Europe ETF News for the Past Year
ETF and ETP listings on June 4, 2025: new on Xetra and Borse Frankfurt
June 4, 2025--The SPDR S&P Europe Defense Vision UCITS ETF invests in at least 30 European-based companies (excluding Russia) involved in defense-related activities.
These include companies operating exclusively in the defense sector, industrial companies in the field of naval shipbuilding, tank construction and the construction of military installations and infrastructure, as well as technology providers responsible for secure communications, cybersecurity and IT systems for military operations.
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Source: Xetra
Jacobi Bitcoin ETF Opens to Retail Investors Following Regulatory Approval
June 3, 2025--Jacobi Asset Management announces today at Money 20/20 Amsterdam a major milestone in the evolution of digital asset investment in Europe. The Jacobi Bitcoin ETF, Europe's first and only Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF), is now open to both retail and professional investors following a landmark decision by the Guernsey Financial Services Commission (GFSC).
Retail investors, subject to the rules of their respective national regulators, can now access the Jacobi Bitcoin ETF via regulated brokerage and investment platforms.
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Source: Jacobi Asset Management (Holdings) Ltd
A United Europe Can Shape the Global Economy
June 3, 2025--The European Union must unite to shape today's global economy, rather than be shaped by it
Not many places match the European Union for quality of life. Its workers enjoy more time off than in many other regions, yet their living standards are among the highest. Its core values of solidarity are exemplified in social contracts that ensure the state will care for those who need it.
Yet lately the EU has lost confidence in its economic model. Wealthier than China and more populous than the United States, it has been trailing both in growth and has fallen back in technological innovation since the global financial crisis. The growth gap is widening as the continent’s workforce shrinks, productivity stagnates, and trade tensions rise. And now governments are scrambling to boost defense spending to rely less on the United States for their security.
Can the EU rouse itself to meet the challenges of a new era marked by rapid geopolitical shifts and policy uncertainty? The newest issue of Finance & Development examines that question in depth.
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Source: IMF.org
Making Germany Grow Again
June 3, 2025--Long-term, future-focused investment can rescue Europe's largest economy from stagnation
More than a quarter century after The Economist first dubbed Germany the "sick man of Europe," the label applies again.
And this time, the illness is a chronic condition, requiring a long-term treatment plan. The new government's fiscal plan to fund infrastructure investment and increased defense spending is a start. But Germany must also open its economy to future-oriented technologies, push for greater market integration in Europe, and build stronger capital markets at home.
For the past five years, Germany's economy has been stagnant, growing by just 0.1 percent since 2019.
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Source: IMF.org
ECB-Monetary developments in the euro area: April 2025
May 30, 2025--Annual growth rate of broad monetary aggregate M3 increased to 3.9% in April 2025 from 3.7% in March (revised from 3.6%)
Annual growth rate of narrower monetary aggregate M1, comprising currency in circulation and overnight deposits, increased to 4.7% in April from 3.9% in March (revised from 3.8%)
Annual growth rate of adjusted loans to households increased to 1.9% in April from 1.7% in March
Annual growth rate of adjusted loans to non-financial corporations increased to 2.6% in April from 2.4% in March (revised from 2.3%)
Components of the broad monetary aggregate M3
The annual growth rate of the broad monetary aggregate M3 increased to 3.9% in April 2025 from 3.7% in March, averaging 3.8% 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, increased to 4.7% in April from 3.9% in March. The annual growth rate of short-term deposits other than overnight deposits (M2-M1) decreased to 0.6% in April from 1.5% in March. The annual growth rate of marketable instruments (M3-M2) decreased to 10.8% in April from 11.9% in March.
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Source: ECB
Future-Proofing the Euro
May 23, 2025--Europe's policymakers must not rely on the next crisis to force reform to the single currency
The euro is at the core of the European project, but its future is far from assured. Introduced more than 25 years ago, it has survived one crisis after another, and its rules and institutions have changed along the way. Yet these changes to the functioning of European monetary union form a poor long-term basis for institutions.
They have spawned ever larger and less constrained monetary and fiscal interventions and sown the seeds for even worse future crises.
This is the sobering diagnosis of Crisis Cycle, a new book on the euro's evolution by a unique trio: Stanford University's John Cochrane, a leading scholar of monetary and fiscal matters; Luis Garicano, once a member of the European Parliament, now at the London School of Economics; and Klaus Masuch, whose lifetime career in the European Central Bank’s engine rooms of monetary policy and crisis management included work with the "troika" that negotiated the Greek adjustment program after the 2010 debt crisis.
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Source: IMF.org
Meeting of 16-17 April 2025 Account of the monetary policy meeting of the Governing Council of the European Central Bank
May 22, 2025--Held in Frankfurt am Main
1. Review of financial, economic and monetary developments and policy options
Financial market developments
Ms Schnabel recalled that President Trump's announcement on 2 April 2025 of unexpectedly high tariffs had sparked a sharp sell-off in global equity markets and in US bond markets, leading to a surge in financial market volatility.
The severity of the tariffs and the manner in which they had been introduced had led to a breakdown of standard cross-market correlations, with a sell-off of US equities occurring at the same time as a sell-off of Treasuries in the context of a marked depreciation of the US dollar against major currencies.
Movements in euro area risk-free rates reflected the opposing impacts of the historic German fiscal package and the global trade conflict.
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Source: ECB
Columbia Threadneedle Investments expanding US active ETF range to Europe
May 19, 2025--A 'natural expansion' for the firm
Columbia Threadneedle Investments is set to expand its active ETF offering to the European market as it looks to branch out from its existing US range.
Due to be completed by the end of 2025, the rollout will see four equity-focused active strategies launched, subject to regulatory approval, with plans for active fixed income ETFs to be brought to market next year. At first, the product range will be run by US-based senior portfolio manager Chris Lo and his team, which manages $15bn worth of assets across 13 US domiciled funds. Europe's first active travel ETF launched
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Source: investmentweek.co.uk
Romanian investment management company lists new ETF to track BET index
May 16, 2025-SAI Broker, a Romanian investment management company part of BRK Financial Group, listed a new ETF on the Regulated Market of the Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB) on May 16, under the stock symbol BKBETETF. The ETF aims to fully replicate the structure of the main index, BET.
The BET index reflects the evolution of the most liquid Romanian companies listed on the BVB Regulated Market and is the benchmark index of the Romanian capital market.
The capitalization of all companies listed on the main segment of the stock exchange is RON 375 billion.
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Source: romania-insider.com
ECB-Financial Stability Review, May 2025
May 13, 2025--When the US Administration announced a new set of tariffs in April this year, it caused a spike in financial market volatility while testing stretched market valuations. Although expectations for tariff rates have eased somewhat since then, the repercussions of the shock continue to reverberate and the risks of an economic slowdown have increased markedly.
Financial markets across the globe sold off at an unsettling speed in early April and financial conditions tightened considerably. While risky assets have been recovering their losses since temporary tariff pauses were announced, markets remain highly sensitive to news about global trade arrangements.
The abrupt change in US tariff policy forms part of a larger shift in the geopolitical environment, with economic and financial impacts that could yet test euro area financial stability. Uncertainty lingers within many important policy domains beyond trade-from regulation to national security. In this environment, the likelihood of increasingly frequent and impactful adverse tail events has increased. Furthermore, while global imbalances remain a long-standing issue in the policy debate, it is not clear that tariffs are the best-placed policy instrument to address them.
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Source: ecb.europa.eu
