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State Street splits European global services leadership
August 23, 2018--The new appointments follow the promotion of Liz Nolan to chief executive officer for State Street's EMEA business in November.
State Street has announced a dual leadership structure for its European global services business, sparked by the restructuring of its senior management last year.
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Source: Thetradenews.com
ESMA defines disclosure standards under Securitisation Regulation
August 22, 2018--The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has issued today a set of draft regulatory and implementing standards (RTS/ITS) under the Securitisation Regulation, which concern the details of a securitisation to be made available by the originator, sponsor and SSPE, as well as the format and templates for doing so.
These TS contain detailed arrangements to implement the new European regulatory framework for securitisations, which is intended to promote simple, transparent and standardised (STS) securitisations.
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Source: ESMA
BlackRock names Swiss head of iShares
August 21, 2018--US funds giant BlackRock has appointed Ed Gordon as its new head of iShares and index investing for Switzerland.
Gordon, who will take up his new role in November, joins BlackRock from UBS where he has worked as head of wealth management for Israel since 2014.
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Source: funds-europe.com
Monday Morning Memo: Review of the European ETF Market, July 2018
August 20, 2018--The promoters of ETFs in Europe enjoyed net inflows for July. These inflows-in combination with a positive market environment-led to increasing assets under management in the European ETF industry. In more detail, the assets under management in the European ETF industry increased-from £662.0 bn (as of June 30, 2018) to £677.5 bn at the end of July 2018.
The increase of £15.5 bn for July was driven by the performance of the underlying markets (+£11.3 bn), while net sales contributed a positive £4.2 bn to the assets under management in the European ETF segment.
With regard to the overall number of products, it was not surprising that equity funds (£486.2 bn) held the majority of the assets, followed by bond funds (£159.7 bn), commodity products (£20.2 bn), “other” funds (£6.3 bn), money market funds (£3.6 bn), mixed-asset funds (£1.0 bn), and alternative UCITS products (£0.4 bn).
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Source: Detlef Glow, Thomson Reuters
UK warns of damage to EU without special deal on financial services
August 20, 2018--The UK has repeated its demands for a post-Brexit agreement on financial services to go way beyond the EU's current standard with third countries in a new government paper, warning that a 'hard Brexit' will damage the EU.
The paper published on Monday (20 August) insists that "ruletaking (from the EU) ...will simply not work for this sector"
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Source: euractiv.com
Mifid II impact on small and mid-cap brokers fuels consolidation talk
August 18, 2018--New European investment research rules trigger sharp drop in commissions.
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Source: FT.com
New WisdomTree-ETF on Xetra maps diversified commodity basket
August 17, 2018--Since Friday, a new Exchange Traded Fund from the issuer WisdomTree is tradable via Xetra and the Frankfurt Stock Exchange.
The WisdomTree Enhanced Commodity UCITS ETF-EUR Hedged Acc gives investors the opportunity to participate in the performance of a comprehensive commodity basket consisting of energy commodities, agricultural goods as well as industrial and precious metals. The ETF uses a hedging strategy to minimise the exchange rate risk between the base currency of the index components and the euro.
Name: WisdomTree Enhanced Commodity UCITS ETF-EUR Hedged Acc
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Source: Deutsche Börse Cash Market
Official Statistics: Forecasts for the UK economy: August 2018
August 16, 2018--A comparison of independent forecasts for the UK economy in August 2018.
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Source: HM Treasury
New SPDR-ETF on Xetra: US Companies with focus on Communications Services
August 16, 2018--Since Thursday, a new Exchange Traded Fund of the issuer State Street Global Advisors is tradable via Xetra and the Frankfurt Stock Exchange.
The SPDR S&P U.S. Communication Service Select Sector UCITS ETF gives investors the opportunity to participate in the performance of communications service providers from the USA.
Name: SPDR S&P U.S. Communication Service Select Sector UCITS ETF
Asset Class: Equity index ETF
ISIN :IE00BFWFPX50
Ongoing charges: 0,15 per cent
Distribution policy: Accumulating
Reference index: S&P Communication Services Select Sector Daily Capped 25/20 Index
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Source: Deutsche Börse Cash Market
UCITS delegation rules highlighted as a major concern for asset managers by Citi
August 16, 2018--Citi report highlights UCITS delegation rules as key issue for asset managers.
A mid-year financial regulations report from Citi has highlighted delegation rules for UCITS funds as a key issue to worry about for asset managers.
Delegation of certain asset management activities outside of a UCITS fund's domicile has become one of the many sore points in Brexit negotiations as the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) is likely to insist on having a greater role in authorising such set-ups.
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Source: globalcustodian.com