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Solactive strengthens ties with LGIM launching a new suite of equity and fixed-income ESG indices
June 18, 2018--Solactive has released the Solactive L&G ESG Index Family targeted at investors who wish to go further in integrating ESG factors into their investment strategy.
This launch is the result of collaboration between Solactive and Legal & General Investment Management (LGIM), which combines LGIM’s proprietary Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) scoring system- with Solactive's multi-asset expertise in the development of innovative indices.
With this new launch, Solactive expands its range of ESG indices, offering exposure to each region in the Developed Markets Equity universe, including Asia-Pacific, Europe, Japan, North America, and the UK.
Thomson Reuters-Monday Morning Memo: Review of the European ETF Market, May 2018
June 18, 2018--The promoters of ETFs in Europe enjoyed net inflows for May, which in combination with a generally positive market environment, led to increasing assets under management in the European ETF industry (€663.7 bn, up from €651.9 bn at the end of April 2018).
The increase of €11.8 bn for May was driven by the performance of the underlying markets (+€10.3 bn), while net sales contributed €1.5 bn to the increase in assets under management in the European ETF segment.
With regard to the overall number of products, it was not surprising that equity funds (€475.9 bn) held the majority of the assets, followed by bond funds (€155.8 bn), commodity products (€21.0 bn), "other" funds (€6.6 bn), money market funds (€3.4 bn), mixed-asset funds (€0.7 bn), and alternative UCITS products (€0.4 bn).
Britain's FCA to probe impact of EU asset management rules
June 18, 2018--Britain's regulator will launch an investigation into the impact of new European Union rules on the asset management industry after concerns were raised about how they affect the pricing of investment research and other issues.
The change in rules was aimed at pushing more stock trading onto regulated public exchanges, where prices are visible to all, and giving retail investors more information about potential investment returns.
The rules-the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) and the Packaged Retail and Insurance-based Investment Products (PRIIPs) Regulation-for some funds, came into force in January.view more
Europe's First Smart Beta China A-Shares ETF Launches
June 18, 2018--China Post Global announced today the launch of the Market Access STOXX(R) China A Minimum Variance Index UCITS ETF (ISIN LU1750178011). The new ETF implements a minimum variance approach to China's onshore stock market and is the first smart beta ETF on China to launch in Europe.
The fund will track the performance of the STOXX(R) China A 900 Minimum Variance Unconstrained AM index which selects and weights stocks listed on the Shanghai and Shenzhen stock exchanges based on their volatility and how heavily they are traded on exchange, with the aim of reducing overall index volatility.
IMF Staff Country Reports Switzerland : Selected Issues
June 18, 2018--TAXATION OF CORPORATIONS IN SWITZERLAND1
A. Introduction
1. The Swiss government is proposing a major tax reform, primarily of the corporate income tax (CIT). On March 21, 2018, the Swiss Federal Council made a proposal to reform the CIT
(known as 'Tax Proposal 17'), after the rejection of a previous reform plan ('Corporate Tax Reform III') in a popular vote in February 2017.
It is foreseen that Parliament will decide on the reform this year.
According to the current schedule, the major part of the reform could enter into force in 2020 at the earliest.2
2. The substance and timing of the proposed reform were triggered by international developments in corporate taxation. In particular, Switzerland is committed to meet international minimum standards of the CIT set out in the G-20 OECD Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) project, including Action item 5 on "countering harmful tax practices more effectively, taking into account transparency and substance". Existing preferential tax regimes in Switzerland no longer conform to these international standards. Further, the Council of the EU, in its December 2017 conclusions, included Switzerland in the group of cooperative countries, subject to the successful delivery of its commitments ('grey list').3
view the IMF Staff Country Reports Switzerland : Selected Issues
Blackrock amends derivatives policy on retail funds
June 15, 2018--Blackrock has written to investors to announce it is expanding the use of derivatives on its Luxembourg and UK domiciled retail fund ranges.
The Blackrock Global Funds (BGF) range and the retail authorised unit trusts range may now use derivatives for investment purposes, whereas previous policy only allowed the financial instruments to be used for efficient portfolio management purposes.
First Smart Beta ETF on Chinese Stock Corporations launched by Market Access on Xetra
June 15, 2018--A new exchange traded fund issued by Market Access is tradable on Xetra and Börse Frankfurt as of today.
The smart beta ETF enables investors for the first time to participate in the performance of a portfolio of Chinese stock corporations with low variance. The benchmark index contains renminbi-denominated company shares traded on the Shanghai Stock Exchange or the Shenzhen Stock Exchange (A-shares).
Selection and weighting of the index components are aimed at reducing the risk or volatility of the benchmark index. The weighting of each index component is capped at 8 per cent.
Name: Market Access Stoxx China A Minimum Variance Index UCITS ETF-EUR Share Class
Asset class: equity index ETF
ISIN: LU1750178011
Erster Smart-Beta-ETF auf chinesische Aktienunternehmen von Market Access auf Xetra gestartet
15. Jun 2018--Seit Freitag ist ein neuer Exchange Traded Fund des Emittenten Market Access auf Xetra und Börse Frankfurt handelbar.
Mit dem neuen Smart-Beta-ETF erhalten Anleger erstmals die Möglichkeit, an der Wertentwicklung eines Portfolios von chinesischen Aktienunternehmen mit geringer Varianz zu partizipieren.
Der Referenzindex enthält Aktien von Unternehmen, die an der Shanghai Stock Exchange oder an der Shenzhen Stock Exchange in Renminbi gehandelt werden (A-Shares). Die Auswahl und Gewichtung der Indexbestandteile zielt auf eine Reduzierung des Risikos bzw. der Volatilität des Referenzindex ab. Die Gewichtung eines Indexbestandteils beträgt maximal 8 Prozent.
Name: Market Access Stoxx China A Minimum Variance Index UCITS ETF-EUR Share Class
Anlageklasse: Aktienindex-ETF
LSE ETP May 2018 Monthly Report
June 15, 2018--June 15, 2018--Listings
20 new ETFs were listed on LSE in May, making a total of 171 new ETP listings in 2018.
There are now 1062 ETFs (available as 1,567 lines through multi-currency offerings) and 487 other ETPs (available as 579 lines) on our London market.
Lyxor listed 4 ESG ETFs to provide investors with exposure to the performance of high ESG-rated companies from World, US, EMU and emerging markets.
Lyxor also listed the Lxyor Scientific Beta Developed Long/Short UCITS ETF aiming to generate absolute performance with limited volatility and low correlation with the broad equity market.
Xtrackers introduced 4 ESG ETFs giving exposure to World, Japan, US and Europe.
iShares launched the iShares MSCI India UCITS ETF, which enables exposure to large and mid-capitalisation stocks of the Indian equity markets. iShares also listed the iShares S&P US Banks UCITS ETF tracking the S&P 900 Banks (Industry) 7/4 Capped Index.
WisdomTree brought world's first CoCo bond ETF the WisdomTree AT1 CoCo Bond UCITS ETF which covers contingent convertible (CoCo) bonds issued by financial institutions from developed European countries. WisdomTree also brought the WisdomTree CBOE S&P 500 PutWrite UCITS ETF, employing a strategy of selling S&P 500 put options and investing the proceeds in treasury bills.
Vanguard added the Vanguard USD Corporate 1-3 Year Bond UCITS ETF, tracking the performance of a broad spread of USD denominated bonds paying a fixed rate of interest which are issued by companies.
Invesco PowerShares listed the Invesco USD Floating Rate Note UCITS ETF, which will track the performance of globally issued investment grade, USD denominated, floating rate notes issued by corporate issuers.
Tradeweb European Exchange-Traded Funds Update-May 2018
June 15, 2018--The following data is derived from trading activity on the Tradeweb European-listed ETF platform.
ETF total traded volume
May proved to be the second strongest month on record for the Tradeweb European-listed ETF marketplace since its launch in October 2012.
Total traded volume amounted to €22.38 billion, while the proportion of transactions processed via Tradeweb’s Automated Intelligent Execution tool (AiEX) remained high at 33.2%.
Adriano Pace, head of equities (Europe) at Tradeweb, said: "As the month drew to a close, platform activity accelerated amid heightened market volatility driven by political developments in Italy and Spain. More than €6 billion was executed in the last three days of May alone, which translates into 27% of the entire monthly flow."
