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Xetra-15 years as Europe's leading ETF trading venue
1,057 ETFs now on offer/Record turnover for Q1
April 7, 2015--On 11 April 2000, Deutsche Börse became the first European stock exchange to offer trading in exchange-traded funds (ETFs) with its XTF segment.
Xetra has since established itself as Europe's leading trading venue for ETFs. The segment has seen impressive growth in the past 15 years to today's 1,057 listed ETFs from 19 providers, fund assets under management of EUR 331.6 billion and an average monthly trading volume of EUR 17 billion in 2015. ETFs on Xetra also set a new turnover record for Q1 of EUR 51.1 billion in the first three months of this year.
New iShares ETF launched on Xetra
ETF offers access to Japanese stock corporations with currency hedging
April 7, 2015--A new equity index fund from BlackRock has been tradable on Xetra in Deutsche Börse's XTF segment since Tuesday.
Name: iShares JPX-Nikkei 400 EUR Hedged UCITS ETF
Asset class: equity ETF
ISIN: IE00BQT3W831
Total expense ratio: 0.45 percent
Distribution policy: accumulating
Benchmark: JPX-Nikkei 400 Net Total Return EUR Hedged Index
The iShares JPX-Nikkei 400 EUR Hedged UCITS ETF enables investors to participate in the performance of the JPX-Nikkei 400 Index while hedged against EUR exchange-rate risks.
Northern Trust Monthly Funds Market Review: New Irish fund structure officially launched/Record highs for assets in European listed ETPs/Northern Trust voted Best European ETF Fund Administrator
April 7, 2015--Th Monthly Funds Market Review from Northern Trust is now available for download.
This month's highlights include:
New Irish fund structure officially launched
Northern Trust voted Best European ETF Fund Administrator
Record highs for assets in European listed ETPs research says
Hedge funds expect most growth from pension schemes
Mixed asset tops sales as European funds industry rebounds
Hedge fund assets set to surpass US$3 trillion in 2015
Shadow banking sector to grow in 2015
Advertising data reveal big fund house spenders
April 5, 2015--Advertising spending by Invesco Perpetual tripled last year.
The group embarked on a charm offensive to bolster its brand following the departure of Neil Woodford, the company’s star fund manager.
ECB says QE programme already boosting recovery
April 3, 2015--The European Central Bank said Thursday it is increasingly confident that its controversial bond purchase programme is helping boost the eurozone's economic recovery, even as a top official expressed doubts about its effectiveness.
In the minutes of the governing council's meeting on March 4 and 5 released on Thursday, the ECB said that "members generally shared the assessment that significant positive effects...could already be seen" from the new bond purchase programme known as quantitative easing (QE).
ECB says national central banks have flexibility on quantitative easing bond loans
April 2, 2015--The ECB laid out plans on Thursday to make bonds bought in its 1 trillion-euro stimulus programme available for borrowing, but said national central banks would have some flexibility in how they applied them.
As part of a plan to keep its 1 1/2-year quantitative easing plan from distorting bond markets, the ECB set out a 'securities lending' framework that will initially see itself and eight of the 19 national euro zone central banks lending bonds.
OECD-France must continue its reform process to boost growth and jobs
April 2, 2015--France has begun implementing a series of important pro-growth structural policy measures, but boosting medium-term growth will require more ambitious action to reform the labour market, curb high levels of public spending and taxation and create jobs, according to the latest OECD Economic Survey of France.
The Survey, presented in Paris by OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurría and French Minister of Finance and Public Accounts Michel Sapin, points out that France’s annual per capita GDP growth has been below the OECD average for the better part of two decades and unemployment has been well above the OECD average.
view the Overview of the Economic Survey of France
HM Treasury-Statistics-national statistics: GDP deflators at market prices, and money GDP: March 2015
April 2, 2015--HM Treasury Statistics-national statistics: GDP deflators at market prices, and money GDP: March 2015(Quarterly National Accounts)is now available.
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Top ECB official sceptical about bond purchases: report
April 2, 2015--One of the members of the European Central Bank's executive board, Sabine Lautenschlaeger, expressed doubt Thursday that the ECB's controversial bond purchase programme will have the desired effect.
"Given the current low level of interest rates in the Eurozone, I have doubts whether the economic effects of the purchase programme will reach the desired magnitude," Lautenschlaeger told the weekly magazine WirtschaftsWoche in an interview.
Boerse Stuttgart generates turnover of around EUR 10.9 billion in March
April 2, 2015--Highest trading volume since August 2011/Record turnover from trading in equities and exchange-traded products
According to its order book statistics, turnover at Boerse Stuttgart amounted to around EUR 10.9 billion in March 2015. The trading volume was higher than in any month since August 011. Turnover was up around 27 percent in comparison with February, and more than 33 percent year-on-year.
