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Study finds strength in options users

27 October 2015 Chicago
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Options users are passionate, active investors who are more likely to increase their options activity than their trading of either stocks or bonds over the next year, according to a new study by Harris Poll...

ETFs’ AUM nipping at the heels of mutual funds

27 October 2015 Jersey City
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Domestic assets under management for US exchange-traded funds have grown by 6.1 percent from August 2014 to 2015, according to a new Pershing report...

Solid as a BlackRock

26 October 2015 New York
Reporter: Drew Nicol

BlackRock’s Q3 securities lending revenue stood firm year over year but fell $32 million below the previous quarter...

China cuts interest rates…again

26 October 2015 Shanghai
Reporter: Drew Nicol

The People’s Bank of China has cut its one-year benchmark interest rate by 0.25 percent to 4.35 percent...

NSE to launch ETF products to boost liquidity

26 October 2015 Nairobi
Reporter: Drew Nicol

The Nairobi Securities Exchange is preparing to launch with exchange-traded fund and derivatives add-ons...

State Street sees sec finance revenue fall in Q3

23 October 2015 Massachusetts
Reporter: Drew Nicol

State Street’s securities finance revenue fell 27.1 percent in Q3, although it did beat the previous year’s results...

US sec lending dwarfs next nine markets combined

23 October 2015 New York
Reporter: Drew Nicol

The US securities lending market is nearly twice as big as the next nine largest markets combined, according to DataLend’s latest report...

Moody’s: Bond volatility affecting asset managers

23 October 2015 New York
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

Asset managers are becoming more exposed to disruption in secondary credit market liquidity as investment banks reduce their exposure to volatility in the bond markets, according to Moody’s Investors Service...