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(New York)

We wanted to write an article about a new fund we discovered in our regular course of business, but that got us excited. One of our gripes with ETFs is that there always seems to be a dearth of ways to express short-term tactical opportunities, or own a fund that does so. That is why we were excited to find a fund in New York Life’s IndexIQ ETF lineup. The fund, the IQ Merger Arbitrage ETF (MNA), seeks to gain capital appreciation by buying companies that have had public takeover announcements. The fund also includes a short on global equities as a partial hedge. Merger arbitrage is a common hedge fund strategy.

FINSUM: This is one of those area where we often wish we had exposure, but don’t have the time to actually enact a strategy, so this IndexIQ fund is very useful. The fund has a 75 basis point expense ratio.

(New York)

Talk about a mega merger. In a deal with huge regulatory implications, T-Mobile announced an acquisition of Sprint for $26.5 bn. The deal would be all stock, and is a bet that the 3rd and 4th largest mobile providers in the US can team up to create a rival to the leading players, AT&T and Verizon. The two companies, which are owned by Deutsche Telekom and SoftGroup, respectively, tried to merge 5 months ago, but the deal collapsed.

FINSUM: This is a big play to capture the next generation of data, or 5G, which is being heralded as a sort of holy grail for mobile providers.