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Creating Your White Label ETF: Mark Your Calender Sept 29

July 30, 2014 MarketsMuse Staff Reporter Leave a comment

Courtesy of ETFtrends.com and reporter Max Chen

Asset managers who want to dabble in the exchange traded fund space do not have to go it alone. Some of the most innovative ideas have been launched based on ETF service providers partnering with forward thinking managers.

Those who are thinking about putting their own strategy to work in an ETF wrapper can attend the upcoming ETF Boot Camp conference event that is slated for September 29 and 30 in New York City to hear from the largest ETF providers on how to foster relationships, the process for joining forces and the benefit of these partnerships. Seeking to grow their assets under management, small money managers are taking a closer look at ETFs. However, some are turning to so-called white label, or turnkey, ETF companies to build and launch an investment idea.

ETF issuers like Exchange Traded Concepts, ActiveETF Partners, Golden Gate Investment Consulting LLC, ALPS, AdvisorShares and ETF Issuer Solutions, among others, help go through the regulatory approval process, provide a board of directors and get an ETF listed on an exchange for $20,000 to $100,000 in startup costs.

For instance, some small hedge fund managers see ETFs as an ideal way to increase assets under management. Smaller funds typically find it harder to bring in large pension funds and institutions that target large hedge funds with billions in assets under management and long track records. As a result, more are beginning to look at ETFs as a way to market their investment strategies, targeting financial advisors and retail investors instead.

“A lot of people are surprised that there’s no one way to do it,” according to Golden Gate Investment Consulting. “There are as many different operating models as there are ETF sponsors — you can outsource or take in-house just about any function.”

For the entire story from ETFtrends.com, please visit http://www.etftrends.com/2014/07/the-white-label-avenue-to-launching-an-etf/

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AdvisorShares Peritus High Yield ETF ($HYLD) Lists Options On CBOE; First High Yield Actively-Managed ETF with Listed Options

December 31, 2012 MarketsMuse Staff Reporter Leave a comment

AdvisorShares, a leading sponsor of 17 actively managed exchange-traded funds (ETFs), announced today that the AdvisorShares Peritus High Yield ETF (NYSE Arca: HYLD), the first high yield actively-managed ETF has met listing requirements of the Chicago Board Options Exchange® (CBOE®) and that HYLD options are now listed for trading on the CBOE.

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Dennis Gartman is a Raging Bull..

December 14, 2012 MarketsMuse Staff Reporter Leave a comment

Courtesy of Olly Ludwig at IndexUniverse.com

Dennis Gartman is about as raging a bull as you can find these days. At a time when many investors remain beaten down in the volatile “risk-on/risk-off” aftermath of the crash of 2008, and uncertain about how high taxes will go in 2013, the editor of The Gartman Letter looks at rising crude and natural gas production in the U.S. and sees the makings of the most promising economic circumstances in a long time.

Gartman told IndexUniverse.com Managing Editor Olly Ludwig that he’s not exactly pleased about President Obama’s re-election, but that doesn’t mean he’s wallowing in pessimism about the goings on in Washington, D.C. He reckons that while it may take time and great effort, Democrats and Republicans will do the right thing and cut spending, even as the “leftist” president goes ahead and raises taxes on the wealthiest Americans.

In all his optimism, Gartman is also bullish on gold, but not in the way you might expect. He’s not buying gold because he thinks the economy is going to the dogs and that the Federal Reserve is unhinged. Rather, he says that Ben Bernanke’s Fed is doing a fine job, and that investors should buy gold with a weakening Japanese yen. What’s more, Gartman even has his name on a quartet of funds now in registration that will allow investors to own gold in yen, British pounds and euros.

Ludwig: Could gold end lower this year?

Gartman: No. It ended last year at $1,566 an ounce. The odds of it closing unchanged on the year, I think, are zero.

Ludwig: I ask because you don’t see gold going through the roof these days, in spite of what the Fed is doing to keep bond yields so low. It has been falling and is now around $1,700.

Gartman: Well, the Fed is buying $40 billion to $45 billion worth of securities every month, but we forget that they’re also allowing about $35 billion to $40 billion—if not more—to mature off on the back end. So the monetary base has actually not grown at all in the course of the last year.

Ludwig: So what is your general overview of how the Fed is performing?

Gartman: I think the Fed has done yeomen’s work since the autumn of 2008. Publicly, they’re very clear about buying securities on a regular basis; privately, they’re circumspect and quiet about allowing them to mature off. I think they have expanded all that they’ve wanted to. And I think they have done the right thing heretofore. Continue reading →

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A New ETF Managed By ‘Random Roger’

July 12, 2012 MarketsMuse Staff Reporter Leave a comment

Courtesy of Brendan Conway

Once upon a time, exchange-traded funds were simple index trackers. Nowadays you see the launch of products like the AdvisorShares Global Alpha & Beta ETF (RRGR).

This actively managed exchange-traded fund, which launched on NYSE Arca today, is built to reflect manager Roger Nusbaum’s ”tactical” and “global asset-allocation strategy (and his stock picks), with the aim of beating major indexes such as the S&P 500 and the Barclays Capital Aggregate Bond Index. It also has the unusual feature of buying and selling other ETFs. The “Random Roger” thing will be familiar if you’ve visited Nusbaum’s popular blog.

RRGR, which launched today on NYSE Arca, has a weighting of nearly 15% in the iShares Dow Jones U.S. Technology Sector Index Fund (IYW), 12% in cash, and 4% in the Vanguard Telecom Service ETF (VOX). HJ Heinz (HNZ), Kinder Morgan Emerging Partners (KMP) and Diageo PLC (DEO) are three of 11 stocks and ETFs that carry a 3% weighting, according to AdvisorShares. The yield will be around 3%, also according to AdvisorShares.

There have been predictions that actively managed ETFs are the next big thing. So far, though, the deepest inroads have been made in actively managed bond funds. Bill Gross’ Pimco Total Return ETF (BOND), just a few months old, is already the biggest actively managed ETF by assets. But the biggest equity ETF by assets isn’t a conventional equity ETF at all — it’s the $325 million AdvisorShares Active Bear ETF (HDGE), a short-selling strategy.

The new ETF has a net expense ratio of 1.40%, according to AdvisorShares’ website. Nor is it the first ETF to buy and sell other ETFs — AdvisorShares already has some of those.

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NYSE Backs Payments for ETF Market Makers; Incentives To Street For Providing Liquidity

May 4, 2012 MarketsMuse Staff Reporter Leave a comment

Reporting courtesy of James Armstrong/Traders Mag.

Following a similar proposal by Nasdaq OMX, NYSE Euronext has unveiled a plan to allow market makers to get paid for providing liquidity for exchange-traded funds. If approved, the plan could reduce the number of funds listed without lead market makers.

On April 27, NYSE formally asked the Securities and Exchange Commission to authorize a pilot program that would add incentives for firms that become LMMs. Under the proposal, issuers would be allowed to pay an additional $10,000 to $40,000 per year to attract market makers.

Bryan Johanson, managing director for global index and exchange-traded products at NYSE Euronext, said firms have been increasingly reluctant about becoming LMMs, and the exchange wanted to offer an additional incentive to attract market makers to that role.

Under the NYSE plan, issuers could pay an optional quarterly incentive fee to the exchange, which would then use that money to distribute credits to LMMs that meet minimum performance standards.Johanson said the exchange discussed the matter with market makers and found that around $10,000 to $40,000 was the level at which they started to consider taking on new exchange-traded products.

“We didn’t want this to be overly burdensome for the issuers,” Johanson said. “We tried to balance their interests with the market makers so we could come up with a figure that was appropriate and fair.”

A Financial Industry Regulatory Authority rule prohibits payments for market making, but NYSE argues this rule applies to securities of individual companies, not to exchange-traded products. Continue reading →