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EU regulation depresses bond sales to retail investors

May 17, 2019--European issuers of corporate bonds are avoiding sales to retail investors because of demanding disclosure requirements under the EU Packaged Retail and Insurance-based Investment Products regulation.

The regulation was drafted to apply to structured products, but lawyers say it has been interpreted to apply to any product...

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Source: Smartbrief


Germany: Staff Concluding Statement of the 2019 Article IV Mission

May 17, 2019--Germany's economic fundamentals are sound, public and private balance sheets are healthy, unemployment is at a historical low, wages have finally accelerated, and the large current account surplus is slowly shrinking. However, a slowdown in global demand and other temporary setbacks hit the economy unexpectedly hard in the second half of last year, highlighting its vulnerability to external shocks, notably growing international trade tensions.

From a longer-term perspective, Germany's population is aging and its technological edge is being challenged, while lower incomes have remained stagnant and the energy transition is progressing only slowly. With euro area inflation still below the European Central Bank's objective, long-term interest rates have fallen back near or below zero, putting additional pressure on banks and life insurance companies.

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Source: IMF


Raisin launches Savings Plan for German ETF investment platform

May 17, 2019--From saver to investor: building wealth, starting at €50 per month
Raisin, Europe's leading marketplace for savings and investment products, is making investing easy for everyone. Starting on its German platform WeltSparen (www.WeltSparen.de), the Berlin-based fintech Raisin is introducing a savings plan for its line of ETF portfolios.

With the new savings plan Raisin's customers in Germany will be able to build their wealth starting at just €50 per month. The company is additionally lowering the one-time minimum required investment amount to start a WeltInvest portfolio to €500. WeltInvest is the result of WeltSparen's cooperation with Vanguard as fund provider and DAB BNP Paribas. Vanguard is one of the largest providers of cost-efficient investment solutions worldwide.

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Source: Raisin GmbH


Better Finance-Efficient Portfolio Management Techniques: Attribution of profits derived from Securities Lending by UCITS Exchange-Traded Funds

May 17, 2019--BETTER FINANCE conducted research on a part of the efficient portfolio management techniques'1 employed by UCITS ETF providers. The sample is limited and may not be representative of the total EU market' but it comprises mainstream ETFs of the ten largest providers in the EU.

The efficient portfolio management technique under review is that of securities lending' by which the securities owner (in this case' the Fund' or its manager on behalf of the fund) temporarily lends its securities to a borrower' for which the borrower provides other assets in exchange as collateral and a payment (interest) for the loan period.

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Source: Better Finance


Investors renew calls for Deutsche Bank to trim investment bank

May 16, 2019-- Deutsche Bank investors are renewing calls for it to scale back its investment bank division ahead of what promises to be a challenging annual shareholder meeting next week.

The future of Deutsche Bank's investment banking operations has returned to the fore after the collapse of merger talks with smaller rival Commerzbank.

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Source: Reuters


Factor investing in fixed-income: EDHEC-Risk Institute paper shows that it is possible to build duration-timing strategies that are economically superior to bearing unconditional duration risk

May 16, 2019--The abundance of theoretical and empirical research on factor investing in the equity universe contrasts strongly with the relative scarcity of research on the existence and exploitability of risk premia in bond markets.

Recently, some managers have been focusing on risk premia in fixed income, but the academic knowledge remains limited and it seems that it is not possible to apply the same factors that have been identified for equities in a straightforward way.

It is within this context that EDHEC-Risk Institute has launched a dedicated research programme that aims to broaden the concepts of factor-investing in bond markets by i) analysing the risk factors that drive these universes, ii) finding whether they attract compensation or not, and iii) more generally, examining bond return predictability.

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view the Factor Investing in Sovereign Bond Markets-A Time-Series Perspective

Source: EDHEC-Risk Institute


Investec Closes Click & Invest Robo-Advice Service

May 16, 2019--Investment giant Investec says the appetite for robo-advice services has been lower than expected

The business, created by investment giant Investec, said appetite for the service "remains low" and that the market is growing at a slower rate than it had expected.

Investec is writing to customers who use the service to start a process to move their investments elsewhere over the next 90 days.

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Source: morningstar.co.uk


ESMA says market risk remains high but stable

May 15, 2019--The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) today publishes its latest risk dashboard for the European Union's securities markets, covering the first quarter of 2019.

It finds that the risk landscape in Q1 2019 remains largely unchanged compared to the fourth quarter of 2018.

In Q1 2019 EU securities markets were characterised by stock market recovery, combined with higher liquidity in bond markets and low volatility levels. The key risk area remains a substantive overvaluation, as the significant market correction that occurred at the end of 2018 has been reversed since the start of 2019. Market risk therefore remains very high.

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view the ESMA Risk Dashboard No. 2 2019

Source: ESMA


Forecasts for the UK economy: May 2019

May 15, 2019--A comparison of independent forecasts for the UK economy in May 2019.

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Source: gov.uk


Exchange-traded notes on Litecoin and Ripple now tradable at Boerse Stuttgart

May 13, 2019--Investors can participate in the future price development of the cryptocurrencies through exchange-traded securities
For the first time in Germany, investors can now buy and sell exchange-traded notes (ETNs) based on the cryptocurrencies Litecoin and Ripple (XRP). The four securities issued by XBT Provider in Sweden track the price of the two cryptocurrencies in relation to the euro and the Swedish krona.

'There is a lot of interest in cryptocurrencies. These ETNs will allow investors in Germany to track future price developments of the two cryptocurrencies Litecoin und Ripple (XRP) through exchange-traded securities for the first time,' explains Jülrgen Dietrich, Director Blue Chips & Funds Trading at Boerse Stuttgart.

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Source: Boerse Stuttgart


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