The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has announced that the Morgan Stanley Smith Barney unit of investment bank Morgan Stanley (NYSE:MS) has agreed to pay an $8 million penalty and admit wrongdoing to settle charges related to single inverse ETF investments it recommended to advisory clients. The SEC’s order finds that Morgan Stanley did not…
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In recent years, the market in exchange-traded funds (ETFs) has grown rapidly, both in Europe and globally. In a study of the French ETF market, the AMF analyses this growth’s consequences on market liquidity and stability. Under the influence of investors searching for yield and low-cost products, the ETF market has grown significantly, with global…
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ETFGI, the independent research and consultancy firm on trends in the global ETF/ETP ecosystem, just reported assets invested in ETFs/ETPs listed globally reached a new record high of US$3.689 trillion at the end January 2017 surpassing the prior record of US$3.546 trillion set at the end of December 2016. ETFs/ETPs gathered a record level of…
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