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S&P BDC Index Launched by S&P Dow Jones Indices

New Index Licensed to Nikko Asset Management for Tracker Fund Creation in Japan
February 3, 2014--S&P Dow Jones Indices, one of the world's leading providers of financial market indices, today announced that it has launched the S&P Business Development Company (BDC) Index and licensed it to Nikko Asset Management to launch a tracker fund in Japan.

The Index is comprised of U.S.-listed private equity firms that invest equity and debt capital in small and mid-sized businesses, allowing investors to measure a growing industry specialty within the financial sector.

Drawn from the S&P United States BMI universe, the S&P BDC Index is modified float-adjusted market cap-weighted. Modifications are made to market cap weights, if required, to reflect available float, while applying a single stock cap of 10% to mitigate over-concentration in a few components. To qualify for membership in this Index, a stock must be a publicly traded company with a Business Development Company structure, as specified in SEC filings, and listed on the NYSE (including NYSE Arca), the NYSE MKT, the NASDAQ Global Select Market, the NASDAQ Select Market or the NASDAQ Capital Market.

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Source: S&P Dow Jones Indices


ETF takes up 20 pct of main bourse's trading volume

February 2, 2014--South Korea's exchange-traded funds (ETFs) took up nearly 20 percent of the main bourse's trading volume in 2013, data showed Sunday, apparently as investors sought after safer investment destinations.

The average daily trading volume of ETFs came to 792.5 billion won (US$739 million) last year, accounting for 19.3 percent of the 3.9 trillion won by the main bourse, according to the data compiled by the Korea Exchange (KRX).

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Source: Global Post


Economic survey: Experts want financial inquiry to beef up consumer protection

Economists also see no role for banks in wealth management
February 1, 2014--David Murray's financial system inquiry should examine ways to beef up consumer protection and improve disclosure standards for retail investors, some of the country's top economists say.

As part of BusinessDay's economic survey, our panel of experts was asked to nominate what they thought should be the top recommendations of this year's review of finance, to be led by Mr Murray, a former Commonwealth Bank boss.

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Source: The Sydney Morning Herald


S&P Dow Jones Indices' Market Attributes: Index Dashboard Asia Pacific

January 31, 2014--This month's highlight's include:
The Asian equity markets are materially down on the month, fixed income markets marginally up.
Financials had a poor month and dragged major benchmarks down across the region. The Energy and Telecoms sectors were also laggards in January.

The Fed failed to surprise markets with a second $10bn per month reduction in U.S. quantitative easing. Focus turned to EM currencies, the Russian Rouble and Turkish Lira in particular, as a disorderly rout in a selective few EM currencies followed.

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Source: S&P Dow Jones Indices


ASIC releases report on regulating complex products

January 31, 2014--With financial products and markets continually growing in complexity, ASIC has reviewed its approach to regulating complex products.

Today ASIC has published Report 384 Regulating complex products (REP 384) about its review. REP 384:
outlines the risks posed by complex products to retail investors
sets out ASIC's recent and current work on complex products, including considering the whole of the product lifecycle-development, distribution, sale, and post-sale, and

identifies opportunities for further work, including working with industry, where appropriate.

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Source: ASIC


China leads big drop in Asia ETF inflows

January 31, 2014--The Asia exchange-traded fund market, excluding Japan, suffered a sharp drop in inflows in 2013, with some of the top ETF providers in China worst hit.

Industry participants say market conditions, which go hand-in-hand and with ETF flows in the region, were unfavourable, weighing on investor sentiment.

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Source: FT.com


Onshore liquidity crunch to undermine China credit

January 30, 2014--The market for Chinese credits is likely to remain under pressure from rising bond supply and risk of corporate defaults.

These are the side effects from the cyclical deterioration in the mainland's borrowing conditions that result from a more constrained financial sector.

In the short term, market risks will be dominated by tighter financial conditions-reduced availability and higher cost of credit-which results in financial sector deleveraging, according to a Morgan Stanley report.

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Source: Financial Asia


India fights inflation with surprise rate rise

Reserve Bank of India increases interest rates by 25 basis points in a bid to ease inflation
January 28, 2014--India's central bank unexpectedly increased interest rates on Tuesday, in a move to tackle stubbornly high inflation.

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) raised interest rates by 25 basis points to 8pc, its third rise since its new governor Raghuram Rajan took office in September.

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Source: The Telegraph


DB-Synthetic Equity & Index Strategy -Asia-Pac Weekly ETF Market Review - China ETFs record inflows, Japan saw outflows

January 28, 2014--Data in this report is as of 24 January 2014.
Market Review
Last week,all the major markets in the Asia-Pacific region remained in negative territory except China. Compared to the week before,from north to south:
Japan (Nikkei 225) -2.18%
South Korea (KOSPI2) -0.22%
China (CSI 300) +3.08%
Hong Kong (HSI) -2.95%
Singapore (FSSTI) -2.27%
Australia (S&P/ASX 200) -1.22%

New Product Launch Review

Last week,one new product was launched in the Asia-Pacific ETP market. Invesco Great Wall Fund Management listed one equity ETF (159935 CH) on Shenzhen Stock Exchange tracking the CSI 500 Index.

ETP Weekly Flows – Weekly inflows into China,while Japan saw outflows
Last week,Asia-Pacific ETP market recorded outflows of -$0.2bn vs. +$0.3bn of inflows for the previous week,setting the YTD weekly flows average at +$0.3bn (+$1.1bn YTD in total flows). Developed markets equity ETFs experienced weekly outflows of -$234mn while emerging markets equity ETFs collected inflows of +$68mn over the last week. On a country level,ETFs benchmarked to China recorded inflows of +$142mn,while Japan benchmarked ETFs saw outflows of -$362mn.

Winners and losers: At ETP level,Nomura Nikkei 225 ETF (1321 JP) and Tracker Fund of Hong Kong (2800 HK) were the largest flows receivers of the week collecting +$308mn and +$92mn respectively. Over the same period,biggest outflows were experienced by Maxis Nikkei 225 ETF (1346 JP),Daiwa ETF - Nikkei 225 (1320 JP) and Daiwa ETF - Topix (1305 JP) recording -$286mn,-$185mn and -$178mn of outflows respectively.

Turnover Review – Floor activity up by 8.5%
Asia-Pacific ETP turnover totaled $14bn for the last week,8.5% up from the previous week’s total. Stock exchanges in Japan remained on the top of the turnover ranking with $6.3bn turnover,followed by South Korea ($3.3bn),China ($2.3bn) and Hong Kong ($1.8bn). Among equity ETFs,leveraged long strategy,emerging country,Asia-Pac developed country and short strategy ETFs had total turnover of $5.9bn,$4.6bn,$1.9bn and $0.7bn respectively. Within fixed income asset class,money market and sovereign ETFs recorded turnover of $0.2bn and $0.1bn over the last week respectively.

Assets under Management Review – Assets decreased by $0.6bn
Last week, Asia-Pacific ETP AUM decreased by $0.6bn and ended the week at $163.7bn. On a year-to-date basis,Asia-Pacific ETP market is down by $3.8bn or 2.3% below last year’s closing.

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Source: Deutsche Bank-Synthetic Equity & Index Strategy -Asia


China moves to quell investor concerns

January 27, 2014--China's local governments have published separate audit reports detailing their combined public debt of $3 trillion for the first time ever, to increase transparency and quell investor concerns.

The audits showed China's wealthiest eastern provinces are the most indebted, though repayment burdens are more onerous in poorer areas such as the southwestern province of Guizhou, where the ratio of debt to GDP is the highest, at 79%.

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Source: FIN24


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