Europe ETF News up to 1 year Ago
Europe's mutual funds continue to bleed heavily
June 17, 2024--Investors have pulled €258bn from actively managed equity funds since the start of 2022
Europe's active asset managers face an unprecedented challenge in dealing with continued mutual fund outflows.
Investors have pulled €258bn from actively managed equity funds since the start of 2022, with a further €140bn withdrawn from multi-asset and alternative funds, Morningstar data shows.
However, passive product providers have prospered from investor demand, with inflows to index and exchange traded equity funds totalling €256bn.
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Source: ft.com
Forecasts for the UK economy: July 2024
July 17, 2024--A comparison of independent forecasts for the UK economy in July 2024.
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Source: gov.uk
ESMA publishes latest edition of its newsletter
June 12, 2024--The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), the EU's financial markets regulator and supervisor, has today published its latest edition of the Spotlight on Markets Newsletter.
Your one-stop-shop in the world of EU financial markets focuses in May on the Position Paper with recommendations for more effective and attractive capital markets in the EU and includes a factsheet with the main highlights.
ESMA also issued a Statement with initial guidance to firms using Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies when they provide investment services to retail clients. Following its public statement of 14 December 2023, guidelines establishing harmonised criteria for the use of ESG and sustainability terms in fund names were shared.
The financial markets regulator also published the Final Report on the rules on conflicts of interests of crypto-asset service providers (CASP) under the Markets in Crypto Assets Regulation (MiCA).
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Source: ESMA
New bond ETFs from BNP Paribas on Xetra: access to long term euro corporate bonds with high ESG standards
June 11, 2024--As of today, two new exchange-traded funds issued by BNP Paribas Asset Management are tradable on Xetra and Börse Frankfurt.
The BNP Paribas Easy € Corp bond SRI Fossil Free 7-10Y UCITS ETF offers investors access to a portfolio of euro-denominated fixed income corporate bonds that have high standards of sustainable values.
The selected bonds have an investment grade rating and a remaining maturity of between 7 and 10 years.
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Source: Xetra
A new bond ETF from Amundi on Xetra: access to the global bond market for the highest rated sustainable corporate bonds
June 11, 2024--Since today, a new exchange-traded fund issued by Amundi Asset Management has been tradable via Xetra and Börse Frankfurt.
The Amundi Global Corporate SRI 1-5Y Highest Rated UCITS ETF USD Hedged provides investors with access to the global bond market for high-quality corporate bonds in various issuance currencies.
The selected bonds have an investment grade rating and a remaining maturity of between 7 and 10 years.
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Source: Xetra
New equity ETF from WisdomTree on Xetra: access to climate-neutral and sustainable companies from developed countries worldwide
June 11, 2024--Since Tuesday, a new exchange-traded fund issued by WisdomTree has been tradable on Xetra and Börse Frankfurt.
The WisdomTree Global Sustainable Equity UCITS ETF offers investors the opportunity to invest in a portfolio of companies from developed countries worldwide that make a positive contribution to social and environmental goals.
These include companies that generate a high proportion of their revenue from business activities that comply with the EU taxonomy or make a positive contribution to the sustainability goals of the 2030 Agenda. Companies with targets approved by the Science Based Targets Initiative to reduce CO2 emissions or first-class key figures in the area of gender or environmental and social risk management also qualify.
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Source: Xetra
ECB-Euro area bank interest rate statistics: April 2024
June 5, 2024--Composite cost-of-borrowing indicator for new loans to corporations and for new loans to households for house purchase unchanged at 5.18% and 3.80%, respectively
Composite interest rate for new deposits with agreed maturity from corporations broadly unchanged at 3.65%; interest rate for overnight deposits from corporations broadly unchanged at 0.91%
Composite interest rate for new deposits with agreed maturity from households decreased by 5 basis points to 3.11%, driven by both interest rate and weight effects; interest rate for overnight deposits from households unchanged at 0.39%
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Source: ecb.europa.eu
Final MiCA rules on conflict of interest of crypto assets providers published
May 31, 2024--The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), the EU's financial markets regulator and supervisor, is publishing today the Final Report on the rules on conflicts of interests of crypto-asset service providers (CASP) under the Markets in Crypto Assets Regulation (MiCA).
In the report ESMA sets out draft Regulatory Technical Standards on certain requirements in relation to conflicts of interest for crypto-asset service providers (CASPs) under MiCA, with a view to clarifying elements in relation to vertical integration of CASPs and to further align with the draft European Banking Authority (EBA) rules applicable to issuers of asset-referenced tokens (ARTs).
The RTS also contain updates on:
requirements for the policies and procedures for the identification, prevention, management, and disclosure of conflicts of interest, considering the scale, the nature and the range of crypto-asset services provided, as well as
details and methodology for the content of the disclosures of conflicts of interest.
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Source: ESMA
Lloyd Capital has partnered with HANetf to launch focused equity and growth equity ETFs with over $300m AUM
May 29, 2024--Lloyd Capital has partnered with HANetf to launch Lloyd Focused Equity UCITS ETF (ticker: FEP) and Lloyd Growth Equity UCITS ETF (ticker: GEP).
The two ETFs have launched with a combined $319.67 million[1] in assets under management (AUM).
HANetf, Europe's first and only independent white-label UCITS ETF and ETC platform[2], and leading provider of digital asset ETPs, is delighted to announce it has partnered with Lloyd Capital to launch Lloyd Focused Equity UCITS ETF (ticker: FEP) and Lloyd Growth Equity UCITS ETF (ticker: GEP).
The two new ETFs follow Solactive indices that aim to replicate the equity strategy for which Lloyd Capital has become widely renowned and that have a long track record of superior investment results.
Lloyd Focused Equity UCITS ETF tracks the Solactive Lloyd Focused Equity Index, which aims to select companies with strong and sustainable earning power, trading at a price that provides a margin of safety over their intrinsic value.
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Source: hanetf.com
ECB-Monetary developments in the euro area: April 2024
May 29, 2024-Annual growth rate of broad monetary aggregate M3 increased to 1.3% in April 2024 from 0.9% in March
Annual growth rate of narrower monetary aggregate M1, comprising currency in circulation and overnight deposits, was -6.0% in April, compared with -6.6% in March
Annual growth rate of adjusted loans to households stood at 0.2% in April, unchanged from previous month
Annual growth rate of adjusted loans to non-financial corporations stood at 0.3% in April, compared with 0.4% in March
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Components of the broad monetary aggregate M3
The annual growth rate of the broad monetary aggregate M3 increased to 1.3% in April 2024 from 0.9% in March, averaging 0.8% in the three months up to April. The components of M3 showed the following developments. The annual growth rate of the narrower aggregate M1, which comprises currency in circulation and overnight deposits, was -6.0% in April, compared with -6.6% in March.
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Source: ecb.europa.eu