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FCA gets stricter on firms selling CFDs

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The Financial Conduct Authority is proposing stricter rules for firms selling contracts for difference (CFD) after finding 82% of retail customers in a sample lost money.  …

BlackRock to Make Index Changes to Two iShares Core ETFs in Early 2017

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… BlackRock currently offers small, mid and large capitalization equity ETFs using S&P Indexes as part of its iShares Core ETF lineup. The fund tickers will remain unchanged.  …

JP Morgan rejigs equity trading team

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… JP Morgan has made a series of promotions across its equities trading team following the recent appointment of Jason Sippel and Mark Leung as global co-heads of equities.  …

PassiveBeat: How to be dumb with smart beta

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… Smart and dumb are words thrown around in the investment industry almost as much as in politics, and …

SGX strengthens index business through partnership with S&P Global Market Intelligence

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The Singapore Exchange (SGX) has entered into an agreement … Global Market Intelligence (S&P GMI), an intelligence division of index provider S&P Global.  …

Female-focused robo-advisor Ellevest just raised $9 million from Venus Williams and other key investors

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The automated investment platform aimed at women closed its latest funding round after raising $9 million from investors including Venus Williams and Aspect Ventures, Finextra …

Pimco maps out ambitious Asia growth plans

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… While it may have been a turbulent couple of years for one of the world’s largest bond managers, Pimco has grand plans for its Asia business.  …

Millennials prefer ETFs, and it's all about cost

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… 60 percent of millennials say ETFs will be their primary investment in the future. For baby boomers it's just 19 percent.  …

Why ETFs are the new darlings of investment

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… Investors are pouring billions of pounds into exchange-traded funds, or ETFs, each month, making them one of the fastest-growing categories in investing. …

Industry welcomes SFC's promotion of Christina Choi

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… A veteran of Hong Kong's Securities and Futures Commision, Christina Choi will oversee investment products, in the culmination of a long-running saga.   …