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Russia Moves to Shore Up Budget
Finance minister outlines cuts in social and maybe even military spending as well as raising pension age
March 2, 2015--Faced with lower oil prices and a slowing economy, Russia needs to trim its budget,
possibly even military spending, and raise its pension age, the country's Finance Minister Anton Siluanov said Monday.
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Source: Wall Street Journal
ETF Flows Show Investors Flocking to the Eurozone
March 2, 2015--The steady stream of evidence that shows investors barelling back into eurozone equities just got its latest datapoint: Exchange-traded funds with eurozone exposure received inflows of $19.3 billion so far this year
.according to figures from data firm Markit, following two consecutive quarters of outflows.
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Source: Wall Street Journal
IMF Working paper-A Global Projection Model for Euro Area Large Economies
March 2, 2015-- Summary: The GPM project is designed to improve the toolkit for studying both own-country and cross-country linkages. This paper creates a special version of GPM that includes the four largest Euro Area (EA) countries.
The EA countries are more vulnerable to domestic and external demand shocks because adjustments in the real exchange rate between EA countries occur more gradually through inflation differentials. Spillovers from tight credit conditions in each EA country are limited by direct trade channels and small confidence spillovers, but we also consider scenarios where banks in all EU countries tighten credit conditions simultaneously.
view the IMF Working paper-A Global Projection Model for Euro Area Large Economies
Source: IMF
European Banking Authority Delivers Benchmarking Package
March 2, 2015--The European Banking Authority (EBA) published a set of papers for benchmarking the internal approaches that EU institutions use to calculate own-funds requirements for credit and market risk exposures. The EBA final draft Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS) and Implementing Technical Standards (ITS) specify in detail the framework for EU institutions and competent authorities to carry out the annual supervisory benchmarking foreseen by the Capital Requirements Directive (CRD IV).
he EBA also issued its response to a call for advice by the European Commission's on the benchmarking process. This work is part of the EBA's efforts to address possible inconsistencies in the calculation of risk weighted assets (RWAs) across the EU Single Market and to ultimately restore confidence in EU banks' capital and internal models.
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Source: EBA
DeAWM's db X-trackers ETFs introduces range of interest rate hedged fixed income ETF share classes
February 28, 2015--Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management (DeAWM) has launched a range of interest rate hedged fixed income ETF share classes.
The range includes a rates hedged version of its highly successful ETF providing exposure to higher yielding Eurozone sovereign debt, which generated significant inflows in 2013...
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Source: etfworld.co.uk
Fund sales slump in January
February 27, 2015--Sales of investment funds to retail investors totalled just €320m in January, little more than a quarter of the €1.25bn sold in the same month last year, when optimism about equity markets was high.
According to data from the Investment Association, UK equity income funds remained the best sellers, drawing net inflows of €280m.
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Source: FT.com
Financial Stability Paper 33: A European Capital Markets Union: implications for growth and stability
February 27, 2015--Capital Markets Union (CMU) is an overarching term used to describe a number of possible measures aimed at diversifying and integrating European capital markets to support economic growth and stability.
This paper examines the mechanisms through which CMU could help to achieve these objectives, namely better matching of savers and borrowers and improved private-sector risk sharing, and identifies potential reform areas.
view the Financial Stability paper 33: A European Capital Markets Union: implications for growth and stability By Niki Anderson, Martin Brooke, Michael Hume and Miriam Kürtösiová. S&P Dow Jones Indices-Europe Index Dashboard In our strategy charts, the S&P Europe 350 Buyback Index jumped into the lead for the year with a highly commendable 8.4% return for the month. view more Deutsche Börse welcomes WisdomTree Europe as new ETF issuer on Xetra "We are pleased to welcome WisdomTree as a new ETF issuer on Xetra. Smart beta ETFs are increasingly popular among investors and are displaying dramatic growth rates on Xetra in terms of number of products as well as trading volume. The new ETFs from WisdomTree are thus a real asset to our offering," said Michael Krogmann, Head of Market Development at Deutsche Börse.
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Source: Bank of England
February 27, 2015--The European equity markets have been having a ripping year so far and the S&P Europe 350 added a further 6.9% during February, bringing the year-to-date returns to 14.7%.
Every single one of the S&P Europe 350's ten sectors finished in positive territory, as did the component contribution from every country in the index. The U.K.'s outsized contributed was exaggerated by currency movements; the euro continued to weaken over the month and closed at a seven-year low versus the pound.
Source: S&P Dow Jones Indices
ETFs track smart beta index strategies
February 26, 2015--Six exchange-traded funds (ETFs) issued by WisdomTree Europe have been tradable on Xetra for the first time since Thursday.
WisdomTree is one of the five largest ETF issuers on the US market and has been offering smart beta ETFs there since 2006. The Xetra listing now also enables European investors to participate in the performance of selected WisdomTree dividend strategy indices.
Source: Xetra
February 25, 2015--The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has conducted a peer review on how national regulators (national competent authorities or NCAs) supervise and enforce the MiFID provisions relating to investment firms' obligation to provide best execution, or obtain the best possible result, for their clients when executing their orders.
ESMA found that the level of implementation of best execution provisions, as well as the level of convergence of supervisory practices by NCAs, is relatively low. In order to address this situation a number of improvements were identified, including:
Source: ESMA
