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Index funds force change at Smith & Williamson North American Trust
September 24, 2013--Smith & Williamson Investment Management, based in London and with £14 billion under management, has reduced the holdings in its North American Trust and acknowledges pressure from the wide use of index funds by advisers.
Reducing the stock list by almost 50%, the firm expects this to help the trust to deliver an above-benchmark investment return that justifies its active fees in light of the wider use of index funds and exchange-traded funds (ETFs).
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Nordea Bank Finland Plc signs a market making agreement with two new UCITS ETF Funds
September 24, 2013--Nordea Bank Finland Plc signs a market making agreement concerning Nordea Global Emerging Markets Equities UCITS ETF Fund and Nordea Stable Equities UCITS ETF Fund
Nordea Investment Fund Company Finland Ltd (on behalf of both Funds) and Nordea Bank Finland Plc have concluded a market making agreement,
which fulfils the requirements of NASDAQ OMX Helsinki Ltd's and NASDAQ OMX Stockholm Ltd's market making operations.
Source and Man Group partner for 'beta plus' strategy ETFs
September 23, 2013--The two LSE-listed funds follow a Man Group strategy designed to generate alpha from broker recommendations on stocks from Asia and continental Europe
Exchange-traded fund (ETF) provider Source has today launched two ETFs that provide 'beta plus' exposure to Europe and Asia. The Source Man GLG Continental Europe Plus Ucits ETF (MPCE), which tracks the stocks of companies based in 16 European countries excluding the UK, aims to outperform the MSCI Europe ex UK Index by 2-8% per year. The Source Man GLG Asia Plus Ucits ETF (MPAS) gives investors exposure to 11 Asian countries, excluding Japan, while aiming to outperform its benchmark, the MSCI AC Pacific ex Japan Index, by 3-8% per year. The ETFs trade on the London Stock Exchange.
Moscow Exchange: no downside left for stock market
Moscow Exchange says structural reforms help reverse downward trend
Diversity of products helps Moscow Exchange grow business
Russian privatisation plans still in the pipeline
September 23, 2013--Russia's stock market is set to rebound, thanks in part to reforms to bring trading in line with international norms, Moscow Exchange's chief executive said on Monday.
Selling at a near 50-percent discount to those of other emerging nations, Russian stocks have something of a pariah status for foreign investors worried at corruption and stalled efforts to modernise the economy.
Three new iShares ETFs launched on Xetra
ETFs based on interest-rate hedged corporate bonds and large and mid-caps
September 23, 2013--Two new equity index ETFs and one new bond index ETF issued by iShares have been tradable in Deutsche Börse's XTF segment since Monday.
ETF name: iShares $ Corporate Bond Interest Rate Hedged UCITS ETF
Asset class: bond index ETF
ISIN: DE000A1W4V85
Total expense ratio: 0.25 percent
Distribution policy: distributing
Benchmark: Markit iBoxx USD Liquid Investment Grade Interest Rate Hedged Index
State Street gets 'aggressive' to lead European ETFs market
September 22, 2013--State Street Global Advisors, the world's third largest asset manager, is about to take on market leader BlackRock in the European exchange-traded funds market.
The fight marks an aggressive strategic push for State Street which, while the second largest ETF player globally, lags BlackRock's iShares ETF business by 24.6 percentage points of market share, 508 by number of funds and $481 billion in assets under management.
DeAWM courts retail market with ETF savings plan
September 22, 2013--Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management wants to capture retail investors' growing interest in exchange traded funds by expanding its offering of commission-free ETF savings plans in Europe.
Around 30,000 ETF savings plans have been opened in Germany since Deutsche/DeAWM first launched its initiative in September 2010...
New SPDR bond index ETF launched on Xetra
ETF offers access to high-yield US corporate bonds br>September 20, 2013--A new exchange-listed bond index fund issued by SPDR (State Street Global Advisors) has been tradable in the XTF segment on Xetra since Friday.
ETF name: SPDR Barclays 0-5 Year US High Yield Bond UCITS ETF
Asset class: bond index ETF
ISIN: IE00B99FL386
Total expense ratio: 0.40 percent
Distribution policy: distributing
Benchmark: Barclays US High Yield 0-5 (ex 144A) Index
The new SPDR bond index fund enables investors to participate in the performance of the market for fixed-income and high-yield corporate bonds denominated in US dollars.
EU watchdog says new short-selling rules not harmful
September 20, 2013--Banning bets on falling share prices in the European Union has not damaged prices or ramped up volatility on stock markets, the bloc's securities regulator said on Friday, largely refuting market players' concerns.
Curbs on so-called short-selling of government debt have, however, hit turnover in a few cases, according to the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) in its first study of new EU short-selling rules.
