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Goldman Sachs charges show need for regulation: EU
April 19, 2010--The fraud charges leveled against top Wall Street bank Goldman Sachs illustrate the need for Europe to act firmly to regulate the murky world of derivatives, a senior EU official said on Monday.
EU Internal Market Commissioner Michel Barnier believes that "the kind of practises which are alleged to have taken place which, if confirmed... would be illegal and incomprehensible," his spokeswoman said.
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Source: AFP
Exotic funds cloud ETF promise
April 19, 2010--In a few short years they have risen from obscurity to become one of the hottest investments on the stock market. This week marks the tenth anniversary of the creation of the first exchange-traded funds (ETFs) on the London Stock Exchange. Now there are more than 250 listed in the UK and almost 2,100 are available worldwide, together worth £650 billion.
Deborah Fuhr, head of ETFs research at BlackRock, the investment company that owns the biggest ETF provider, iShares, estimates that the market will grow by 30 per cent this year. “ETFs are one of the greatest financial innovations of the past decade,” she says.
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Source: The Times
FTSE And PensionDCisions Cast A Spotlight On The UK Defined Contribution Market With New Benchmark
April 19, 2010-- FTSE Group (“FTSE”), the award winning global index provider and PensionDCisions, a specialist in retail investor analytics, today announce the launch of the FTSE PensionDCisions DC Index Series. The new index series is the first objective benchmark for the UK’s Defined Contribution (DC) pensions market.
The index series brings to the market a transparent and robust set of tools to aid objective measurement of the performance and risk profiles of default strategies in UK DC plans. Using FTSE’s world class index design standards and PensionDCisions’ unique data, the family of indices reflect the actual asset allocation decisions made by plan sponsors, trustees and their advisers and the subsequent outcome default solutions deliver to consumers.
The creation of these indices will, for the first time, allow DC plans to benefit from a multi-asset class benchmark which can be incorporated in the construction, selection and monitoring of DC default solutions. Asset allocation and benchmark selection for default solutions have until now occurred largely in isolation; these indices will provide DC plans with an essential context for these decisions and will develop as the market evolves.
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Source: FTSE Group
Chi-X Europe Announces Record Q1 2010 Trading Statistics Achieving A 32 Percent Increase
Chi-X Europe had a record day exceeding EUR 10 billion; set a record in March with EUR367.5 billion
value traded; reached new market share highs in leading European indices
April 19, 2010--Chi-X® Europe Limited, the largest pan-European equities exchange,
today published its trading statistics for the first quarter of 2010.
While many of the European stock
exchanges experienced challenging trading conditions, Chi-X Europe continues to progress towards its
objective of becoming both the largest pan-European equities exchange and the largest overall by value
traded. According to the Federation of European Stock Exchanges (FESE), Chi-X Europe was ranked
third largest equity exchange by value traded in February 2010.
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Source: Chi-X
NASDAQ OMX And Handelsbanken Launch New Exchange Traded Notes In Finland
New Index Launched To Track The 15 Most Liquid Finnish Shares
April 19, 2010--NASDAQ OMX Helsinki, part of the NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc. (NASDAQ:NDAQ) today starts trading 20 new Exchange Traded Notes issued by Handelsbanken. This new range of leveraged Bull and Bear certificates includes certificates on the newly launched OMX Helsinki 15 index and the Nordic electricity price.
Lauri Rosendahl, President of NASDAQ OMX Helsinki said: “Handelsbanken is a leading Nordic issuer of structured products and we are very pleased to now be able to offer trading in their new suite of products, including certificates on the new OMX Helsinki 15 index and SHB Power index. The entry of Handelsbanken into the Finnish certificate market will broaden the choice of products available to Finnish investors, and thus help grow the overall popularity of certificates in Finland”.
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Source: NASDAQ OMX
ETFplus new listings-from April 20th 2010, 15 new ETFs issued by Amundi Investment Solution will be listed
April 16, 2010--Borsa Italiana welcomes on the ETFplus market 15 new ETFs issued by Amundi Investment Solution, the new offer is composed as follow:
- 9 standard ETFs, of wich 4 ETFs on commodities (S&P GSCI Light Energy, S&P GSCI Agriculture Capped Component, S&P GSCI All Metals Capped Commodity, S&P GSCI Non-Energy), 2 fixed income ETFs (Markit iBoxx Euro Liquid Corporate, Iboxx Euro inflation-linked TR), 1 ETF on emerging markets (MSCI Brazil trn index) and 2 ETFs on developed markets (MSCI Europe ex EMU, MSCI World ex EMU);
6 structured short ETFs on fixed income: Short EuroMTS Eurozone Government Broad All Maturities, Short EuroMTS Eurozone Government Broad 10-15, Short EuroMTS Eurozone Government Broad 1-3, Short EuroMTS Eurozone Government Broad 3-5, Short EuroMTS Eurozone Government Broad 5-7, Short EuroMTS Eurozone Government Broad 7-10.
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Source: Borsa Italiana
ETFplus Market- ETF Statistics of March 2010
April 16, 2010-- ETF Statistics of March 2010 from the ETFplus Market are now available.
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Source: Boersa Italiana
ETFplus new listing
Aprol 16, 2010--Starting from April 19th 2010, 1 new ETF issued by PowerShares will be listed on the ETFplus market.
The new offer is composed as follow:
-1 ETF on emerging markets: POWERSHARES FTSE RAFI HONG KONG CHINA
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Source: Borsa Italiana
NASDAQ OMX Nordic Sijoittajauutiset Change in the composition of OMX Iceland 6 Index
April 16, 2010-NASDAQ OMX Nordic, part of The NASDAQ OMX Group,Inc. announced today a change in the composition of the OMXIceland 6 Index, (NASDAQ OMX Iceland: OMXI6ISK), which will become effective atmarket open on April 19, 2010.
The change in the portfolio of the OMXI6 Index involves adding Icelandair Grouphf. as a new constituent, while removing Bakkavör hf. from the portfolio as aresult of the company's delisting. The OMX Iceland 6 Index is NASDAQ OMX Iceland's leading index. The indexconsists of the 6 most actively traded shares on NASDAQ OMX Iceland. The indexis suitable as underlying for structured products and as a benchmark index forfunds. The OMX Iceland 6 Index is a free float market capitalized weightedprice index.
Source: NASDAQ OMX
Start of trading of the new Future on the FTSE/ATHEX-CSE Banking Index
April 16, 2010--The trading of the new future on the FTSE/ATHEX-CSE Banking index will start on Monday 19th April.
The index FTSE/ATHEX-CSE Banking started being calculated on 3rd November 2008 and consists of:
The Greek banks of the Athens Exchange securities market which are constituents of the FTSE/ATHEX 20 and FTSE/ATHEX MID 40.
The Cypriot banks of the Cyprus Stock Exchange securities market which are constituents of the FTSE/CySE 20.
The new product is based on the long term cooperation of the Athens Exchange (ATHEX) with the Cyprus Stock Exchange (CSE) which was strengthened with success in October 2006 when the start of the operation of the Common Platform of the securities markets of the two exchanges took place.
The launching of the Future on the FTSE/ATHEX-CSE Banking index broadens the choices of the Cypriot, Greek as well as international investment community. Simultaneously market participants are given the opportunity to invest easily and directly to the banking sector or even hedge more effectively and with less cost towards Market Risk of portfolios which consist of stocks of the banking sector.
Source: Athens Exchange
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