Europe ETP News Older Than 1 year-If your looking for specific news, using the search function will narrow down the results
SPDR(R) ETFs Launches World First ETF on Emerging Market Inflation-Linked Bonds
SPDR ETF Research Shows Nearly Half of Asset Managers and Pension
Professionals Across Europe Plan to Increase their Exposure to EM bonds in Next Three Years
April 25, 2013--SPDR ETFs, the exchange traded funds (ETF) platform of State Street Global Advisors (SSgA), announced today that it has launched the SPDR Barclays EM Inflation-Linked Local Bond UCITS ETF on the Deutsche Börse-the world's first ETF giving pure exposure to EM inflation-linked debt.
The new physically-backed ETF tracks the Barclays EM Inflation-Linked 20% Capped Index, which includes inflation-linked sovereign bonds issued by Brazil, Mexico, Chile, South Africa, Poland, Turkey, Israel, Korea and Thailand.
BlackRock's Credit Suisse deal in holding pattern over Ireland
April 25, 2013--BlackRock's acquisition of Credit Suisse's exchange traded fund arm may be delayed after Irish and UK watchdogs launched an initial investigation into the deal.
The Irish Competition Authority, the watchdog responsible for blocking anti-competitive mergers in Ireland, will decide by May 10 whether to clear the transaction or proceed to a full investigation of the deal, which can last up to three months.
Fears over market impact of Tobin tax
April 23, 2013--Talks on a European financial transaction tax are faltering amid concerns over its economic impact, indicating the levy may be scaled back by the eurozone countries that want to adopt it.
Those involved in the early negotiations say the 11 eurozone states committed to a transaction tax are divided over what form it should take, with several countries expressing fears that it will harm government bond markets and pension funds.
Eurozone business activity still slumping
April 23, 2013--Private sector business activity remained weak across the eurozone in April, underscoring a gloomy medium-term outlook for the 17-state economy, a widely-watched survey showed on Tuesday.
The Markit Eurozone Composite Purchasing Managers Index registered 46.5 points, the same reading as March and well below the boom-and-bust line of 50 points indicating growth or recession.
It was the 19th time in 20 months that the survey of thousands of eurozone companies signalled a contraction in the single currency area's economy.
BNY Mellon begins trading in Europe
April 22, 2013--BNY Mellon has begun trading fixed income and equities in Europe as the world's largest custody bank attempts to break out its investment services business from its traditional US heartland.
The US-based group said on Monday it had started offering dealing services for institutional clients in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. The division, known as BNY Mellon Capital Markets Emea, will be headed in London by Ian Gass and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority.
Euro area investment fund statistics
April 22, 2013--In February 2013, the amount outstanding of shares/units issued by euro area investment funds other than money market funds was €115 billion higher than in January 2013.
This increase was due both to increases in share/unit prices and to net issues of shares/units.
The amount outstanding of shares/units issued by euro area investment funds other than money market funds increased to €6,737 billion in February 2013, from €6,622 billion in January 2013. Over the same period, the amount outstanding of shares
Russia set for first ETF
April 22, 2013--The first Russia-listed exchange-traded fund is set to go live this month on the Moscow Exchange, marking the latest in a number of steps taken by the bourse to develop its offering for both domestic and foreign investors.
FinEx ETF, a new ETF provider and subsidiary of FinEx Capital Management, will list its Russia corporate bonds ETF on the Moscow Exchange in the next two weeks. The fund is based on the Barclays Emerging Markets Tradable Russian Corporate Bond Index, which focuses on shorter maturity liquid eurobonds issued by non-sovereign Russian issuers, but will be listed in roubles rather than dollars.
Majority of Germans consider gold a safe investment
Savings accounts are the most popular form of investment
April 18, 2013--Nine out of ten Germans believe investing in gold is safe-yet fewer than one in three include gold in their investment portfolio structure. The biggest gap between attitudes and investment behaviour lies with the 30 to 39-year-olds: although an above-average number of people (51 percent) in this age group believe that gold is very safe, only 29 percent of those surveyed actually invest in it.
This was the finding of a representative study with over 1,000 respondents conducted by the opinion polling institute TNS Emnid on behalf of Deutsche Börse Commodities GmbH.
Confidence in gold clearly increases with net household income. While just shy of half (45 percent) of higher-income individuals with a monthly household net income of over €2,500 consider gold a very safe investment, only one third of those with disposable income of less than €1,000 per month feel the same way. “There are marked differences especially in how gold is used as an investment. While lower-income groups tend to have more gold jewellery, higher-income groups invest more frequently in products such as Xetra-Gold,” said Steffen Orben, managing director of Deutsche Börse Commodities GmbH. Overall, the percentage of people surveyed who invest in gold is almost identical across all income groups. The level of investment in other precious metals lags significantly behind.
LSE grabs ETF market share from Europe rivals
April 18, 2013--The growth in trading volumes at the LSE comes as the exchange is increasingly being favoured by US ETF providers as a debut platform in Europe,
with US fund manager First Trust the most recent, listing its first European ETFs on the LSE last week.
STOXX launches GC Pooling Indices in cooperation with Eurex Repo
New indices are designed to serve as rules-based alternatives to LIBOR and EURIBOR/EONIA
April 16, 2013--STOXX Limited, the market-moving provider of innovative, tradable and global index concepts, and Eurex Repo, the leading provider for international financing in the secured money market business today announced the launch of the STOXX GC Pooling index family, including the migration of the existing GC Pooling Indices calculated by Deutsche Börse into the new index family.
The STOXX GC Pooling Indices provide a representation of the secured euro funding transactions taking place on the Eurex Repo GC Pooling Market. A unique feature of this index family is the introduction of two funding rates that measure secured interbank funding rates and volumes in the euro zone.
