The drive to protect incompetent traders continues: U.S. prosecutors have joined regulators’ investigation into whether some high-speed traders are manipulating markets by posting and immediately canceling waves of rapid-fire orders, two officials said. Justice Department …
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MAPF Portfolio Composition: April 2011
Turnover declined dramatically in April, to about 4%. Now that the portfolio has repositioned itself to account for OSFI’s refusal to grandfather extant Tier 1 Capital, we are back to the slow trading of positions …
April 29, 2011
Elections have consequences! The TMX Group Inc.’ s plan to merge with London Stock Exchange Group Plc wouldn’t get federal government approval if Jack Layton has any say — and polls say that the New …
April 28, 2011
Nothing happened today. It was a mixed day for the Canadian preferred share market, with PerpetualDiscounts losing 4bp, FixedResets up 10bp and DeemedRetractibles gaining 41bp. The Performance Highlights table was comprised entirely of strongly performing …
April 27, 2011
The FOMC Statement did not contain any major surprises: Information received since the Federal Open Market Committee met in March indicates that the economic recovery is proceeding at a moderate pace and overall conditions in …
April 26, 2011
The market is anticipating European sovereign default: Yields on government securities from Greece, Ireland and Portugal reached records amid speculation the heavily indebted nations won’t be able to avoid restructuring. Ireland’s two-year yield reached a …
WFS.PR.A Annual Report 2010
World Financial Split Corp. has released its Annual Report to December 31, 2010. WFS / WFS.PR.A Performance Instrument OneYear ThreeYears FiveYears Whole Unit -7.70% -10.89% -6.53% WFS -49.49% -42.44% -29.39% WFS.PR.A +5.35% +5.35% +5.35% MSCI …
April 25, 2011
Nothing happened today. It was an uneventful day on the Canadian preferred share market, with PerpetualDiscounts gaining 4bp, FixedResets off 4bp and DeemedRetractibles up 3bp. There wasn’t a single entry for the Performance Highlights table; …
April 21, 2011
There’s a hot new investment product being flogged in Somalia – piracy futures: Piracy syndicates are selling shares in planned attacks, fueled by a surge of ransom payments that help attract investors, the U.S. Chief …
PSF.UN: Unusual Benchmarking! Nice Fees!
Preferred Share Investment Trust was mentioned previously on PrefBlog, in the post Catapult Financial Offering Actively-Managed Preferred Share Trust. I haven’t paid much attention to it since, because the name is something of a misnomer …