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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.
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Source: European Commission
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.
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Source: ETFGI
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.
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Source: Xetra
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.
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Source: Xetra
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).
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Source: HM Treasury
London Stock Exchange ETF & ETP 2015 Annual Update
January 12, 2015--ETF & ETP Annual Update-January 2015
ETF record year
Total on-exchange value traded for ETFs in 2014 was £169.7 billion (2 million trades), up by 24% compared to last year
ETPs in Europe gathered $60.8 billion AUM in 2014, triple the amount last year
Listings
108 new ETFs and 13 new other ETPs (ETCs and ETNs) listed on London Stock Exchange in 2014
There are now 755 ETFs (available as 1,147 lines through multi-currency offerings) and 359 ETCs/ETNs (available as 410 lines) on our London market
SPDR listed 12 new ETFs in December on London Stock Exchange's-Euroclear Bank Settlement Trading Service
Other trading activity
Total on-exchange value traded for other ETPs (ETCs and ETNs) in 2014 was £16.7 billion (330,000 trades)
Market coverage
24 registered market makers provide continuous pricing and a high quality pool of liquidity on our order-book
In addition, more than 400 brokers and member firms from over 20 countries are connected to London Stock Exchange's order book and have access to trade ETFs
London Stock Exchange's ETF team is always keen to talk to all market participants and welcomes your ideas on the ways we can improve our ETF offering.
view the LSE ETF & ETP 2014 Annual Statistics Summary Report
Source: London Stock Exchange
ECB looking at risk-sharing mix for QE plan
January 9, 2015--The European Central Bank is considering a hybrid approach to government bond purchases which would combine the ECB buying debt with risk sharing across the euro zone and, in a nod to German qualms, separate purchases by national central banks.
Sources familiar with the discussions said such an option for bond-buying, also known as quantitative easing (QE), is among the tools the ECB is preparing ahead of its Jan. 22 policy meeting should it decide to act to address falling consumer prices and a growing risk of deflation in the euro zone.
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Source: Today's Zaman
ECB examines different bond purchases models: report
January 9, 2015--European Central Bank staff have presented its governing council with various models for a new asset purchase programme to ward off deflation in the euro area, Bloomberg reported on Friday.
According to Bloomberg, staff presented a number of possible scenarios to purchase up to 500 billion euros ($591 billion) in investment-grade assets to the ECB's policy-setting governing council at a meeting this week.
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Source: EUbusiness
MiFID lowers swaps liquidity bar
January 9, 2015--For the European derivatives market, 2015 is set to be the year in which the final pieces of the regulatory jigsaw are finally put in place, comprising rules on electronic trading, transparency and margin, as well as the implementation of central clearing for standardised swaps.
While mandatory clearing of interest rate swaps is set to begin early summer, the big source of debate for European regulators remains which specific securities will be mandated to trade on venues or subject to pre-trade and post-trade transparency under MiFID II.
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Source: ifre.com
ESMA publishes updates to Q&As on the AIFMD and the guidelines on ETFs and other UCITS issues
January 9, 2015--The 2 Q&As published today contain updated questions and answers on the application of the AIFMD (page 16) and of the guidelines on ETFs and other UCITS issues (page 7).
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Source: ESMA
