New crypto ETN by 21Shares on Xetra: basket of five largest crypto assets equally weighted
July 6, 2023--Since Thursday, a new crypto ETN by 21Shares has been tradable on Xetra and via the Börse Frankfurt trading venue
The 21Shares Crypto Basket Equal Weight ETP offers investors the opportunity to participate in the performance of a basket of the five largest crypto stocks by market capitalisation.
The following crypto stocks are currently included: Binance Coin, Bitcoin, Cardano, Ethereum, and Ripple. The composition is rebalanced quarterly to 20 per cent per asset.
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Source: Xetra
Solactive and Franklin Templeton Collaborate to Launch Two Thematic ETFs Targeting Sustainable Companies Across Food and Healthcare
July 6, 2023--Solactive and Franklin Templeton are excited to announce their partnership in launching two new exchange-traded funds (ETFs) tracking Solactive indices. Designed to offer investors focused exposure to the dynamic food and healthcare sectors, these ETFs will use the Solactive Sustainable Food Index NTR (net total return) and the Solactive Sustainable Health and Wellness Index NTR.
By leveraging Solactive's indexing expertise and Franklin Templeton's investment capabilities, these ETFs are poised to meet the evolving needs of investors seeking long-term growth and sustainability.
According to research from Statista, the health and wellness market size worldwide was at more than $4.37 trillion in 2020 and is set to grow to almost $7 trillion by 20251. The food market revenue reached $8.67 billion in 20222 and is forecast to grow annually at a rate of 6.73% until 20283. To tap into that potential while, at the same time, considering the importance of ESG factors in investment decision-making, the indices aim to capture the performance of companies at the forefront of driving innovation and sustainability within those sectors. Both indices use Solactive’s proprietary Natural Language Processing (NLP) Engine ARTIS, which is utilizing advanced algorithms to parse high volumes of public documents evaluating companies’ exposure to the segments.
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Source: Solactive AG
ESMA publishes second overview of national rules governing fund marketing
July 6, 2023--Key findings:
The transposition of the Directive on cross-border distribution of funds and the entry into force of the ESMA Guidelines on funds' marketing communications helped reach a greater level of harmonisation in areas where national divergences existed (identified in the first ESMA Report submitted in 2021).
Despite the powers NCAs have under the Regulation, it is apparent that only a limited number of NCAs carried out any ex-ante verifications of marketing communications, while an increasing number of NCAs reported carrying out ex-post verifications.
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Source: ESMA
ESMA and NCAs to assess disclosures and sustainability risks in the investment fund sector
July 6, 2023--The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), the EU's financial markets regulator and supervisor, is today launching a Common Supervisory Action (CSA) with National Competent Authorities (NCAs) on sustainability-related disclosures and the integration of sustainability risks.
The goal is to assess the compliance of supervised asset managers with the relevant provisions in the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR), the Taxonomy Regulation and relevant implementing measures, including the relevant provision in the UCITS and AIFMD implementing acts on the integration of sustainability risks.
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Source: ESMA
ESMA publishes latest edition of its newsletter
July 6, 2023--The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), the EU's financial markets regulator and supervisor, has today published its latest edition of the Spotlight on Markets Newsletter.
Your one-stop-shop in the world of EU financial markets focused in June on important topics such as the launch of the ESMA Data Strategy 2023-2028, the release of the 2022 Annual Report and our first corporate video. With the Data Strategy, we want to contribute to reducing the compliance burden for companies and facilitate data reporting by means of increased standardisation and the use of modern IT solutions across the reporting process and the entire data lifecycle.
ESMA's key achievements mentioned in the Annual Report included developing its new Strategy which will guide its work over the years 2023-2028. ESMA also delivered extensive work throughout the year to respond to the consequences of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
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Source: ESMA
Can Europe make its space launch industry competitive?
July 5, 2023--Europe is falling behind in the global commercial space launch sector; a new programme may not be enough to fix the shortcomings
Pressure on the European space sector from foreign competitors, primarily the United States and China, has led to a rethinking of Europe's space policy.
As part of this, the European Space Agency (ESA), with a membership made up largely of European Union countries, announced in May 2023 the Commercial Cargo Transportation Initiative (CCTI), a call for European companies to develop commercially-sound cargo transportation systems.
European satellite infrastructure, Europe's presence in the International Space Station (ISS) and all exploration and scientific missions depend on transportation into orbit, on which ESA will spend 12.6 percent of its €7 billion budget in 2023.
The hope is that CCTI will stimulate companies to do something Europe has not yet done: develop its own cheap, reusable rocket. In doing this, CCTI is a bid to replicate in Europe the success of NASA’s Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) programme, which ran from 2006 to 2013 and succeeded in substantially lowering the costs for NASA of getting into orbit by engaging private companies in the development and operation of space transportation systems.
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Source: bruegel.org
Research: UK official holdings of international reserves: June 2023
July 5, 2023--This release details movements in the international reserves of gold and assets held by the UK Government.
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Source: gov.uk
New Equity ETF by HANetf on Xetra: Access to the global defence sector for NATO and associated countries
July 4, 2023--Since Tuesday a new Exchange Traded Fund by HANetf is tradable on Xetra and via the Börse Frankfurt trading venue.
The Future of Defence UCITS ETF offers investors direct access to a globally diversified portfolio of 41 companies based in a NATO or an associated country and generating their revenues in the defence sector.
All companies must generate at least 50 per cent of their revenues through the development and production of military planes, military equipment or cyber security contracs with a Nato member or an associated state.
The weighting of each asset is limited to 5 per cent for each company and 50 per cent for each country.
Name: Name
ISIN: IE000OJ5TQP4
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Source: Xetra
ESMA publishes second overview of national rules governing fund marketing
July 3, 2023--The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), the EU securities markets regulator and supervisor, has submitted to the European Parliament, the Council and the European Commission its second report on national rules governing the marketing of investment funds under the Regulation on cross-border distribution of funds.
The key findings are the following:
The transposition of the Directive on cross-border distribution of funds and the entry into force of the ESMA Guidelines on funds' marketing communications helped reach a greater level of harmonisation in areas where national divergences existed (identified in the first ESMA Report submitted in 2021).
Despite the powers NCAs have under the Regulation, it is apparent that only a limited number of NCAs carried out any ex-ante verifications of marketing communications, while an increasing number of NCAs reported carrying out ex-post verifications.
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Source: ESMA
Pressure from ETFs forecast to lead to more active fund fee cuts
July 1, 2030--Average charges for European passive funds have declined faster than their active counterparts
Active funds in Europe are forecast to further lower their fees as they try to "secure their future" in the face of rising demand for low-cost passive funds, experts say.
Fabrizio Zumbo, director of European asset and wealth management research at Cerulli, said active funds had been suffering "downward pressure" on costs as they struggled to outperform their benchmarks.
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Source: ft.com
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