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FSA publishes Business Plan for 2010/11
March 17, 2010--The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has today published its Business Plan setting out its priorities for 2010/11.
The Plan is a demanding programme of work for the year requiring greater policy and supervisory resources, and focusing on a number of key areas:
Delivering effective supervision backed by credible deterrence in enforcement.
Continuing to embed the organisational and cultural change needed to implement intensive supervision.
The policy reform programme driven by the Turner Review and the wider policy agenda mandated by the European Union.
Playing a role in promoting financial stability should the Financial Services Bill be enacted. The FSA will be recruiting an additional 460 staff in 2010 to implement Solvency 2, and to deliver the intensive supervisory approach needed for the very largest firms.
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Source: FSA.gov.uk
db x-trackers listet Short-ETF auf den Schweizer Aktienindex SMI
March 17, 2010--db x-trackers hat den weltweit ersten Short-
ETF auf den Schweizer Aktienindex SMI an der Deutschen Börse gelistet. Der SMI® SHORT DAILY ETF bildet die umgekehrte tägliche Wertentwicklung des SMI-Index
zuzüglich eines anteiligen Zinsanteils ab.
Der SMI-Index (Swiss Market Index) ist ein
Schweizer Blue-Chip-Index. Er enthält maximal 20 der größten und liquidesten
Aktien des Large- und Mid-Cap-Segments. Die im SMI-Index enthaltenen
Wertpapiere repräsentieren derzeit über 85 Prozent der gesamten
Marktkapitalisierung aller Schweizer und Liechtensteiner Aktien, die an der SIX
Swiss Exchange notiert sind.
Der SMI-Index (Swiss Market Index) ist ein Schweizer Blue-Chip-Index. Er enthält maximal 20 der größten und liquidesten Aktien des Large- und Mid-Cap-Segments. Die im SMI-Index enthaltenen Wertpapiere repräsentieren derzeit über 85 Prozent der gesamten Marktkapitalisierung aller Schweizer und Liechtensteiner Aktien, die an der SIX Swiss Exchange notiert sind.
db x-trackers ETF auf: SMI® Short Daily
Währung:Euro (EUR)
Pauschalgebühr (p.a.):0,50%
ISIN:LU0470923532
Mit der Auflage des SMI Short Daily ETF bietet db x-trackers insgesamt 16 Short-
ETFs auf Aktienindizes in Europa, Nordamerika und Asien an. Damit baut die Index-
Tracking-Plattform der Deutschen Bank seine Marktstellung als größter Anbieter von
Short-ETFs in Europa weiter aus. Für die kommenden Wochen plant db x-trackers
das Listing von Short- und Hebel-ETFs auf die die Aktienindizes DAX, S&P 500, DJ
EuroStoxx 50 und FTSE 100.
Source: db x-trackers
21 New Amundi ETFs Launched on Xetra
ETFs cover MSCI Europe sector indices for the first time/ XTF segment now contains 610 index funds
March 16, 2010--Since Tuesday, twelve equity index funds, eight bond index funds and one money market index fund from the issuer Amundi ETF have been tradable on Xetra.
10 of the 21 Amundi ETFs cover the following super-sectors of the MSCI Europe Index: Banks, Consumer Discretionary, Consumer Staples, Health Care, Industrials, Insurance, IT, Materials, Telecom Services and Utilities.
The index is weighted by freefloat market capitalization, and aims to reflect the performance of the equity markets of the following 17 industrialized nations: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Northern Ireland, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland.
The Amundi ETF MSCI EMU High Dividend and the Amundi ETF MSCI Europe High Dividend enable investors to participate in the performance of companies with the highest dividend yields in the euro zone/Europe.
Amundi also offers investors the possibility of participating in the performance of bond ETFs from the EuroMTSBroad index family. Investors have the choice of between six bond ETFs with various maturities, containing euro-zone government bonds with a minimum residual maturity of one year and an outstanding minimum volume of two billion euros.
The money market index fund tracks the performance of the EuroMTS Government Bill Index. This index tracks the yield of government bonds issued by euro-zone member states and which have a maturity of no more than six months.
The Amundi ETF Euro Inflation allows investors to participate in the performance of government inflation-indexed bonds issued by euro-zone member states and which have an outstanding nominal amount of at least two billion euros.
The offering is rounded off by the Amundi ETF Euro Corporate, which tracks the performance of the Markit iBoxx Euro Liquid Corporates Index. This index contains 40 investment grade corporate bonds denominated in euro.
The product offering in Deutsche Börse’s XTF segment currently contains a total of 610 exchange-listed index funds, making it the largest offering of all European stock exchanges. This selection, together with an average monthly trading volume of around €11 billion, makes Xetra Europe’s leading trading venue for ETFs.
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Source: Deutsche Börse
Splintered Europe share market seen ripe for abuse
March 15, 2010--The splintering of Europe's share markets into numerous trading platforms in recent years has created a fertile field for market abuse and made it more difficult to detect, a group of London market consultants said.
The EU's Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID) in 2007 opened exchanges to competition from low-cost new rival platforms known as multilateral trading facilities (MTFs).
"Now there is so much market fragmentation and competition that we have got away from a fair and orderly market," said Brian Taylor, a member of the new Alliance of Independent Advisors to Financial Markets, or Avenues, at a media briefing on Tuesday.
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Source: Yahoo Finance
The value of shares listed on the Spanish Stock Exchange reaches €85 billion
BME’s Report: Listings and Public Offerings, the pillars of economic transformation and stock market growth
In 230 listings and public offerings over the last 25 years
March 16, 2010--Between 1986 and 2009 there were 230 listings and public offerings on the Spanish stock exchange worth €85 bn, according to the Report on Initial Public Offerings and Listings, presented today by BME.
The report describes Spain’s extraordinary economic development over the last 25 years, with GDP that has increased more than five times since 1986, the year the country joined the EU.
The report highlights the importance of the stock exchange as the key driver of this phenomenon, as it channels multiple corporate activities that have made possible the transfer and secure reallocation of significant capital and equity flows.
During the presentation of the report, Domingo García Coto, Director of BME´s Research Department, stated that “there has been a transition from a financial system model in which bank intermediaries were the prevailing and almost the only source of financing to a model in which stock markets have gradually increased their weight to become key instruments in the financial system for their ability to channel investment flows to the economy and provide asset valuation at any time”.
In 1986, the market value of listed companies, or capitalisation, stood at €39 bn. This figure increased by 28 times in 2009 to €1.1 trillion in 2009, posting a cumulative average annual growth rate of 15.7%, double that of Spain´s GDP. As regards Equity trading volume, it increased exponentially, from €12.6 billion in 1986 to €897 billion in 2009.
The objective of the report is to review and analyse those market-based capital raising processes and to make it clear that for any company, listing on the stock exchange is a crucial decision and one that has a clear beneficiary: shareholders. Companies need equity to finance their investment processes and shareholders benefit from the liquidity, objective pricing, knowledge of latent capital gains and greater protection.
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Source: Bolsa de Madrid (BME)
European Equity Market Report-FESE
March 16, 2010--FESE has published the European Equity Market report - Year 2010 (updated with February figures)
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Source: FESE
First two months see 47.9 percent decline in budget deficit
March 16, 2010--Turkey’s budget deficit in the first two months of 2010 totaled $5.39 billion, a 47.9 percent decrease over the same months of 2009, Finance Ministry data have shown.
The budget deficit in January and February of 2009 totaled $10.35 billion.
According to Finance Ministry figures released on Tuesday, the state spent $2.27 billion more than it earned in January, while the budget deficit in the month of February reached $3.12 billion. Expenditures amounted to $44.93 billion while $39.54 billion entered the state coffers in the same period.
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Source: Todays Zaman
Europe's €200bn problem loans on property
March 16, 2010--There is more than €200bn ($275bn) of problem commercial real estate debt sitting in the books of European banks following profligate lending practices during the last property boom.
The worst of this is found in the UK and German markets, according to a report to be launched at the annual property festival in Cannes on Wednesday, with bad loans set for a lengthy 10-year workout through restructuring, forced sales and potential further bank writedowns.
CB Richard Ellis, the property consultancy, will on Wednesday say that there is about €970bn of debt outstanding.
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Source: FT.com
EU pulls hedge fund curbs, amid British opposition
March 16, 2010-- Plans for European finance ministers to vote through new laws curbing highly speculative investment fund managers were ditched at the last minute on Tuesday amid opposition from Britain, officials said.
Diplomats last week said the issue would be put to a vote, and that Britain was isolated.
But vigorously expressed opposition from London, in the run-up to a closely-fought general election there, appears to have killed a continental appetite to use a majority to ram through changes.
British Chancellor Alistair Darling told reporters that London was unable to sign up to new regulatory burdens that effectively prevented London-managed funds from "crossing the channel" and accessing the entire European Union marketplace.
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Source: EUbusiness
British row over leaked EU deficit report
March 16, 2010--Britain's Labour government came under fire from opposition Conservatives on Tuesday as a leaked European Commission report suggested that the public deficit needs cutting faster than anticipated.
The Tories leapt on excerpts from the report, due to be published on Wednesday, suggesting that current plans were not ambitious enough.
"This is a heavy blow for Gordon Brown's credibility," said George Osborne, who hopes to become Britain's finance minister if the Conservatives win general elections expected on May 6.
The EU commission report, leaked to British media, said: "The fiscal strategy in the convergence programme is not sufficiently ambitious and needs to be significantly reinforced.
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Source: EUbusiness
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