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Over 27 million Euros reported lost to crypto and forex investment scams
May 21, 2019--Over £27million lost to scams involving crypto and forex investments in 2018/19
Victims lost on average over £14,600 last financial year
Reports tripled to over 1,800 from the year before
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and Action Fraud (link is external) are warning the public to be wary of investment scams carried out via bogus online trading platforms.
This warning comes as cryptoassests (crypto) and forex investment scams reports more than tripled last year to over 1,800. Fraudsters promise high returns from investments in crypto and forex, with victims losing over £27 million in total in 2018/19.
How the scams work
Fraudsters often use social media to promote their 'get rich quick' online trading platforms. Posts often use fake celebrity endorsements and images of luxury items like expensive watches and cars. These then link to professional-looking websites where consumers are persuaded to invest.
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Source: fca.org.uk
Financial advice gap has widened since 2015, says report
May 21, 2019--The gulf between those in the UK with and without access to affordable financial advice has widened in the past 4yrs, according to a new study revealing that digital innovations have not been enough to help customers priced out of the market.
New digital services, known as robo-advisers, have emerged in the UK to fill that gap, but OpenMoney said that such services were not providing the personalised advice that customers need and “cannot replace the service provided by fully regulated financial advisers”.
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Source:fintech.io/
ATX index offering expanded with new short indices
May 21, 2019--The Vienna Stock Exchange starts today the calculation of new Short Indices on the leading index ATX, Austrian Traded Index. The new indices with a leverage of -12 and -15 are based on the ATX Total Return. The benchmark takes into account the dividend payments of its index members.
With this expanded offer, the Vienna Stock Exchange is responding to the demand of international market participants.The Vienna Stock Exchange calculates more than 140 tradable indices, 103 of which track national, regional or sector developments in the CEE and CIS countries. These indices serve more than 140 financial institutions worldwide as the basis for their products.
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Source: wienerborse.at
The latest European growth-rate estimates
May 20, 2019--The quarterly growth rate of the euro area in Q1 2018 was 0.4% (1.5% annualized), considerably higher than the low growth rates of the previous two quarters. This blog reviews the reaction to the release of these numbers and the discussion they have triggered about the euro area's economic challenges.
Two important announcements regarding European economic growth took place in the course of the last two weeks. First, Eurostat announced its preliminary flash estimate for real growth for the euro area and the EU in Q1 2019, on April 30th. And then, on May 7th, the European Commission published its Spring Economic Forecast.
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Source: Bruegel
Monday Morning Memo: Multi-Asset is Dead-Long Live Multi-Asset!
May 20, 2019--May 20, 2019--Multi-asset funds have been a hot topic for European investors since the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis because there were some funds that showed very limited losses despite the rough market environment. Investor interest reached even higher after the euro crisis in 2011 as a number of funds continued to show quite a stable performance pattern.
As multi-asset funds were the best-selling asset type in Europe overall for 2017, some market observers predicted investor interested peaked that year and may not return to those levels in the foreseeable future. Despite this, even as the overall mutual fund industry in Europe faced outflows over the course of 2018, multi-asset funds were able to gather net inflows.
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Source: Refinitiv
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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Better Finance-Efficient Portfolio Management Techniques: Attribution of profits derived from Securities Lending by UCITS Exchange-Traded Funds view more Investors renew calls for Deutsche Bank to trim investment bank view more If you are looking for a particuliar article and can not find it, please feel free to contact us
Source: Raisin GmbH
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.
Source: Better Finance
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.
Source: Reuters
