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Luxembourg FM calls for European tax
January 18, 2010-- Luxembourg's finance minister called for a new tax to fund the European Union's budget, saying in Monday's Le Figaro newspaper he favoured a levy on financial transactions or a carbon tax.
Our citizens have a direct link with their national budget but this is not at all the case when it comes to the European Union budget," the minister, Luc Frieden, wrote in a commentary for the French daily.
"It would therefore make sense to rethink the financing of the European budget through a European tax imposed on certain services or products that would go directly into the European budget," he said.
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Source: EU Business
Marshall Wace plans listed ETF to track strategy
January 18, 2010--Marshall Wace, one of Europe’s largest hedge funds, will on Monday unveil plans to launch a publicly listed exchange-traded fund to track its flagship Tops fund strategy in an effort to rebuild assets after huge redemptions in 2009.
The move marks a rekindling of a trend popular among top-tier hedge funds at the height of the boom to list versions of their restricted, proprietary strategies on stock exchanges
The Marshall Wace vehicle, expected to raise $500m (£307m), will be structured as an ETF, the first such structure of its kind, and unlike a closed-ended listing will be able to grow in size according to investor demand.
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Source: FT.com
CESR publishes consolidated information on depositary obligation for all 29 CESR Members
January 15, 2010--Since late 2008, CESR has been working on a number of issues related to UCITS depositaries. At the outset, the focus was on assessing the impact of the Madoff fraud on the fund industry; this work was then widened to include consideration of the duties and responsibilities of UCITS depositaries.
In this context, a mapping exercise was carried out among CESR Members to establish how the various rules on depositary obligations have been implemented in Member States. A high-level summary of that mapping exercise was included as an annex to CESR’s response to the Commission’s consultation on the UCITS depositary function (Ref. CESR/09-781 published on 28 September 2009).
However, since the mapping work began early last year, there have been a number of requests from external stakeholders to have access to the detailed, country-level information that had been collected. The full mapping exercise being published on the today includes consolidated information for all 29 CESR Members.
view the Mapping of duties and liabilities of UCITS depositaries
Source: CESR
CESR publishes update of FAQ and common positions regarding prospectuses
January 15, 2010--CESR published today the 10th updated of FAQ and commonly agreed positions by CESR Members regarding prospectuses.
view the Frequently asked questions regarding Prospectuses: Common positions agreed by CESR Members 10th Updated Version - December 2009
Source: CESR
ETF Statistics December 2009-London Stock Exchange
January 15, 2010--The ETF Statistics December 2009 of the London Stock Exchange is now available.
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Source: London Stock Exchange
Amundi IS, formerly known as CASAM, has listed an additional 13 ETFs on the NYSE Euronext European markets
January 15, 2010--Amundi IS, formerly known as CASAM, has listed the following13 ETFs on the NYSE Euronext European markets:
CASAM ETF COMMODITIES S&P GSCI (LE)
ISIN: FR0010821728
ETF Symbol:CL7
CASAM ETF COMMODITIES S&P GSCI AGRICULTURE
ISIN:FR0010821736
ETF Symbol:CA8
CASAM ETF COMMODITIES S&P GSCI NON ENERGY
ISIN:FR0010821777
ETF Symbol:NEG
CASAM ETF COMMODITIES S&P GSCI METALS
ISIN:FR0010821744
ETF Symbol:CME
CASAM ETF MSCI BRAZIL
ISIN:FR0010821793
ETF Symbol:BRZ
CASAM ETF MSCI EUROPE EX EMU
ISIN:FR0010821819
ETF Symbol:CU9
CASAM ETF MSCI EUROPE EX SWITZERLAND
ISIN:FR0010821835
ETF Symbol:CS9
CASAM ETF SHORT GOVT BOND EUROMTS BROAD
ISIN:FR0010821850
ETF Symbol:SB0
CASAM ETF SHORT GOVT BOND EUROMTS BROAD 10-15
ISIN:FR0010823385
ETF Symbol:S10
CASAM ETF SHORT GOVT BOND EUROMTS BROAD 1-3
ISIN:FR0010821876
ETF Symbol:S13
CASAM ETF SHORT GOVT BOND EUROMTS BROAD 3-5
ISIN:FR0010823401
ETF Symbol:S35
CASAM ETF SHORT GOVT BOND EUROMTS BROAD 5-7
ISIN:FR0010823443
ETF Symbol:S5B
CASAM ETF SHORT GOVT BOND EUROMTS BROAD 7-10
ISIN:FR0010823450
ETF Symbol:S71
Source: NYSE Euronext
iShares lists seven new ETFs on NYSE Euronext
January 14, 2010-NYSE Euronext is pleased to announce that iShares, the Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) arm of Barclays Global Investors today has listed seven new Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) on the Amsterdam market of NYSE Euronext. Trading began in five accumulating versions of iShares largest and most successful equity-based ETFs, that reinvest dividend income and two government bond ETFs.
The NYSE Euronext ETF segment continues to grow and is very successful both on its European and US markets. In Europe, NYSE Euronext now has 487 listings of 439 ETFs based on more than 265 indices.
Scott Ebner, Senior Vice President, European Exchange Traded Products at NYSE Euronext said: “We are very happy to include these new iShares to our ETF segment. The fast growth of the segment clearly indicates the popularity of ETFs amongst European issuers and investors. So far this year, already 97 ETFs have been listed on NYSE Euronext European markets.”
Product information:
The accumulating funds are based on five of iShares’ most successful equity-based ETFs, that pay out dividend income to investors on a periodic basis. By contrast, the accumulating funds will automatically reinvest any dividend income into the fund, rather than paying it to investors. The newly listed accumulating funds are:
• iShares MSCI Emerging Markets (Acc) – ISIN IE00B4L5YC18, Trading Symbol IEMA
• iShares S&P 500 (Acc) – ISIN IE00B4L5ZD99, Trading Symbol IACC
• iShares MSCI World (Acc) – ISIN IE00B4L5Y983, Trading Symbol IWDA
• iShares MSCI Europe (Acc) – ISIN IE00B4K48X80, Trading Symbol IMAE
• iShares MSCI Japan (Acc) – ISIN IE00B4L5YX21, Trading Symbol IJPA
The new fixed income products are:
• iShares Barclays Euro Government Bond 10 - 15 (ISIN IE00B4WXJH41, Trading Symbol IEGZ) which tracks the Barclays Capital Euro Government Bond 10 – 15-year term index and offers exposure to the performance of 10 – 15 year maturity bonds issued by EMU member states.
• iShares Barclays Euro Government Bond 5 - 7 (ISIN IE00B4WXJG34, Trading Symbol IEGY) which tracks the Barclays Capital Euro Government Bond 5 – 7-year term index and offers exposure to the performance of 10 year maturity bonds issued by EMU member states with a remaining maturity of 5 – 7 years.
Source: NYSE Euronext
ISE and Muscat Securities Market signed Memorandum of Understanding
January 15, 2010--The Istanbul Stock Exchange and Muscat Securities Market (MSM) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in Muscat, OMAN on December 27, 2009. The MoU was signed by Mr. Hüseyin Erkan, ISE Chairman & CEO, and Mr. Ahmed Saleh Al-Marhoon, Director General of MSM.
The MoU envisages the two parties to cooperate with each other to facilitate the development of channels of communication and to foster a continuing relationship between the two parties for the benefit of the Turkish and Oman securities markets. Within the framework of the MoU, the parties intend to exchange experience, information, technical support and seconding employees between the two exchanges as well as cooperation on conducting joint researches and seminars.
Source: Istanbul Stock Exchange
Man Group funds fall 4% in third quarter
January 15, 2010--Shares in Man Group, the hedge fund manager, stumbled on Friday after it said that funds under management had fallen 4 per cent in the final three months of 2009.
The decline reflected a $1.2bn quarterly loss on investments made by its AHL arm, which follows computer-driven trading strategies, as well as redemptions by institutional investors.
However, the fund manager also said that it had won, subject to contract, a mandate from a large unnamed pension fund this month – a deal that could potentially swell funds under management by about $1bn.
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Source: FT.com
DB Index Research -- Weekly ETF Reports -- Europe
January 14, 2010--Highlights
ETF Volume
Exchange based Equity ETF turnover remained at about the same level on the previous week. Daily turnover for the previous week was E1.1bn. European fixed income ETF turnover declined by 2.6% to E196.2m.
In exchange based bond ETFs, db x-trackers II EONIA TR Index ETF has the highest daily turnover of E15.38m. Among the Equity ETFs, iShares DAX (DE) has the highest daily turnover of E50.63m.
There were 37 new listings last week. Julius Baer issued twenty four new Commodity ETFs on Swiss Stock Exchange followed by Source which issued nine new ETFs on London Stock Exchange. UBS issued two new ETF on Deutsche Borse and Zuercher Kantonalbank launched two new ETFs on Swiss Stock Exchange. All the new listings were primary listings except those issued by UBS.
European Regional ETFs remained at the top position as leading product area with total turnover of E361m with 32.75% of total ETF turnover followed by Country ETFs with total turnover of E265m accounting for 24.04% of total ETF turnover. The DAX ETFs remain the dominant country products with total average daily volume of E162m across the fourteen listed products and accounting for 12.9% of all equity ETF volume.
DJ Euro STOXX 50 ETFs accounted for 15.6% of turnover trading E172m per day with liquidity split across 17 ETFs and 44 different listings on 9 exchanges.
Market Share
The Deutsche Borse XTF platform has the largest market share with 36.1% of total turnover. The Euronext NextTrack platform has 17.9% market share. The LSE’s combined Italian Exchange and London market share is now 28.3%.
Assets under Management (AUM) Total European Equity related AUM rose by 3.2% to E117.5bn during last week. AUM for DJ Euro STOXX 50 ETFs was E23.4bn accounting for 19.9% of total European AUM. Fixed Income ETF AUM remained at about the same level at E36.3bn.
Overall, the largest ETF by AUM was Lyxor ETF DJ Euro STOXX 50, an Equity based ETF, with AUM of E5.3bn. The largest Fixed Income ETF by AUM was the iShares € Corporate Bond with AUM of E3.3bn.
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Source: Aram Flores and Shan Lan -DB Index Research
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