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'Access, Clarity, Confidence': 280 CapMarkets Heads Strategic Initiatives, Transforms Fixed Income Through Technology
Friday, May 15, 2020 - 11:08am | 736Read More...Alongside the COVID-19 coronavirus, financial markets experienced a historic liquidation, with demand across many non-correlated assets plummeting. The resulting economic fallout and market inefficiencies leveled the playing field, turning the attention to newer, more nimble, technology-focused...
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Fixed Income With A Twist: How 280 CapMarkets Leverages Cloud Tech To Increase Bond Market Transparency
Thursday, September 12, 2019 - 9:55am | 794Read More...In an interview with Benzinga, Gurinder Ahluwalia, co-founder and CEO at 280 CapMarkets, a fintech for bond markets, discussed increasing access and transparency in the fixed-income trading space. The What Founded in 2016, 280 CapMarkets is a tech solution for the fixed-income markets that started...
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'Doing The Impossible': FREĠNAN Leverages AI, Small Data To Produce Trading Insights
Monday, August 19, 2019 - 11:26am | 535Read More...FREĠNAN, an artificial intelligence-driven investment research tool, leverages small data to create industry-leading financial models and risk assessments, CEO Vince Julier told Benzinga in an interview. About The CEO Julier, a director and founder at FREĠNAN, worked in commercial...
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BlackRock's Larry Fink Tells CNBC He Sees Lack Of 'Good Assets'
Tuesday, April 16, 2019 - 4:05pm | 363Read More...Global equities ended 2018 down by 13 percent and have rebounded around 11 percent, implying that the market environment is different today than it was at the end of last year, BlackRock, Inc. (NYSE: BLK) CEO Larry Fink said on CNBC's "Squawk Box" segment Tuesday after the...
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Convertible Collection: A Different Fixed-Income ETF
Tuesday, September 5, 2017 - 8:26am | 520Read More...Investors looking to add some spice their fixed-income portfolios, particularly during rising interest rate environments, can consider convertible bonds. Convertibles are hybrid securities because they are bonds with embedded options that allow investors to convert the bonds into equity in the...
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Millennials Like These ETFs
Thursday, August 10, 2017 - 8:15am | 590Read More...As has been widely documented, exchange-traded funds are on a torrid pace of asset gathering this year. Through the first seven months of 2017, U.S.-listed ETFs added $191 billion in new assets, easily positioning the asset class to topple the inflows record set in 2016. And as has been previously...
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An Inexpensive Bond ETF For August
Wednesday, August 2, 2017 - 8:20am | 474Read More...Fixed-income exchange-traded funds set a blistering pace of asset gathering in the first half of 2017, easily positioning the asset class to top 2016's record inflows. Bond ETFs' torrid asset-gathering acumen this year comes even as the Federal Reserve has raised interest rates twice with...
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An Active Idea For Income And Yield
Friday, May 5, 2017 - 9:03am | 512Read More...With the possibility of another interest rate hike or two looming in the United States and negative interest rates still lingering in other parts of the developed world, the fixed income landscape is trying investors that are searching for income. A growing number of exchange-traded funds allow...
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Another ETF Avenue For Fighting Inflation
Wednesday, October 19, 2016 - 8:18am | 605Read More...Treasury Inflation Protected Securities, or TIPS, and the corresponding exchange-traded funds have been a hot asset class this year. Inflation is an increasingly important topic for the Federal Reserve, and investors have been pouring billions of dollars into fixed income exchange-traded funds....
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A Conservative Approach To Bond ETFs
Thursday, October 13, 2016 - 2:38pm | 559Read More...Many fixed income investments are viewed as conservative, but in today's potentially turbulent bond markets, it does not hurt to get some assistance. The SPDR DoubleLine Total Return Tactical ETF (NYSE: TOTL) is an exchange-traded fund that can do just that. Taking On TOTL TOTL, Jeff Gundlach...
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Demand For Bond ETFs Seen As A Positive
Thursday, October 6, 2016 - 3:52pm | 535Read More...Fixed income is one of the hottest corners of the exchange-traded funds industry this year, a trend some market observers believe will continue, particularly as professional investors look for more liquid alternatives to individual bonds. Bond ETFs “While bonds do not trade on an exchange,...
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Bond ETF Boom Still In Early Innings
Thursday, September 22, 2016 - 11:37am | 613Read More...Advisors and investors are piling into fixed income exchange-traded funds this year, a trend that is expected to continue in the coming years as more institutional investors turn to bond ETFs. Through the first half of 2016, about $40 billion flowed into bond ETFs, with approximately half of that...
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JPMorgan Adds A Junk Bond ETF
Friday, September 16, 2016 - 9:36am | 430Read More...JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM)'s J.P. Morgan Asset Management unit added its second new exchange-traded fund this week with the debut of the firm's first fixed income ETF on Thursday. The JPMorgan Disciplined High Yield ETF (NYSE: JPHY) is actively managed. JPHY holds only dollar-...
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Why Would Anyone Buy A Negative Yielding Bond? Simple: To Earn A Profit
Friday, September 9, 2016 - 3:07pm | 377Read More...Money managers who may be required to allocate a certain portion of cash in fixed income investments are faced with a simple problem: There are few opportunities where bond yields are attractive, let alone yielding a positive return. According to a CNBC report, large fund managers, such as...
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An Alternative To The Usual Boring Bond ETF
Thursday, July 14, 2016 - 1:00pm | 553Read More...Fixed income exchange-traded funds are providing investors with plenty of excitement this year, most of it good, but the usual view of bond funds, particularly those holding U.S. Treasurys, is that these are boring instruments. Boring can be beautiful. The returns offered by a number of bond ETFs...
