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Fintech Focus For December 29, 2020
Monday, December 28, 2020 - 6:26pm | 1852Quote To Start The Day: “[T]his has actually been a phenomenal year for fixed income, and yields have plummeted, which is not all that phenomenal. But it has led to phenomenal returns for investors. But with yields now really at these very, very low levels across the curves and across the...
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Fintech Focus For October 23, 2020
Thursday, October 22, 2020 - 7:11pm | 2440Quote Of The Day: Do not be mistaken. The relative calm we feel right now isn’t the end of the storm, it is just the eye. - Scott Minerd Fintech Movers: Decentralised finance (DeFi) is now being taken seriously by traditional finance. In a European-wide survey of financial institutions...
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Fintech Focus For August 4, 2020
Tuesday, August 4, 2020 - 11:09am | 2800Daily Perspective: Don’t count the days, make the days count. - Muhammad Ali Fintech Movers: In Latin America, women are stepping up as fintech leaders, with five times as many female-founded fintechs as the global average. - Crunchbase Quantamental investment strategy shines. Virtu...
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Franklin Templeton's LibertyShares Launches Active Core Bond ETF
Saturday, September 21, 2019 - 4:34pm | 466LibertyShares, Franklin Templeton's brand of exchange traded funds, added to its lineup of fixed-income funds this week with the debut of the Franklin Liberty U.S. Core Bond ETF (NYSE: FLCB). What Happened The new Franklin Liberty U.S. Core Bond ETF can be used as an alternative to...
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Franklin Templeton Adds 3 Smart Beta ETFs
Monday, May 1, 2017 - 9:49am | 394The universe of smart beta exchange-traded funds is getting bigger thanks to the addition of three new ETFs from Franklin Templeton. Franklin Templeton introduced four smart or strategic beta ETFs last year and the issuer also offers four actively managed ETFs, giving it an ETF lineup of 11. FLQL...
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Fund Manager Franklin Templeton Bets On Higher Oil Prices
Wednesday, June 22, 2016 - 11:06am | 327Franklin Templeton Investments, which has $740 billion in assets under management, has been making some big bets that the oil rally is far from over. WTI prices, which dipped near $26/bbl in February, have recovered to around $50/bbl in recent weeks. However, Franklin Templeton believes that prices...
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World's Fifth-Largest Closed-End Fund Lists On London Stock Exchange
Thursday, April 30, 2015 - 11:35am | 404Closed-end fund issues GDRs as activist investor creates ‘unusual' conditions Romania's $3.2 billion Fondul Proprietatea (LSE:FP), the world's fifth-largest closed-end fund, has launched a secondary listing on the specialist fund market of the London Stock Exchange (LSE)...
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Falling Yen is Biggest Risk to South Korea ETF
Monday, April 29, 2013 - 12:43pm | 656The bad news, part of the bad news anyway, is that the iShares MSCI South Korea Capped Index Fund (NYSE: EWY) is down 12.5 percent year-to-date. That makes EWY, one of the largest country-specific emerging markets ETFs by assets with over $3.26 billion, a laggard among funds tracking emerging Asian...
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South Africa: Profits And Peril
Friday, October 12, 2012 - 8:32am | 760South Africa's investment thesis is bifurcated. On one hand, this is Africa's largest economy and by far the most advanced. The country is the world's largest platinum producer and a major producer of gold and palladium. South Africa's ascent up the global economic ladder has prompted some...
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Mark Mobius Says China Property will Withstand Curbs
Wednesday, April 21, 2010 - 3:28pm | 366Mark Mobius, executive chairman at Templeton, is looking to buy Chinese property stocks on further declines, and said, “demand for housing in China will withstand government bank lending curbs,” according to Bloomberg. “Recent policy changes on property and mortgages were introduced with the...