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Fee war goes global as $1.6 trillion manager cuts ETF costs
March 14, 2019--Europe's biggest money manager is joining the global arms race to offer investors the cheapest exchange-traded funds around.
Paris-based Amundi listed nine ETFs this week that charge the equivalent of 50 cents for every $1,000 invested. That's a mere 10 cents more than Lyxor Asset Management asks for products that set a record low in the region last year, data compiled by Bloomberg show.
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Source: pionline.com
Spanish Stock Exchange to Go Live With Blockchain Collateral Pledge Certificates
March 14, 2019--Bolsa de Madrid (BME), Spain's largest stock exchange, said it expects to go live by year-end with a blockchain-based system for certifying collateral pledges after testing the technology.
The test "has shown a reduction in the total times of end-to-end processes exceeding 80 percent," BME said Thursday, as well as the potential to radically improve the participants' operational and risk management. The system allows market participants to avoid exchanging paper certificates and monitor the process in real time, the exchange said.
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Source: coindesk.com
Backstage: 5G deployment in Europe
March 21, 2019--The next wave of mobile network innovation is provoking great excitement in the industry. And indeed, there is substantial potential for improvement. However, the exact form of the technology and the appropriate policy support are still far from clear.
The next generation of mobile technology, 5G, is being developed along markedly different lines from previous generations. In the past, mobile generations were generally characterised by a core technology (or sometimes by two or more core technologies), and were designed to fulfil the requirements of a fairly small number of mobile voice and data applications. By contrast, 5G is being developed to fulfil the needs of multiple use cases.
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Source: Bruegel
New iShares ETFs on Xetra: Sustainable Emerging Markets Government Bonds and Corporate Bonds Worldwide
March 13, 2019--Since Wednesday, two further iShares ETFs are tradable via Xetra and Börse Frankfurt.
The iShares J.P. Morgan ESG USD EM Bond UCITS ETF USD (Dist) allows investors to participate in the performance of US dollar-denominated government or quasi-government bonds of emerging markets.
The reference index includes government bonds with a high ESG rating. Issuers that have any interest in coal, tobacco or weapons and are named as violators of the United Nations Global Impact Principles for Corporate Sustainability are excluded from the index.
The iShares USD Corp Bond SRI 0-3yr UCITS ETF USD (Dist) allows investors to participate in the performance of investment grade US dollar-denominated corporate bonds with a residual maturity of three years or less and a minimum outstanding amount of US-Dollar 300 million.
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Source: Deutsche Börse Group
UBS AM launches inflation protection ETF
March 13, 2019--UBS Asset Management has launched a long duration US Treasury inflation linked ETF with embedded GBP-hedging on the London and Swiss stock exchanges.
The new fund broadens its inflation protection offering and enables pound sterling investors to position themselves in anticipation of potentially higher US inflation rates while mitigating foreign exchange risk.
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Source: citywireselector.com
Lyxor receivesTEEC certification for the Lyxor Green Bond (DR) UCITS ETF
March 13, 2019--Lyxor Asset Management has received the TEEC (energy and ecological transition for the climate) certification for the Lyxor Green Bond (DR) UCITS ETF, the world's first ETF[1] offering investors exposure to investment grade green bonds.
Launched two years ago on the basis of a Solactive index with support from the Climate Bonds Initiative, the Green Bond ETF is the first ETF to receive this label.
Introduced by the French government at the end of 2015 following the COP21, TEEC is the first national certification for private investment in the green economy.
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Source: Lyxor
Amundi to licence Solactive Flagship Equity and Fixed Income Indices
March 13, 2019--Solactive is pleased to announce that Amundi, Europe's largest asset management company with a total of € 1.425 tn in AuM, appointed Solactive as their index provider for the launch of their new ETF range, labeled "Amundi Prime ETF".
The new series contains nine Equity and Fixed Income ETFs, all utilizing Solactive indices as their underlying, and captivates with a progressive low-fee approach featuring just 0.05 percent of ongoing charges, corroborating the seismic shift in the ETF industry towards offering low-cost alternatives.
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Source: Solactive
Lyxor-Money Monitor February 2019 European ETFs flows accelerate
March 13, 2019--Net new assets in the European ETF market accelerated in February to reach €13.7bn. All categories (equities, fixed income, commodities and smart beta) enjoyed a positive month for the first time since last February. Equities attracted most of the inflows (€8.2bn) with three regions standing out: developed markets (+€2.8bn), global equities (+€3.4bn) and emerging markets (+€1.9bn).
Fixed income ETFs continued to enjoy massive inflows (+€5.4bn) driven by corporate bonds and emerging market government bonds (+€1.8bn and +€1.4bn respectively). Flows into Smart Beta strategies slowed but remained positive (+€462m) and commodities (+€200m) finally ended a month in the black after seven successive negative months
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Source: Lyxor
IMF-Greece: Economy Improves, Key Reforms Still Needed
March 12, 2019--Greece has now entered a period of economic growth that puts it among the top performers in the eurozone. It must now persevere with efforts to address crisis legacies and pursue needed reforms to ensure continued success, says the IMF in its recent assessment of the country's economy.
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Source: IMF
Business 'exasperated' after Brexit vote
March 12, 2019--Business groups are "exasperated" after the Prime Minister's EU withdrawal plan was again rejected by Parliament.
They called on MPs to shut down the possibility of a no-deal Brexit and come up with a clear EU exit plan.
The City UK, the finance industry body, said leaving without a deal "would be an own goal of historic proportions".
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Source: BBC