New Tabula ETF on Xetra: European corporate bonds with investment grade and fixed coupon
January 10, 2020--Since Friday, a new Exchange Traded Fund from Tabula ICAV is tradable on Xetra and Börse Frankfurt.
With the Tabula European iTraxx IG Bond UCITS ETF (EUR), investors participate in the performance of an index that represents an equally weighted portfolio of liquid European corporate bonds with investment grade and denominated in Euro.
In order to be included in the reference index, a bond must have an outstanding volume of at least EUR 500 million and a residual maturity of three to seven years.
Name: Tabula European iTraxx IG Bond UCITS ETF (EUR)
Asset class: Bond ETF
ISIN: IE00BL6XZW69
ESMA announces key priorities for 2020-22
January 9, 2020--The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), the EU's securities markets regulator, has published its Strategic Orientation for 2020-22. The Strategic Orientation sets out ESMA's future focus and objectives and reflects its expanded responsibilities and powers following the ESAs Review, and EMIR 2.2, which increases its focus on supervisory convergence, strengthens its role in building the Capital Markets Union (CMU) and gives it with more direct supervision responsibilities.
The strategy details ESMA's planned activities, based on its enhanced role, to respond to the challenges faced by the EU, its citizens and capital markets including developing a large retail investor base to support the CMU, promoting sustainable finance and long-term oriented markets, dealing with the opportunities and risks posed by digitalisation, the EU's role in international finance and ensuring a proportionate approach to regulation.
Vanguard set to enter UK investment advice industry
January 9, 2020--The US manager known for low-cost passive funds moves to shake up wealth management sector.
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ESMA assesses EU financial market impact of circuit breakers
January 7, 2020--The European Securities and Markets Regulator (ESMA), the EU's securities markets regulator, today publishes a study on the market impacts of circuit breakers.
Sudden and drastic price swings in financial markets can be a source of market instability and are a concern for market participants, supervisors and regulators. Circuit breakers are key instruments used by trading venues to regulate markets and interrupt excessive price movements.
Amun Research Newsletter-Issue 36
January 7, 2020--Market Outlook
Needless to say, the crypto asset market has been off to a strong start thus far in 2020 with the entire crypto asset market posting extremely positive returns.
The key drivers of this early growth have been increased geopolitical tensions due to escalations of the conflict between the United States and Iran. Even today, Tuesday December 7, the market has surged, with Bitcoin up by 4.55% as investors seem to be increasingly seeing Bitcoin as a viable alternative to gold as a hedge against global instability-though gold's reaction to the tensions has been also noticeably strong in the last few days.
The performance of the top five crypto assets is a follows: BTC (7.42%), ETH (9.67%), XRP (15.02%), BCH (17.45%), and LTC (8.25%).
National Statistics: UK official holdings of international reserves: December 2019
January 6, 2020--This monthly release shows details of movements in the UK's official holdings of international reserves, or assets. These consist of gold, foreign currency assets and International Monetary Fund assets.
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Passive investing boom reaches Europe as assets hit $1tn
January 5, 2019--The assets held in exchange traded funds in Europe surged beyond the $1 trillion mark for the first time as disenchantment with stockpickers grows.
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High demand prompts launch of Europe's first cannabis ETF
January 5. 2020--Similar products in North America have proved popular despite a poor year for the sector
European savers will soon be offered their first opportunity to invest in an exchange traded fund focused on the fast-growing legal marijuana industry.
Canadian fund group Purpose Investments plans to launch the Medical Cannabis and Wellness ETF from January 13, which will be Europe's first such product. The fund will be listed in Germany and made available to investors in the UK, Italy and Ireland.
Monetary developments in the euro area: November 2019
January 3, 2010--Annual growth rate of broad monetary aggregate M3 stood at 5.6% in November 2019, after 5.7% in October 2019 (revised from 5.6%)
Annual growth rate of narrower monetary aggregate M1, comprising currency in circulation and overnight deposits, stood at 8.3% in November, compared with 8.4% in October
Annual growth rate of adjusted loans to households stood at 3.5% in November, unchanged from previous month
Annual growth rate of adjusted loans to non-financial corporations decreased to 3.4% in November from 3.8% in October
IMF Staff Country Report-Turkey: Selected Issues
December 26, 2019--1. Turkey's economy has grown rapidly over the past decade, mainly by increasing inputs. With an average annual real growth of around 5½ percent over the last 10 years, Turkey has been one of the fastest growing economies in G20 and other larger emerging markets. However, growth has become more unbalanced. Strong post-2009 output growth has been largely due to increased capital accumulation, driven by construction investment activities and financed, in large part externally, and by rapid credit growth.
Labor inputs also contributed positively to growth, supported by a pick-up in female labor force participation-but its contribution appears to have leveled off in recent years. Over the same period, the high investment rate (greater than the neo-classical golden rule benchmark would suggest), together with high inflation and elevated private sector and external debt, point to past over-investment.1