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Thomson Reuters-Monday Morning Memo: Review of the European ETF Market in 2017
January 15, 2018--The European ETF industry enjoyed further increasing popularity with all kinds of investors in 2017. This popularity was seen also in the development of the assets under management; assets held by the European ETF industry increased for a sixth consecutive year and marked a new all-time high at €631.2 bn at the end of December 2017.
With regard to the overall number of products, it was not surprising that equity funds (€448.8 bn) held the majority of the assets, followed by bond funds (€153.3 bn), commodity products (€18.4 bn), "other" funds (€6.7 bn), money market funds (€3.1 bn), mixed-asset funds (€0.6 bn), and alternative UCITS products (€0.4 bn). It was noteworthy that the assets under management increased for all asset types over the course of the year 2017.
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Source: Thomson Reuters
China Post Global lists iStoxx MUTB Japan Quality ETF on LSE
January 15, 2018--China Post Global has cross-listed the Market Access iStoxx MUTB Japan Quality 150 Index UCITS ETF (MAJQ LN) on the London Stock Exchange.
The ETF is the first product China Post Global has listed on the LSE since it acquired the Market Access range of ETFs from Royal Bank of Scotland in 2016.
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Source: etfstrategy.co.uk
LSE December 2017 ETP Monthly Report
January 15, 2018--January 15, 2018--Listings
December was the busiest month of 2017 for listings with 10 new ETFs and 27 new ETNs being listed on LSE, making a total of 177 new listings in 2017.
There are now 969 ETFs (available as 1,445 lines through multi-currency offerings) and 413 other ETPs (available as 480 lines) on our London market.
Pleased to welcome Leverage Shares as a new ETP issuer on LSE who brought 25 single stock ETPs. All these products give 2 times leveraged exposure to the performance of each single US stock, for instance, Facebook, Amazon, Apple etc.
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Source: London Stock Exchange Group
JPMAM continues to expand ETF team
January 15, 2018--JP Morgan Asset Management (JPMAM) has expanded its ETF team with three hires.
The firm has appointed Olivier Paquier as head of continental Europe ETF distribution, Ivan Durdevic as head of ETF distribution Switzerland and John Harrington as head of beta and ETF product.
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Source: portfolio-adviser.com
Flow Traders releases December 2017 ETP market volumes
January 12, 2018--Flow Traders N.V. ("Flow Traders") (Euronext: FLOW), today releases the monthly ETP (Exchange Traded Products) market data for the month December 2017. This refers to general market data only.
In December 2017, the total Global ETP Assets under Management (AuM) grew to US$ 4,758bn from US$ 4,661bn in November (+2.08% month-on-month, source: BlackRock ETP Landscape December 2017).
That translates into a total Global ETP AuM in euro terms of € 3,962bn in December 2017 versus € 3,909bn in November 2017, with an EUR/USD FX rate of 1.2008 (rate end December 2017).
The average VIX for the month of December reached 10.17 (versus 10.57 in November), with an intraday low of 8.90 (versus 8.56 as a low in November) and an intraday high of 14.58 (versus 14.51 in November)
(Source: Bloomberg).
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Source: Flow Traders N.V.
Tradeweb European Exchange-Traded Funds Update-December 2017
January 12, 2018--The following data is derived from trading activity on the Tradeweb European-listed ETF platform.
ETF total traded volume
December's activity on the Tradeweb European ETF marketplace reached €10.9 billion despite lower than average market volatility and the holiday season effect.
Adriano Pace, managing director for equity derivatives at Tradeweb, said: "December marked the end of another record-breaking year for our platform, with more than €165 billion executed in European-listed ETFs throughout 2017, an increase of 23% from 2016. The number of clients trading ETFs on the platform was also up by 13%, while the number of dealers providing ETF liquidity climbed to 29."
December also saw the proportion of European ETF transactions processed using Tradeweb's automated intelligent execution tool (AiEX) increase to 31.3%, surpassing November's figure by two percentage points.
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Source: Tradeweb
European ETF market leaps 40% in strongest showing since 2009
January 11, 2018--We are just starting the journey the US has seen, says BlackRock senior manager
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Source: FT.com
ESMA raises concerns on fees charged by CRAs and Trade Repositories
January 11, 2018--The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has published a Thematic Report on fees charged by Credit Rating Agencies (CRAs) and Trade Repositories (TRs), following the conclusion of ESMA's supervisory review of the current fee structures in the credit rating and trade repository industries.
In conducting its review, ESMA has collected and analysed information from publically available resources, periodical submissions to ESMA and dedicated requests for information from supervised entities. ESMA also maintained regular engagement with users of credit rating and trade repositories services who provided further information.
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Source: ESMA
Brexit: UK could lose half a million jobs with no deal, says Sadiq Khan
January 11, 2018--Analysis commissioned by London mayor predicts 'lost decade' of slump and lower employment with hard Brexit
A no-deal Brexit could cause the UK to lose half a million jobs and nearly £50bn in investment by 2030, according to an economic forecast commissioned by the mayor of London, Sadiq Khan.
The report, which models five possible scenarios for leaving the EU ranging from a near-status-quo situation to leaving on World Trade Organisation terms without any transition agreement, warns that the worst option could be a "lost decade" of economic slump.
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In the United States the yield curve was at its flattest in almost a decade, with the ten-year Treasury bond yielding less than 60 basis points above the two-year Treasury bond, whereas at the start of 2017 the spread between the yields of the two bond maturities had been 125 basis points. The spread between German government bond yields for the ten and two-year maturities had hovered around 100 basis points.
Source: ECB
