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Fundamentals – Rate Hike Pressure Should Ease: Long-term fundamentals, in particular, around interest rate expectations once rates are raised, should support gold. We believe that as the impact of the Federal Reserve’s initial rate hike dissipates later in the year,…

The spectacular rise of the local Shanghai equity market — collectively known as the A-shares China market — and its dramatic 30% fall in three weeks has many observers painting the broad Chinese equity market as a stereotypical bubble.[1]…

Year To Date 2015 in brief: European Smart beta ETF market flows are still positive in the second quarter of 2015, but growth has decelerated compared to Q1 2015. NET NEW ASSETS (NNA) year to date (30/06/2015) amounted to ….

With the final numbers for the second quarter of 2015 now available, the research firm ETFGI brought some long-anticipated news: the size of the exchange traded funds market has finally exceeded that of its older, more well-to-do cousins.  It may have taken…

Assets invested in the global ETF/ETP industry have surpassed the assets invested in the hedge fund industry at the end of Q2 as we had forecasted…

With Greece’s survival in the EU extended, and Greek banks partially opening today cyclical assets rallied. However, banking restrictions remain after being shut for three weeks and the ECB has injected €900m worth of fresh liquidity taking the country’s emergency…