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• Financial Institution Pricing Data

  Benchmarking Mortgage Lending – Delivering Value to Members

  By John Sayre 16 Apr 2021

  Joined by ACUMA and special guest Cory Bland of Navy Federal Credit Union, our FBX mortgage experts discuss how important it is for Credit Unions to affirm their value proposition to their Members. We explore how benchmarking your lending performance can provide insights across functional areas. Do you know if you are priced competitively and if your Application-to-Funding times are optimal? Let’s find out!

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• EPFR - fund flow & allocations data

  Quants Corner - Collective Investment Trusts: the latest wrinkle in fund time

  By Vikram Srimurthy 15 Apr 2021

  EPFR currently tracks over 133,400 shares classes offered by mutual, ETF, hedge funds and other vehicles that encompass over $46 trillion worth of assets. A small but rapidly growing part of this universe is occupied by Collective Investment Trusts, better known by the acronym CIT. Like ETFs and mutual funds, CITs are pooled investment vehicles. Unlike ETFs and mutual funds, CITs are not regulated by the SEC and not open to retail investors (though they can get access through qualified retirement plans). For providers, this lighter regulatory touch means that CITs are easier to open, have smaller compliance burdens and – often – charge lower fees. One of those providers describe CITs as “combining the cost savings of a separately managed institutional account with the convenience of a mutual fund.” Read more...

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• IGM FX and Rates

  IGM Insights

  By Jonathan Cavenagh 15 Apr 2021

  IGM Insights | Thursday, 15th April 2021   - FX – Seasonality yet to favor EM FX in April - Emerging – Rouble risks remain in Q2 - China – Foreign inflows into China onshore bonds fall - Majors – Euro's allure stuttering - Long term FX Majors & Rates forecasts

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