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Total Asset

Total Asset is an online platform, providing content and information on innovation and strategy for funds and investors. Topic areas we look at include: Hedge funds, commodities, infrastructure, private equity, agriculture, emerging markets, asset allocation and ETF, quant, and fund of funds.

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IMC Trading

As one of the world’s leading market makers, IMC trades on more than 100 venues around the world and provides liquidity in more than 200,000 securities. Besides our on-screen market making in many asset classes globally, we are also a Designated Market Maker (DMM) on the New York Stock Exchange and our ETF desk in Europe leverages our experience, advanced technology and deep liquidity, to offer competitive pricing directly to qualified counterparties. Across offices in Amsterdam, Chicago and Sydney, global teams of technologists and traders work together to design and develop the software, hardware, advanced networks and algorithms that drive our trading strategies and make us one of the world’s leading liquidity providers. We hire exceptional, insatiably curious problem-solvers and challenge them to anticipate change and continuously innovate in ways that will sustain our success. We recognize, and reward, the best ideas regardless of hierarchy. At IMC, anyone can make an impact and everyone is encouraged to do so.

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Tradeweb

Tradeweb is a leading global marketplace for electronic fixed income, derivatives and ETF trading. Our focus since 1998, when we first introduced electronic trading for the U.S. Treasury Bond marketplace, has been to work with all industry participants to increase transparency, enhance access to liquidity and drive efficiency through the deployment of innovative technology and flexible protocols. Since then we have grown dramatically--expanding into more than 20 marketplaces and entering into the retail and inter-dealer businesses. Additionally, we offer a full range of trusted pre-trade pricing, post-trade processing and integration services to our global client base.

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ETF Provider

ETF is one of the world’s leading players in its field. The company specializes in the construction and maintenance of national railway networks, urban transport networks, and industrial sidings. The company’s broad range of technical expertise encompasses all railway works, including railway civil engineering, overhead contact lines, railway safety, power supply and signalling. Active both in France and abroad, ETF has contributed to the development of railway infrastructure in recent decades, including high-speed lines, concrete-bed rail tracks, metal- and rubber-wheeled tramway systems, and automated metro. ETF, filiale d’Eurovia (groupe VINCI), est un acteur de premier plan des travaux ferroviaires à l’échelle mondiale. L’entreprise est spécialisée dans la pose et la maintenance d’installations ferroviaires fixes sur les réseaux ferrés nationaux, les réseaux de transport urbain ainsi que sur les embranchements industriels. Cette palette de compétences complètes et fortement techniques couvrent les voies, les caténaires, la distribution d'énergie et la signalisation. At ETF, we consider our personnel to be one of our greatest assets. By joining us, you learn a professional occupation, acquire skills needed for success, and receive support in an effort to create a durable working relationship and promote our shared corporate values and culture. You can apply online : http://www.etf.fr/en Vous souhaitez nous rejoindre ? Toutes les candidatures doivent être déposées en ligne. Rendez-vous sur notre site internet www.etf.fr

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Index Mutual Funds vs ETFs

In previous videos, I’ve outlined how mutual funds and Exchange Traded Funds (or ETF’s) work. You might have noticed that index mutual funds and many ETF’s are very similar. So how do you choose which type of security is best for you? As with most things in personal finance, it will come down to your personal situation and preferences. In today’s episode, I’ll outline the differences between the two and in which cases you might want to use each. I’m Susan Daley and this is Your Money, Your Choices. From my videos on mutual funds, you might recall that most mutual funds are managed on an active basis. This means that there is a portfolio manager deciding which individual stock or bond should be purchased with the intent of outperforming the market. My colleague, Ben Felix, outlines why it’s so hard to beat the market in his video here. So let’s take active mutual funds out of the picture and only compare index mutual funds with ETF’s. In this video, I’m only discussing the differences in the structure of each type of fund, not their underlying investments. We can assume that the ETF and Mutual Fund are tracking the exact same index and are therefore investing in the exact same thing. One of the major benefits of mutual funds, especially for beginner investors, is the ability to set up automatic contributions. Research from Morningstar (which I’ve linked in the description below) shows that investors with automatic contributions tend to perform better. This makes sense for a couple of reasons. Firstly, you invest as soon as you have money available so your cash is invested longer compared to waiting for a lump sum. Second: with automatic contributions to your investments, you eliminate the primary cause of poor performance - bad timing. You can’t set up an automatic bi-weekly or monthly contribution into an ETF. Typically, there are no fees associated with your regular contribution into a mutual fund. However, if you’re buying an ETF on the market, you may have to pay your broker a transaction fee each time (typically around $10). If you want to make bi-weekly contributions, that’s $260 out of your pocket right there and time out of your day to make those trades! With any security you’re buying on an exchange, like the Toronto Stock Exchange, you also run into the implicit cost of the bid-ask spread. I explain what this is in my video “Implicit Fees when investing”. While this cost might be small, a few cents per share, it does add up over time when you purchase ETFs. Another benefit of mutual funds is the ability to purchase fractional units. Let’s say you’re contributing $350 bi-weekly into your investment account. With a mutual fund, if the current price is $12.36, you’ll buy 28.317 shares. Whereas with an ETF, you would buy 28 shares and have $3.92 cash leftover. With ETF’s, the management expense ratio only includes the fees to manage the investment fund whereas mutual funds may include embedded commissions, as I outlined in What Fees You Pay When Investing In Mutual Funds. The next differences between mutual funds and ETF’s comes down to how they are traded. Mutual funds are traded at the end of each day at their Net Asset Value (or NAV). Net Asset Value essentially takes the prices and proportions of each individual stock or bond within the fund and adds it up at the end of the day. This means that if you put in your trade at noon, it won’t be filled until the end of the day. The price you pay to purchase those mutual fund units isn’t what the price of the various securities were at noon, it’s what the securities’ closing prices are. Prices can be quite different at the end of the day compared to the beginning. However, if you’re investing for the long term, which I’d recommend if investing in equities, then this won’t make a huge difference in overall returns. Conversely, ETF’s are traded all throughout the day, so if you purchase the ETF at noon, and markets significantly rise or fall throughout the rest of the day, your noon price is locked in. ETF’s and Mutual Funds are also different when it comes to taxes and tax reporting. Mutual funds are structured in a way that requires the fund company to keep records for you. They have higher MER’s than ETF’s as a result but this record keeping may also save you time and frustration come tax-time if your investments are in non-registered taxable accounts. For the RRSP and TFSA investor, it won’t make much of a difference. That being said, ETF’s are inherently more tax efficient. So while their tax reporting may be more complex, the amount you have to pay as a result is likely lower. This is because mutual funds actually purchase and hold the individual securities. If a lot of people want to sell at the same time, the mutual fund will likely have to sell a bunch of securities to generate cash for the individuals selling, and potentially incur capital gains taxes. With ETF’s you mostly buy and sell from other exchange participants and the ETF provider doesn’t have to sell the underlying securities. Finally, there are some differences between mutual funds and ETF’s when it comes to transparency. ETF’s are generally more transparent as the individual security holdings are listed on the providers’ website, and updated daily. Mutual fund holdings only have to be listed quarterly. Those holdings could change significantly over the course of 3 months. If it’s an index mutual fund, there likely won’t be much difference between the holdings when compared to an ETF though. Do you feel there is a noticeable difference in your Index Mutual Funds or ETFs? I’d love to hear about it in the comments below. Make sure to subscribe to my channel for more videos, and don’t miss my previous episodes on ETFs and Mutual Funds, which I’ve linked in the description below. I’m Susan Daley, and this has been Your Money, Your Choices?

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Should Investors Be Worried About ETF Liquidity Risk?

Hi, I'm Aaron Fernstrom, Associate Director of the Mayo center for Asset Management, at the Darden School of Business. We're here from the 2017 Academic and Practitioner Symposium on ETFs and mutual funds. Here with us is Dr. Caitlin Dannhauser, Assistant Professor of Finance at the Villanova School of Business. And Dr. Dannhauser, should ETF investors be worried about liquidity risk? It's an interesting question Aaron, because as we've seen, ETFs have given investors access to markets and liquidity that has never existed in corporate bonds, but in a market that's historically renowned for being opaque and illiquid. However, in my paper I show that there's a bit of concern about this liquidity illusion, as Bill Gross called it. Because there's the potential that outflows coming from these new short term, trend chasing investors may amplify pace reactions. And that the yield spreads of corporate bonds increase, and then revert later-- indicative of a non-fundamental price move, or a flow induced yield pressure. We attribute this to impaired arbitrage, or the presence of these short term investors, not the index mandate of these funds. However, I think it's important to recognize that in a period of turmoil or stress, such as the one that we've studied-- the taper tantrum-- investors are desperate to reallocate and change their exposure to different factors in the economy. Corporate bonds, given the difficulty of being traded. It was very difficult to do so prior to the innovation ETFs. And therefore, I think from a regulatory and perhaps a societal question is, does this access to liquidity and the ability to change so quickly your exposure to an important market, does that outweigh any potential downsides that come from this yield amplification mechanism? I'm going to leave that to the regulators. But I think at least, hopefully our paper has raised a particularly important question. Thank you so much for being with us. Thank you for having me.

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Commodity ETFs explained | IG

Commodity ETFs are, well the official name for them is actually commodity ETCs, Exchange traded commodities. Which are essentially built to track a particular commodity such as gold for instance. The key element ETCs offer is diversification in your portfolio, they don't necessarily enhance returns but certain commodities have... for instance if you are a portfolio manager and you are very concerned about inflation, gold is typically known to be a good inflation hedge. So that's quite often the role it can perform, that and other than it's generally good for a portfolio to have diversification. Originally there were significant practical problems by investing in gold for instance. You would have to receive physical delivery, find somewhere to store it and that was very impractical, took a long time to execute the trades and deliver the product. The great thing about ETCs are, you can buy them on exchange, over the internet, over the phone and it's a trade that can be executed within minutes. That's the key advantage over originally having to invest in a direct physical product. ETCs have been performing poorly recently, there's been significant ...the primary reason why we see this poor performance is significant concerns about China and its economic growth. A very large proportion of the world's consumption roughly 40% of the world's consumption for commodities has been through China. So it's very important what China does and what the government does in China really has a big impact on commodities. Now there's been significant concerns about China's economic growth, expectations were 10 years ago for 10% growth and now expectations are for around 6.5% growth. Looking at some rather unusual or unconventional measures such as electricity consumption, you can see that in fact growth could even be around 4-5%, so it's much lower. That's been reflected in the commodities prices and we've seen substantial falls from the peaks, but our view going forward is actually that China's economic growth is probably set to plateau and government stimulus is set to be very strong towards 2020 mark. We're actually seeing an elevated level of consumption from the top 4 commodities for instance in China are growing at around 9% year on year. So whilst the market expectations are for that consumption to fall, it just hasn't happened. And for that and several other reasons, we believe that perhaps we're close to the floor in commodity prices. The ETC market is equally divided by United States and Europe and comprises of approximately $80bn but it reflects quite a small portion of the overall commodity investments. As an example, for instance, in gold, central bankers typically hold physicals so they don't need to own the ETCs directly.

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