New Amundi ETFs on Xetra with focus on sustainability
November 6, 2018--Three new Amundi Exchange Traded Funds were listed on Xetra and the Börse Frankfurt venue on Tuesday.
The three new equity ETFs give investors the opportunity to participate in the performance of large and medium-sized companies with a comparatively high ESG rating.
This excludes companies related to the nuclear, weapons, tobacco, alcohol and gambling industries. The ETFs focus on the regions Europe, USA and globally.
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Source: Deutsche Börse Group
UK official holdings of international reserves: October 2018
November 5, 2018--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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Source: HM Treasury
New Invesco-Smart Beta-ETF on Xetra with focus on emerging markets
November 5, 2018--Since Monday, a new Exchange Traded Fund of the issuer Invesco has been tradable on Xetra and the Börse Frankfurt venue.
With the new Smart Beta-ETF, investors can participate in the performance of companies from emerging markets that are selected according to five factors: quality, value potential, low volatility, creditworthiness and size. The reference index contains 850 equities worldwide.
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Source: Deutsche Börse Group
Monday Morning Memo: Are European investors in crisis mode?
November 5, 2018--A brief look at the headline figures of the European fund flows over the course of the first nine months of 2018 may lead to the conclusion that European investors are in crisis mode.
ETFs have enjoyed net inflows for the year so far, while their actively managed peers have faced net outflows. Such a flow pattern has been seen before only during the global financial crisis (2008) and the euro crisis (2011).
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Source: Detlef Glow, Head of EMEA Research, Lipper
New SPDR-ETF on Xetra: S&P 500 Shares Currency Hedged
November 2, 2018--Since Thursday a new Exchange Traded Fund of the issuer State Street Global Advisors is tradable via Xetra and the Börse Frankfurt venue.
The SPDR S&P 500 EUR Hdg UCITS ETF gives investors the opportunity to participate in the performance of the S&P 500 index, which comprises the 500 largest listed companies in the USA.
The ETF uses a hedging strategy to minimise the exchange rate risk between the US dollar and the euro.
Name: SPDR S&P 500 EUR Hdg UCITS ETF (Acc)
Asset class: Equity ETF
ISIN: IE00BYYW2V44
Ongoing charges: 0,12 per cent.
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Source: Deutsche Börse Group
Cash markets achieve turnover of 171.6 billion eurox in October
November 1, 2018--Deutsche B,örse cash markets achieved a turnover of €171.6 billion in October (2017: €115.9 billion). This corresponds to a year-on-year increase of 48 percent. Of the €171.6 billion €156.7 billion were attributable to Xetra (October 2017: €102.9 billion).
The average daily turnover on Xetra was thus €7.1 billion. Order book turnover on B,örse Frankfurt totalled €3.7 billion (October 2017: €4.1 billion) and on Tradegate Exchange €11.1 billion (October 2017: €8.9 billion). Split by asset classes, cash market turnover in equities reached about €153.2 billion. Turnover in ETFs/ETCs/ETNs amounted to €16.3 billion. view more.
Source: Deutsche Börse Group
MiFID II: ESMA makes new bond liquidity data available
October 31, 2018--The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has today made available new data for bonds subject to the pre- and post-trade requirements of the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II) and Regulation (MiFIR) through its data register.
ESMA will start today to make available the third quarterly liquidity assessment for bonds available for trading on EU trading venues at the end of October. For this period, there are currently 470 liquid bonds subject to MiFID II transparency requirements.
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Source: ESMA
MiFID II: ESMA publishes data for the systematic internaliser calculations for equity, equity-like instruments and bonds
October 31, 2018--The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has published today data for the systematic internaliser calculations for equity, equity-like instruments and bonds under the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II) and Regulation (MiFIR).
More specifically, ESMA has published the total number of trades and total volume over the period April-September 2018 for the purpose of the systematic internaliser (SI) calculations for 17,999 equity and equity-like instruments and for 387,212 bonds.
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Source: ESMA
Economic and fiscal outlook: October 2018
October 31, 2018--This is the OBR's October 2018 Economic and fiscal outlook
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This is the Office for Budget Responsibility's latest Economic and fiscal outlook. It sets out forecasts for the economy and the public finances, and an assessment of whether the Government is likely to achieve its fiscal mandate, supplementary target and welfare cap.
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Source: HM Treasury
Solactive launches Broad Global Developed Government Bond Index
October 30, 2018--Solactive is pleased to announce the launch of its Solactive Broad Global Developed Government Bond TR EUR Index, a broad benchmark engineered to replicate the performance of the global developed sovereign local currency debt markets.
With this Benchmark Index, Solactive is able to substantially extend its coverage in the sovereign debt space, allowing asset managers to gain exposure to the developed sovereign debt market which has a size of over 20.5 tn USD[1]. Initially designed as an underlying for various financial instruments, the index bears the opportunity to function as a starting universe for bespoke index solutions including regional and maturity subsets as well as alternative weighting approaches and ESG tilts.
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Source: Solactive AG