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Crackdown on UK fund market raises alarm

October 6, 2013--The UK financial regulator has met the chief executive of every large fund company as part of a drive to crack down on misconduct in the fund industry.

The news comes after the Financial Conduct Authority fined Aberdeen Asset Management £7.2m for failing to protect client assets adequately, and Axa Wealth £1.8m for mis-selling products to thousands of retail clients.

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Source: FT.com


Pull closet indexing out of the closet

Fund manager practice is a tax on millions of investors
October 4, 2013--In the UK, people are trying to pull closet indexing out of the closet. It is a fight that could have global implications.

This is one issue on which there is no need to sit on the fence. The debate between..

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Source: FT.com


Tradeweb Exchange-Traded Funds Quarterly Update- Q3 2013

October 3, 2013--The following data is derived from trading activity on the Tradeweb European-listed ETF platform from 1 July to 30 September 2013.
Volume by ETF asset class
Equity-based ETFs saw a 4 percentage point increase in volume on Tradeweb during the third quarter of 2013 while activity in fixed income and commodity-based ETFs each fell by 2 percentage points.

In contrast to the second quarter, there was a strong buying trend during the period, particularly in fixed income ETFs, which saw an 8 percentage point increase in buys during the third quarter.

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Source: Tradeweb


UK Official holdings of international reserves, September 2013

October 3, 2013--In summary this month's release shows that, in September 2013:
No intervention operations were undertaken.

Movements in reserves and levels of reserves were as follows:

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Source: HM Treasury


Trading volume at Boerse Stuttgart rises to around EUR 7 billion in September

Strong growth in debt instrument trading/increases also recorded in trading in equities and exchange-traded products
October 2, 2013--Boerse Stuttgart generated turnover of around EUR 7 billion in September 2013, according to its order book statistics.

This represents an increase of more than 7 percent in comparison with August. Trading in securitised derivatives accounted for the largest share of the total turnover. The trading volume in this asset class was around EUR 3 billion. Turnover in leverage products was around EUR 1.2 billion, while investment products contributed around EUR 1.8 billion to the total turnover.

Turnover in debt instrument trading was just under EUR 2 billion in September. This represents growth of around 23 percent on the trading volume for August, with an increase being recorded in emerging market bonds, among others. The trading volume of emerging market bonds was EUR 83.5 million, almost three times the volume recorded in September 2012.

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Source: Boerse Stuttgart


ESMA delivers second set of advice on EMIR equivalence

October 2, 2013--The European Securities and Market Authority (ESMA) has published its second set of advice to the European Commission on the equivalence of the regulatory regimes for OTC derivatives clearing, central counterparties (CCPs), and trade repositories (TR) of non-EU countries with the European Markets Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR).

Following a first set of advice published on 9 September 2013, ESMA has now published its equivalence assessments of the regulatory regimes of Canada, India and South Korea and supplements to its equivalence assessments for Australia, Hong Kong, Singapore and Switzerland.

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Source: ESMA


Europe stock ETFs see record inflow-BlackRock

October 2, 2013--Exchange-traded funds (ETFs) focused on European equities attracted record monthly inflows in September, with investors lured by the region's improving economy, data from BlackRock shows.

Pan-European equity ETFs saw some $5.3 billion of inflows last month, taking inflows for the year-to-date to $12.5 billion, with the majority of investors choosing to invest in total market products as opposed to ones tied to a specific sector.

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Source: Reuters


Key figures for SIX Swiss Exchange and Scoach Switzerland: September 2013

October 1, 2013--Compared with the corresponding period last year, there was an overall increase of 7.1% in the number of transactions conducted on SIX Swiss Exchange and Scoach Switzerland in the first nine months of the year, while trading turnover was up 11.0%.

In all, 2,732,910 trades were conducted in September, equating to a month-on-month increase of 0.5%. Conversely, turnover was down by 2.4%to CHF 73.2 billion.

Since the start of 2013, a total of 26,153,088 transactions have been co Scoach Switzerland. This marks a year-on equities including funds + ETPs segment, equating to a rise of 7.5%. The ETF segment also posted strong growth. There were 706,170 transactions in this segment in total, 18.6% more than in the corresponding period last year.

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Source: SIX Swiss Exchange


The Spanish stock exchange traded 48.2euro billion in September, up 33% from August

October 1, 2013--Significant growth in the number of trades in September, up 88.6% from a year earlier
ETF trading in September was up 27.9% year on year


In September the trading volume on the Derivatives market reached 5.4 million contracts. Trading in Index Futures was up 13.2%
Trading on the Corporate Debt market reached €1 billion in the first three quarters and the trading volume on SEND increased by threefold
Equities

The equity trading volume on the Spanish Stock Exchange in September reached €48.2 billion, in line with last year's and was up 33.1% on the preceding month of August.

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Source: Bolsas y Mercados Españoles


iShares launches currency-hedged Japan ETF

October 1, 2013--BlackRock exchange traded funds (ETF) platform iShares has launched a new currency-hedged Japanese ETF which was listed on the London Stock Exchange (LSE) on Tuesday.

The new product is the iShares MSCI Japan USD Hedged UCITS ETF (IJPD) and has a total expense ratio of 0.64%.

iShares said the offering will allow investors to mitigate currency risk in a single trade in a volatile foreign exchange environment. The product will give investors access to Japan whilst minimising the impact of movements in the yen to US dollar exchange rate.

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Source: Interactive Investor


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