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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
Solactive Industry 4.0 Index Has Been Launched!
August 14, 2018--Solactive is pleased to announce the launch of the Solactive Industry 4.0 Index, an index tracking the performance of companies that are operating in any of the following segments: Advanced Robotics, Augmented Reality & 3D Printing, Cloud & Big Data, Cyber Security and Internet of Things (IoT) (together the "Index Categories").
From each of the five index categories the index selects the top 10 companies based on the market capitalization and/or their R&D to Sales ratio. Each of the five index categories and their individual components are weighted equally.
Industry 4.0 is the interconnection and total automatization of a factory towards an autonomous machine economy in which machines interact with each other without human intervention. With 3D printing, fabrication of components becomes much more flexible, cost effective, distributed, and on-demand.
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Source: Solactive AG
STOXX licenses fully automated Blockchain Index to Coincapital
August 14, 2018--STOXX Ltd., the operator of Deutsche Boerse Group's index business and a global provider of innovative and tradable index concepts, has licensed the STOXX(R) Yewno Developed Markets Blockchain Index to Toronto, Canada-based Coin Capital Investment Management Inc. (Coincapital).
The index uses artificial intelligence to select its constituents. It is comprised of companies from a wide range of industries that invest heavily in the development of blockchain-related technologies, and are therefore considered to be well-positioned to benefit from their increased adoption. The key criterion used in the selection process is patent filings related to blockchain intellectual property (IP). This makes it possible to identify both blockchain innovators and adopters.
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Source: STOXX
Thomson Reuters-Monday Morning Memo: Has ESG gone mainstream?
August 13, 2018--The announcement that the world's largest fund management company-BlackRock-will require its fund managers to consider environmental, social, and governance (ESG) criteria in their investment decision-making process has been discussed widely in the trade press over the last few days.
But what does this move mean for investors and specialized responsible/sustainable investment products as a whole?
First of all, it needs to be said that BlackRock was not the first asset manager to launch such an initiative for its portfolio managers; other leading fund management companies such as the German DWS (formerly Deutsche Asset and Wealth Management), the Swiss UBS, and others launched such initiatives before the U.S. giant did.
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Source: Detlef Glow, Thomson Reuters
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