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IG Group continues to challenge the UK stockbroking market with ISA offering and commission fee cut

March 1, 2016--Over 1000 ETFs (Exchange Traded Funds) available to trade commission free throughout ISA season
Improved and simple commission rates from as low as £5

IG Group, a global leader in online trading, has today launched a dual assault on ISA savings and stockbroking commission rates, with clients able to trade eligible ETFs commission free during ISA season, from today until 30th April 2016, and through a significant reduction in commission rates on stockbroking trades.

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Source: IG Group


Firm predicts extinction for many active equity managers

March 1, 2016--Nick Samuels, head of equity manager research at independent pension investment consultants Redington, believes that the majority of active equity managers face extinction.

He writes that despite a decade of fierce debate over fees, many active equity managers in the UK have remained impervious to the global rise of passives.

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Source: wealthadviser.co


IG Group cuts stockbroking commission rates, offers commission-free trading on certain ETFs

March 1, 2016--Leading online trading services provider IG Group Holdings plc (LON:IGG) today announced a dual assault on ISA savings and stockbroking commission rates.

Clients of the broker will be able to trade eligible ETFs commission free during ISA season, from today until April 30, 2016, and through a substantial reduction in commission rates on stockbroking trades.

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Source: leaprate.com


ETFs listed on LSE hit record high in February

March 1, 2016--The London Stock Exchange (LSE) has announced that a record number of exchange-traded funds were listed on its platform last month.

February saw providers list 30 ETFs on the bourse with half of these focused on the fixed income sector.

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Source: etfstrategy.co.uk


Cantor Fitzgerald and IMC become latest WisdomTree Authorised Participants (AP) on UCITs platform

March 1, 2016--WisdomTree, the exchange-traded fund ("ETF") and exchange-traded product ("ETP") sponsor, and the world's largest currency-hedged ETF issuer by AUM announced that Cantor Fitzgerald and IMC have become the most

recent additions to a growing list of Authorised Participants (APs) for the WisdomTree UCITS ETF platform.

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Source: WisdomTree


The benefits of exchange-trading investment funds

February 29, 2016--A guest article from Julius Baer covers the trading segment for Sponsored Funds at SIX Swiss Exchange.

Sponsored Funds are investment funds that are traded like ETFs or Structured Products in a market making segment. In a guest contribution[pdf], the authors Beat Auerbach, Oliver Heusser, Thomas Kägi and Estelle Pool from Bank Julius Baer present the differences between the primary market and the secondary market.

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Source: SIX Swiss Exchange


Lipper Monday Morning Memo: Review of the European ETF Market, January 2016

February 29, 2016--The assets under management in the European exchange-traded fund (ETF) industry decreased from €449.0 bn to €430.3 bn during January. This decrease of €18.7 bn was driven mainly by the performance of the underlying markets (-€20.7 bn), while net sales contributed a positive €2.0 bn to the overall assets under management in the ETF segment.

With regard to the overall number of products, it was not surprising that equity funds (€299.8 bn) held the majority of the assets, followed by bond funds (€107.7 bn), commodity products (€12.2 bn), 'other" funds (€6.2 bn), money market funds (€3.5 bn), alternative UCITS products (€0.5 bn), and mixed-asset funds (€0.4 bn).

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Source: Thomson Reuters Lipper


Further information on the potential merger of equals between London Stock Exchange Group plc ("LSEG") and Deutsche Borse AG ("Deutsche Borse")

February 26, 2016--Further to the announcement on 23 February 2016, LSEG and Deutsche Börse set out below a summary of further key terms which the parties have agreed in relation to the potential merger of LSEG and Deutsche Börse (the "Potential Merger") to form a combined group (the "Combined Group"):

Combined Group to be a UK plc domiciled in London;

LSEG in London and Deutsche Börse in Frankfurt to become intermediate subsidiaries of the Combined Group;

Combined Group to have headquarters in London and Frankfurt;

Combined Group to seek a premium listing on the London Stock Exchange and prime standard listing on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange;

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Source: Deutsche Börse


European Commission-European Semester 2016: Commission publishes Country Reports

February 26, 2016--The European Commission today published its annual analysis of the economic and social challenges in the EU Member States, the so-called Country Reports.

The reports are a tool under the streamlined European Semester of economic policy coordination to monitor policy reforms and to point early on to challenges that Member States should address.

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Source: European Commission


IMF-United Kingdom: Selected Issues

February 24, 2016--HOW MUCH OF A CONCERN IS THE UK'S CURRENT ACCOUNT DEFICIT? AN ASSESSMENT OF THE UK'S EXTERNAL POSITION1
The UK's current account (CA) deficit stood at 5.1 percent of GDP in 2014, the largest in 50 years and the largest among advanced economies in 2014 as a percent of GDP.2

This chapter looks at the reasons behind the widening CA balance, how it may evolve going forward, how it affects net investment positions, and to what degree one should be concerned about it.

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Source: IMF


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