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FT Portfolios Canada Co. Announces Unitholder Approval of Merger Proposal

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… FT Portfolios Canada Co. (the “ Manager ”), the manager of First Trust AlphaDEX™ Canadian Dividend ETF (“ FDY ”) … announce that at a special meeting held today unitholders of FDY approved a proposal that will result in the merger of … exchange-traded fund managed by the Manager, in order to combine FDY and FST into one Canadian equity exchange-traded …

AGF Changes Risk Rating of QuantShares Global Equity Rotation ETF

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… Inc. (“AGF”) (TSX:AGF.B) is changing the risk rating of QuantShares Global Equity Rotation ETF (the “QGL ETF”) … from “low-to-medium” to “medium”. This change results from compliance with the Canadian Securities Administrators’ … Methodology, which became effective on September 1, 2017.  Previously, AGF followed a risk classification …

Active Alts Contrarian ETF (SQZZ) rang the NASDAQ Closing Bell to Celebrate Being the First Active ETF of Its Kind

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… strategy is to seek capital appreciation by purchasing companies that it believes are subject to a short squeeze. … managed by Strategy Shares, who already has a solid history of sub advising and raising funds for Active ETF products. This fund, which began trading on NASDAQ in March of this year, brings hedge fund level expertise to investors …

Bloomberg Investment Summit 2018

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… session: 14:50 – 15:30 Panel Discussion. What is the future of Asset Allocation? Outlook for Asset Allocation, in the … Guillemin, Independent consultant and member, Investment Committee for the State of Freiburg Lionel Balle, Head of our Competence Center …

State Street Enhances ESG Products with New Data and Analytics Offerings

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… (NYSE:STT) today announced it has enhanced its portfolio of environmental, social and governance (ESG) offerings with the launch of ESGXSM, a new analytics tool … agreements with new data providers, including Arabesque, to complement its existing agreement with TruValue Labs, …

Record iShares growth as investors embrace ETFs at fastest pace ever

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BlackRock Inc.’s iShares business expanded at its fastest pace ever, collecting a record $246 billion in new flows, taking the global ETF industry … as the shift to fee-based wealth management encouraged use of low-cost portfolio funds. iShares fixed income ETFs …

UBS launched a new socially conscious investment strategy focused on LGBT employment equality

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…   UBS announced the launch of the InsightShares LGBT Employment Equality ETF, the first in the series of ETFs issued under the "InsightShares" brand. This … The index was designed to track the price movements of U.S. companies that provide LGBT equality through their company …

Mylo raises $2.5M in seed round

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…   Mylo Financial Technologies announced it has closed $2 million CAD of seed funding. The funding round included participation by … to let Canadians start investing with less than $1, automatically investing their spare change into a personalized, …

Hang Seng Indexes Launches Hang Seng SCHK New Economy Index

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… Economy Index. The index aims to reflect the performance of companies available for southbound trading under the Stock … The universe of the new index covers securities from 29 sub-sectors, including Automobiles, Telecommunication …

Survey conducted by Horizons ETF showed bullish sentiment on Cannabis industry

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… equities, U.S. equities and Cannabis, as well as a number of other industry benchmarks, according to the Q1 2018 Advisor Sentiment Survey conducted by Horizons ETFs. … A budding sector upon which advisors have become dramatically more bullish is the Canadian Cannabis industry. Almost …