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Tabula reveals plans for first ESG fixed income ETF
July 29, 2020--Tabula IM research found investors are looking for more innovation and transparency in ESG fixed income ETFs
A report by Tabula Investment Management has revealed that European professional investors are looking for more innovation and transparency in ESG fixed income ETFs, an insight the firm intends to use to build its first ESG product
Some 82% of respondents said they want to see more innovation in the fixed income ETF space when it comes to ESG, with many also looking for their providers to go above and beyond the simple exclusion of controversial companies.
UK pension scheme invests 5.5bn Euro into green strategies
July 29, 2020--Britain's largest pension scheme Nest has pledged to tighten its climate change policy with an investment of €5.5bn into environmentally friendly strategies.
The government-backed scheme said it would decarbonise its £€12bn investment portfolio in a bid to tackle climate change. Nest said it aims to be "net-zero" across its investments by 2050 or earlier, with the expectation that carbon emissions in its portfolio will halve by 2030.
Tabula insights: What investors really want from ESG
July 29, 2020--Tabula asked 120 European professional investors* for their views on fixed income ESG ETFs. They found that, overwhelmingly, they want more innovation. The survey also revealed an interesting preference for outperformance potential over benchmark tracking.
Tabula found that 96% of investors we surveyed are already using ESG ETFs, which is a remarkable level of penetration in only a few years. However, in fixed income specifically, the vast majority of respondents want to see more innovation and better coverage of some segments of the market.
ECB-Euro area economic and financial developments by institutional sector: first quarter of 2020
July 28, 2020--Euro area net saving decreased to €832 billion in the four quarters to the first quarter of 2020, compared with €871 billion in the four quarters to the previous quarter. Euro area net non-financial investment decreased to €573 billion (from €584 billion previously), due to decreased investments by households and non-financial corporations. Euro area net lending to the rest of the world decreased to €267 billion (from €295 billion previously) reflecting the decrease in net saving.
The household debt-to-income ratio[1] increased to 93.6% in the first quarter of 2020 compared with 93.3% in the first quarter of 2019. Non-financial corporations' debt-to-GDP ratio (consolidated measure) increased to 79.0% in the first quarter of 2020, from 77.5% in the first quarter of 2019; the non-consolidated, wider debt measure increased to 139.4% from 138.5%
New Credit Suisse ETF on Xetra: Sustainable investments combined with low volatility
July 27, 2020--A new exchange traded fund issued by Credit Suisse Asset Management has been tradable on Xetra and Börse Frankfurt since Monday.
With the CSIF (IE) MSCI World ESG Leaders Minimum Volatility Blue UCITS ETF-B USD, investors invest in large and medium-sized companies from 23 Developed Markets countries around the world in line with sustainability criteria.
Companies are selected on the basis of the minimum variance approach, choosing companies with low volatility that contribute to reducing the overall risk profile of the portfolio.
Companies with significant business activities in the fields of nuclear energy, tobacco, alcohol, gambling or weapons are excluded from the index.
Any dividends received are reinvested. The annual costs are 0.25 per cent.
Name: CSIF (IE) MSCI World ESG Leaders Minimum Volatility Blue UCITS ETF- B USD
Asset class: Equity ETF
ISIN: IE00BMDX0M10
EU fund managers back fee changes to Mifid II trading rules
July 27, 2020--Exemption on bonds and small companies research aimed at boosting economic recovery
European fund managers have welcomed plans from Brussels to exempt them from paying a fee for research on bonds and small companies.
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ECB-Monetary developments in the euro area: June 2020
July 27, 2020--Annual growth rate of broad monetary aggregate M3 increased to 9.2% in June 2020 from 8.9% in May
Annual growth rate of narrower monetary aggregate M1, comprising currency in circulation and overnight deposits, stood at 12.6% in June, compared with 12.5% in May.
Annual growth rate of adjusted loans to households stood at 3.0% in June, unchanged from previous month
Annual growth rate of adjusted loans to non-financial corporations decreased to 7.1% in June from 7.3% in May
Brussels to ease capital markets rules to aid business recovery
July 24, 2020--A Capital Markets Recovery Package, outlined by the EU Commission Friday, amends the Prospectus Regulation, MiFID II and securitisation rules to help businesses to raise capital on public markets.
The measures aim to make it easier for capital markets to support European businesses to recover from the crisis. The package proposes targeted changes to capital market rules, which will encourage greater investments in the economy, allow for the rapid re-capitalisation of companies and increase banks' capacity to finance the recovery.
ESMA publishes the MiFID/MiFIR Annual Review Report
July 23, 2020--The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), the EU's securities markets regulator, has published today the MiFID/MiFIR Annual Review Report under Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2017/583 (RTS 2). This report lays down the thresholds for the liquidity criterion' average daily number of trades' for bonds, as well as the trade percentiles.
In the report, ESMA is suggesting to the European Commission to move to the next stage for:
the criterion 'average daily number of trades' used for the quarterly liquidity assessment of bonds; and
the trade percentiles that determine the pre-trade sizes specific to the financial instrument for bonds.
These measures are designed to increase the transparency available to market participants in the bond market.
Two Solactive Fixed Income and Equity Indices underline Amundi's expansion of Prime ETF Range
July 22, 2020--In 2019, Europe's largest asset manager, Amundi, released its Amundi Prime ETF series, ensuing from a long-term trend of asset managers slashing fees for plain vanilla benchmark-tracking ETFs. Following the success of its then established Prime range, Amundi decided to once again engage Solactive for the expansion of the ETF series with a Fixed Income and Equity ETF tracking US treasury bonds and UK Small and Mid Caps (ex-investment trust), respectively.
The first new ETF released by Amundi is the Amundi Prime US Treasury Bond 0-1 Y UCITS ETF, tracking the Solactive US Treasury 0-1 Year Bond Index that aims to track the performance of US Treasury Bonds with a current maturity between one month and one year. By investing in the ETF, investors effectively gain access to a basket of securities, which provide a sufficient return on a very moderate risk-level, avoiding negative interest rates for investors' savings.
