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Market Vectors Global Junior Gold Miners Index Licensed to ProShares
Index to underlie inverse and leveraged ETFs listed on NYSE Arca
February 13, 2015--Market Vectors Index Solutions GmbH (MVIS) today announced the licensing of the Market Vectors Global Junior Gold Miners Index (MVGDXJ) to ProShares, one of the top ten providers of exchange-traded products (ETPs) in the United Sates.
The ProShares UltraShort Junior Miners ETF (GDJS) and the ProShares Ultra Junior Miners ETF (GDJJ) are listed on the New York Stock Exchange Arca and start tracking the index today.
Xetra Dax energised by GDP rebound
February 13, 2014--Industrial and financial stocks led a resurgent Xetra Dax on Friday after stronger than expected German growth data energised Frankfurt's main equities index.
A broad overall rally took it above the 11,000 point mark for the first time, to a session peak of 0.6 per cent to 11,013.8.
FTSE, Legal & General launch index series to benchmark annuity rates
February 12, 2015--Index provider FTSE and the fund arm of British insurer Legal & General on Thursday launched an index series to benchmark annuity prices.
The series, called the FTSE UK Level Annuity Index Series, will allow users to compare changes in the value of a pre-retirement fund with changes in annuity prices, FTSE said in a statement.
New UBS ETF launched on Xetra
ETF offers first-time access to euro zone equities with currency hedging against US dollar
February 12, 2015--A new exchange-listed equity index fund issued by UBS AG has been tradable in Deutsche Börse's XTF segment on Xetra since Thursday:
ETF name: UBS ETF-MSCI EMU Hedged USD UCITS ETF (USD) A-dis
Asset class: equity index ETF
ISIN: LU0937835576
Total expense ratio: 0.33 percent
Distribution policy: distributing
Benchmark: MSCI EMU 100% Hedged to USD Total Return Net
Euro area securities issues statistics
February 11, 2015--The annual rate of change of the outstanding amount of debt securities issued by euro area residents
was -0.5% in December 2014, compared with -0.9% in November.
For the outstanding amount of listed
shares issued by euro area residents, the annual growth rate was 1.6% in December 2014, the same as
in November.
New issuance of debt securities by euro area residents totalled EUR 449 billion in December 2014.
Redemptions stood at EUR 632 billion and net redemptions amounted to EUR 165 billion.1 The annual rate of change of outstanding debt securities issued by euro area residents was -0.5% in December 2014, compared with -0.9% in November.
Deutsche Börse presents policy paper on a European Capital Markets Union
February 11, 2015--Deutsche Börse presents policy paper on a European Capital Markets Unionrse Group supports efforts to create a Capital Markets Union as proposed by the President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker.
To this end, the company presented in Brussels a policy paper entitled "Principles of a European Capital Markets Union"-Deutsche Börse's contribution to the initial phase of the initiative for economic growth and greater efficiency in European capital markets.
UK lawmakers, watchdog spar over rate swaps compensation
February 10, 2015--A scheme for compensating companies mis-sold complex products by banks to shield against interest rate hikes is skewed in favour of the lenders, British lawmakers said on Tuesday.
The scheme was set up by the Financial Conduct Authority to require banks such as Lloyds, Barclays, RBS and HSBC to compensate thousands of small companies that were mis-sold products known as interest rate swaps.
Boost's short and leveraged ETP platform is the most liquid in Europe for trading oil and natural gas
February 10, 2015--Boost proved to be the S&L platform of choice for trading oil and natural gas
With the price of oil hitting $44/bl, Boost’s S&L oil ETPs traded nearly $500m in notional volume in January, 20% more than any other issuers' S&L ETPs
Boost's S&L natural gas ETPs had $375m of notional volume, more than twice any other issuer
Total notional volume across the Boost platform hit a record of $1,547m in January
The most recent rise in volume coincides with increased concerns about CFD and spread betting firms going bust
European ETFs post another record month
February 9, 2015--European ETF/ETP industry gathers $14.9bn in net new assets in January, smashing the previous record of $10.8bn set in July 2014
The ETF/ETP industry in Europe gathered $14.9bn in net new assets which is the largest amount of monthly net inflows gathered in a month, surpassing the previous record of $10.8bn in net inflows set in July 2014.
ETFs/ETPs listed in Europe gathered a record level of US$14.9 billion in net new assets in January 2015, according to ETFGI
February 9, 2015--ETFGI's new research finds the ETF/ETP industry in Europe gathered US$14.9 Bn in net new assets which is the largest amount of monthly net inflows gathered in a month, surpassing the prior record of US10.8 Bn in net inflows set in July 2014.
The European ETF/ETP industry had 2,095 ETFs/ETPs, with 6,347 listings, assets of US$466 Bn, from 50 providers on 26 exchanges according to preliminary data from ETFGI's end January 2015 global ETF and ETP industry insights report.
In January 2015, ETFs/ETPs saw net inflows of US$14.9 Bn. Equity ETFs/ETPs gathered the largest net inflows with US$9.0 Bn, followed by fixed income ETFs/ETPs with US$5.2 Bn, and commodity ETFs/ETPs with US$760 Mn.
