareview […] Read More

3 January, 2016
HEDJ

European ETF Strategy Unraveling
In ETF News, Global Macro Strategy> By MarketsMuse Curator
(Bloomberg) — A European stock trade that deployed the use of ETF products as a means of hedging currency exposure is one that enamored global investors throughout 2015 and drew more money than practically anything else in equities is blowing up in people’s faces. As the moves in the the WisdomTree Europe Hedged Equity Fund (NYSE:HEDJ) […] Read More

30 December, 2015
blythe masters

Babe of Investment Banking Now Babe of Blockchain?
In People Profiles, Tech Talk> By MarketsMuse Curator
Blythe Masters, once considered the “Babe of Investment Banking” in view of her long tenure and celebrity senior role at JPMorgan—which included her being credited for helping to create those snarkly financial derivative products known as credit default swaps (CDS), has since aspired to become known as either the “Blockchain Batgirl” or the “Babe of […] Read More

29 December, 2015
cantor fitzgerald finra

Cantor Fitzgerald Gets $7.3mil Spanking From FINRA
In ETF News, People Profiles> By MarketsMuse Curator
(BrokerDealer.com)- The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) has given a $7.3mil spanking to broker Cantor Fitzgerald  consisting of a $6 million fine and an order to pay $1.3 million for commissions, plus interest, it received from selling billions of unregistered microcap shares in violation of federal law in 2011 and 2012. In addition to its […] Read More

22 December, 2015
BOJ ETF plan

BOJ ¥300 Billion Plan to Buy Nonexistent ETFs
In ETF News> By MarketsMuse Curator
BOJ ¥300bil plan to support “companies investing in physical and human capital” via high cap-ex indices is missing one ingredient: the high cap-ex ETF investment vehicles. (Bloomberg) by Yuko Takeo-Bank of Japan Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda has a new plan. He’s going to buy ¥300 billion ($2.5 billion) of something that doesn’t exist. Markets were roiled […] Read More

21 December, 2015
dealindex crowdfund industry

CNBC Trumps Bloomberg In Crowdfund Industry Indices
In Global Macro Strategy, Tech Talk> By MarketsMuse Curator
(RaiseMoney.com) The Equity Crowdfund Industry continues to go mainstream, as evidenced by this week’s market data and index intel pact signed between business news platform CNBC and DealIndex, a self-described “global deal and data aggregator for the best crowdfunding opportunities.”  The deal will have the two firms launching four equity crowdfunding indices that provide metrics […] Read More

18 December, 2015
fintech senahill

FinTech Thought Leadership-Sizzle Reels Sell
In Tech Talk> By MarketsMuse Curator
Being a fintech thought-leader is ‘non-trivial’ as they say in the software world, but expressing vision, domain fluency and passion is arguably the first step that any aspiring thought leader, or for that matter, any already-established banker who navigates the deal world of Wall Street and surrounding areas needs to master–before believing that you can […] Read More

14 December, 2015
european etf

European ETFs Displace Futures Products
In ETF News, Global Macro Strategy> By MarketsMuse Curator
(MarketsMedia) European ETFs and ETPs have gathered record net new assets in the first 11 months of this year, in many cases using as a displace to futures products. ETF Issuer BlackRock expects the size of Europe’s exchange-traded product market to double over the next three to four years. ETFs/ETPs listed in Europe had gathered $72.6bn […] Read More

14 December, 2015
leveraged ETFs

The Big Short: Leveraged ETFs, By David Miller
In ETF News, Global Macro Strategy, People Profiles> By MarketsMuse Curator
The Big Short is coming to a theater near you soon, but the hedge fund industry’s cool kid of the year David Miller has traded ahead of his peers by exploiting and being short of the popular ETF industry product: leveraged ETFs  and “inverse ETFs”; products that are typically powered by futures contracts so as […] Read More

14 December, 2015
global macro stock conflagration

Global Macro Guru: Simmering Stock Conflagration?
In Global Macro Strategy> By MarketsMuse Curator
MarketsMuse Global Macro curators, like many across the hedge fund complex, have attempted to decipher an investment thesis that can prove itself without being hijacked by short-term volatility. Deflation, Inflation, Oil, the Dollar and bets being made in advance of the Fed’s widely-expected interest rate adjustment are talking point ingredients that are potentially leading to […] Read More

8 December, 2015
BATS ETF exchange

BATS Scoring New Listing Runs Via Payment To ETF…
In ETF News> By MarketsMuse Curator
(ETF.com)-BATS Global Markets has been aggressively taking on well-established NYSE and Nasdaq exchanges in the battle for ETF listings.  MarketsMuse.com ETF news curators found the BATS exchange is apparently scoring runs via new listings courtesy of paying ETF Issuers to list their products vs. the old-school exchange model that has Issuers paying an exchange an […] Read More

4 December, 2015
cryptocurrency

Goldman Sachs Wants Patent To Settle Trades in Bitcoin…
In Tech Talk> By MarketsMuse Curator
(TradersMagazine) Trading settlement and clearing could go the way of bitcoin, as white glove bulge bracket brokerdealer Goldman Sachs and fintech aficiondo has filed a patent for technology to settle securities in the cyber cryptocurrency. As first reported in Bitcoin Magazine on November 19, the United States Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) published Goldman, Sachs & […] Read More

4 December, 2015
zuckerberg pledge

FB Zuckerberg Donates 99 Percent of Shares To Charity…
In People Profiles> By MarketsMuse Curator
Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg (who needs no further introduction) and his wife Priscilla are celebrating the birth of their first child ( a girl named Max) by announcing that he and his wife will move 99% of their shares in Facebook (NYSE:FB) to a charitable trust. For those without a calculator, that’s $45bil of net worth […] Read More

1 December, 2015
crowdfund etf

Yes, Now an ETF for Crowdfund Industry
In ETF News> By MarketsMuse Curator
MarketsMuse followers who noticed our June 29 2015 post “What’s Next? ETFs for Crowdfunding?”  and our curator’s somewhat parody-centric, but now prescient view that someone in the ETF world would soon come up with a crowdfund industry exchange-traded product can now share this post with others–as that prediction has come to fruition. Per brief blurb […] Read More

1 December, 2015
bond etf liquidity

Calling for Clarity: Corporate Bond ETF Liquidity
In ETF News> By MarketsMuse Curator
There continues to be a call for clarity with regard to the topic of corporate bond ETF liquidity and where/how corporate bond ETFs add or detract within the context of investors ability to get ‘best execution’ when secondary market trade in underlying corporate bonds is increasingly ‘illiquid.’ This not only a big agenda item for […] Read More

1 December, 2015
hedge fund etf

Hedge Fund ETF Pile On Leads To Crowd Control…
In ETF News, People Profiles> By MarketsMuse Curator
A pile on approach is impacting hedge fund emulator ETF products (e.g. $GURU, $ALFA), and leading to crowd control issues, according to a recent Bloomberg article re-distributed via TradersMagazine story with title: Hedge Fund-Replicating ETFs Hurt by Crowded Trade Selloff MarketsMuse curators carry the story here.. (Bloomberg) — Exchange-traded funds designed to mimic the strategies […] Read More

25 November, 2015
top fintech bankers

Institutional Investor’s Top-Ranked FinTech Bankers Include…
In People Profiles, Tech Talk> By MarketsMuse Curator
Institutional Investor Magazine has recently announced the world’s top 35 FinTech Bankers, and… As astutely noted by Institutional Investor Magazine’s Senior Editor Jeffrey Kutler, “The origin of the term “fintech” is difficult to pinpoint; only very recently has it become an accepted label for one of the hottest segments of the technology market. The availability […] Read More

18 November, 2015
USD long trade

Global Macro-Dollars and Donuts-The Long USD Trade
In Global Macro Strategy> By MarketsMuse Curator
MarketsMuse Global Macro curators credited with metaphoric title “Dollars and Donuts”–a phrase many of those who trade on institutional desks should appreciate…Snippet below is courtesy of a.m. edition of institutional research unbundler SubstantiveResearch.com Neil Azous from Rareview Macro writes that for all attention being devoted to the equity market at the moment, the biggest sensitivity […] Read More

18 November, 2015