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iShares MSCI Target US Real Estate UCITS ETF launched on Xetra
ETF provides liquid access to the performance of US real estate
January 14, 2015--A new iShares mixed fund ETF from BlackRock's product offering has been tradable in Deutsche Börse's XTF segment on Xetra since Wednesday.
ETF name: iShares MSCI Target US Real Estate UCITS ETF
Asset class: mixed fund ETF
ISIN: DE000A12HP18
Total expense ratio: 0.40 percent p.a.
Distribution policy: non-distributing
Benchmark: MSCI IMI USA Liquid Real Estate Index
The iShares MSCI Target US Real Estate UCITS ETF provides investors with access to the performance of the MSCI USA Liquid Real Estate Index.
Source offers some of the lowest management fees in Europe ETFs/ETPs
January 14, 2015-Source, an investment firm and a leading provider of Exchange Traded Products (ETPs), offers some of the most competitively priced core ETP exposure including S&P500 and Eurostoxx 50 at 5bps p.a. MSCI Europe at 20bp p.a. and Physical Gold at 29bp p.a.
Today, all of the firm's core beta benchmarks are either the cheapest in Europe or extremely competitive versus their peers.
"While Source is most widely recognised for delivering innovative funds, we also believe it is important for our investors that we provide cost effective exposure to core benchmarks," explains Michael John Lytle, Chief Development Officer.
Smaller iShares role in BlackRock's Europe sales
January 14, 2015--BlackRock's exchange traded funds are accounting for a smaller proportion of the company's European-domiciled product net sales than they previously did, according to Lipper.
Despite attracting steady inflows over the last four years, BlackRock’s ETF arm only contributed 33.85 per cent to total group sales of European-domiciled products between January and September last year, compared with 82.5 per cent in 2011.
Lyxor teams up with boutique firm for Alt Ucits fund launch
January 13, 2015--French group Lyxor Asset Management has strengthened its Alternative Ucits fund range with the launch of a global emerging market long/short equity fund.
The launch as a partnership with South African hedge fund boutique Capricorn Capital Partners.
Euronext launches options on ETFs in Amsterdam
New option products offer investors an alternative low cost way of investing in broad indices
January 13, 2015--Euronext, the leading exchange in the Eurozone, today announced the launch of options on six iShares ETFs on its highly successful and innovative Amsterdam derivatives market.
The new option products will provide investors with enhanced investment opportunities in ETFs tracking a broad range of macro themes.
The European Fund for Strategic Investment: Questions and Answers
January 13, 2015--1.What did the Commission propose today, what are the elements of the proposal?
The European Commission adopted the legislative proposal to put in place the European Fund for Strategic Investments, which is at the very heart of President Juncker's €315 billion Investment Offensive.
The European Fund for Strategic Investments (EFSI) will mobilise additional investments in the real economy in areas including infrastructure, education, research, innovation, renewable energy and energy efficiency. It will also focus on SMEs and mid-cap companies (companies with between 250 and 3000 employees). The EFSI should target projects that promote job-creation, long-term growth and competitiveness. The proposal also sets up a European Investment Advisory Hub (EIAH) to provide advisory support to project identification, preparation and development across the Union. Finally, a European Investment Project Pipeline will improve investors' knowledge of existing and potential future projects, with no guarantee that these projects will be financed by the EFSI.
2. What are the next steps?
2.1 Establishing the European Fund for Strategic Investments (EFSI), the European Investment Advisory Hub (EIAH) and the transparent pipeline of projects.
Council negotiations are expected to kick-off on 19 January 2015 in an ad-hoc Working Group established for the Investment Plan for Europe. Work in the European Parliament is also expected to start shortly. It is expected that the co-legislators agree on the text by June so that the EFSI can be operational by mid-2015.
ETFGI Press Release December 2014: Europe
January 12, 2015--The European ETF/ETP industry gathered a record level of 62 billion US dollars in net new assets in 2014 according to research by ETFGI
ETFGI's research finds 2014 was a good year for the European ETF/ETP industry.
During 2014 the ETF/ETP industry in Europe gathered a record level of US$62 billion in net new asset (NNA), breaking prior full year NNA records. At the end of December 2014, the European ETF/ETP industry had 2,106 ETFs/ETPs, with 6,376 listings, from 49 providers on 26 exchanges.
New ETF offers first time access to robotics
January 12, 2015--A new equity index fund from the ETF Securities product family has been tradable in Deutsche Börse's XTF segment since Monday.
The ROBO-STOX Global Robotics and Automation GO UCITS ETF allows investors to participate in the performance of companies in the robotics and automation sector for the first time.
Three new db x-trackers bond index ETFs launched on Xetra
ETFs provide access to high yield corporate bonds
January 12, 2015--Three new db x-trackers from the ETF section of Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management have been tradable in the XTF segment on Xetra since Monday.
The db x-trackers II iBoxx EUR High Yield Bond UCITS ETF tracks the performance of the largest and most liquid corporate bonds denominated in euros. Bonds from euro-zone and non-euro-zone companies with an outstanding minimum volume of €250 million plus a remaining time to maturity of between two and 10.5 years are admitted to the reference index.
HM Treasury-national statistics: GDP deflators at market prices, and money GDP: December 2014
January 12, 2015--A series for the GDP deflator in index form is produced by the Treasury from data provided by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) and the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR).
The GDP deflator set is updated after every ONS Quarterly National Accounts release (at the end of each quarter) and whenever the OBR updates its GDP deflator forecasts (usually twice a year).
