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Horizons ETFs drops fee for municipal bond ETF

Horizons ETFs Management (Canada) and its affiliate, AlphaPro Management Inc., have reduced the management fee on the Horizons Active Cdn Municipal Bond ETF (HMP) Class E units. The fee has dropped to 0.29% from 0.35%, effective immediately. In parallel, HMP’s Advisor Class unit fee has also been reduced to 0.79% from 0.85%.

By Staff |February 7, 2017

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Vanguard launches 4 fixed-income ETFs in Canada

Vanguard Investments Canada Inc. has listed four new Canadian fixed income exchange-traded funds.

By Staff |February 7, 2017

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BMO AM to list ETFs on NEO

BMO Asset Management Inc. plans to list ETFs on the Aequitas NEO Exchange.

By Staff |February 7, 2017

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Manulife and Dimensional Fund Advisors to launch ETFs

Manulife Investments plans to launch a series of multifactor ETFs in partnership with Dimensional Fund Advisors Canada ULC (DFAC) as sub-advisor. The ETFs will seek to track indexes designed by DFAC’s parent company, Dimensional Fund Advisors LP, which uses a factor-based approach. Read: Fundata award winners announced Manulife’s planned launch includes four multifactor equity ETF […]

By Staff |February 2, 2017

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AGF launches ETFs, quant investing platform

AGF Investments has launched AGFiQ Asset Management (AGFiQ), a quantitative investment platform used to build portfolios for specific client needs. And the firm has also entered the Canadian ETF marketplace with seven new Quantshares ETFs, all of which are actively managed by AGFiQ using quantitative research. Read: Fundata award winners announced The new suite of […]

By Staff |January 30, 2017

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Alternate Health enters cannabis partnership for spring production

Vancouver’s Alternate Health expects to close its 30-year joint venture agreement with Alturas Native Band in early February 2017. The agreement supports the development, production, research and extraction of cannabidiols (CBDs) to create medicinal products in a production facility in California. Read: Echelon Wealth to advise medical cannabis producer The new facility will allow Alternate […]

By Staff |January 26, 2017

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5 new iShares ETFs now on TSX

Dynamic Funds and BlackRock Canada have launched five Dynamic iShares Active ETFs that began trading on the TSX Wednesday. The ETFs are: Read: Overvalued assets to avoid Read: Assets invested in U.S. ETFs and ETPs reach record high: ETFGI

By Staff |January 25, 2017

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Mackenzie adds to suite of ETFs and mutual funds

Mackenzie Investments is launching an emerging markets ETF and a mutual fund, both in partnership with TOBAM, an asset manager and index provider. The ETF and mutual fund give investors access to regional options with the potential to reduce risk concentration and market bias, and improve risk-adjusted returns in emerging markets securities, the firm says. […]

By Staff |January 23, 2017

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Product launch

Horizons ETFs drops fee for municipal bond ETF

Vanguard launches 4 fixed-income ETFs in Canada

BMO AM to list ETFs on NEO

Manulife and Dimensional Fund Advisors to launch ETFs

Invesco releases new series for 2 ETFs

NEO expands online brokerage network

AGF launches ETFs, quant investing platform

Alternate Health enters cannabis partnership for spring production

5 new iShares ETFs now on TSX

Mackenzie adds to suite of ETFs and mutual funds