indexuniverse.com - 10/9/2009
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Bond market, make room. The Securities and Exchange Commission has three new filings for bond exchange-traded funds at hand. Grail Advisors LLC has filed to launch yet another actively managed ETF, the RP Short Duration ETF. That comes just a day after the firm filed for two other active bond ...
securitiesdocket.com - 10/14/2009
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For the Securities and Exchange Commission, which operates
on a fiscal year that ends every September, Oct....
1, 2009, could not come soon enough. It seems almost beyond dispute that the agency’s fiscal 2009 was the most dismal in its history, and perhaps the most transformational. Now it ...
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Fiscal Year 2009: The SEC’s Year from Hell
securitiesdocket.com - 10/16/2009
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Here is the weekly summary for Securities Docket’s
Web Watch (”This Week’s Best Blog Posts and Columns”):...
FCPA … the “Law Version” of Baseball (FCPA Professor) FCPA Professor | October 16, 2009 The FCPA is quickly becoming the “law version” of baseball when ...
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401ks & Bond ETFs
Random Roger —
... On a different note IndexUniverse reported that iShares filed for a couple of new bond ETFs including the iShares 10+ Year Credit Bond Fund (CLY) which will tack an index that combines US Corporates and Yankee bonds. Yankee bonds are issued in other countries in US dollars. Depending on the issuer it is a way of offering stability to bond holders or effectively going short US dollars. FT Alphaville has had several posts recently about Germany issuing Yankee bonds. ...
iShares, Grail Expanding the ETF Bond Market
ETF Trends —
... : GLJ will track the long-term, investment-grade U.S. and corporate government bond markets. CLY will buy both U.S. corporate bonds and so-called Yankee bonds, which are dollar-denominated bonds issued by foreign companies and governments. Yankee bonds are linked to U.S. instead of foreign interest rates. Cinthia Murphy for Index Universe explains that there are three key reasons investors like Yankee bonds: Both funds will have an expense ratio of 0.2%. For more stories about bond ETFs, visit our ...
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