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Financial transactions tax in Europe given go-ahead
January 22, 2013--EU ministers have given the go ahead for 11 eurozone members, including France and Germany, to prepare a new financial transactions tax.
The approval under "enhanced co-operation" rules allows the smaller group to pioneer the tax.
Governments previously failed to agree to impose the tax across the entire 27-member EU or 17-member eurozone.
ETF Securities now also lists ETPs on SIX Swiss Exchange
January 22, 2013--SIX Swiss is pleased to welcome ETF Securities as a new issuer of ETPs. Four months ago, ETF Securities launched the first products on SIX Swiss Exchange and entered the Swiss market with eight Equity ETFs.
Now ETF Securities launches 28 ETPs on the Swiss stock exchange on various commodities such as aluminum, zinc, coffee, cotton or sugar – all with a CHF currency hedging.
The product provider ETF Securities was founded in 2003 and is based in London. ETF Securities is one of the leading European providers of Exchange Traded Products (ETPs), i.e. collateralized, non-interest bearer debt securities that replicate an underlying asset. Alain Picard, Head Product Management at SIX Swiss Exchange, is pleased with this new product launch. "We would again like to extend a warm welcome to ETF Securities on SIX Swiss Exchange and are very happy that ETPs of ETF Securities can now also be traded on our exchange. These 28 ETPs newly listed on the Swiss stock exchange are an exciting addition to our existing offer and enable new investments via ETPs in individual commodities and industrial metals."
Euro area investment fund statistics
January 22, 2013--In November 2012, the amount outstanding of shares/units issued by euro area investment
funds other than money market funds was €82 billion higher than in October 2012.
This increase was due mainly to increases in share/unit prices.
The amount outstanding of shares/units issued by euro area investment funds other than money market funds increased to €6,454 billion in November 2012, from €6,372 billion in
October 2012. Over the same period, the amount outstanding of shares/units issued by euro area money market funds stood at €946 billion, unchanged from the previous month.
Transactions1 in shares/units issued by euro area investment funds other than money market funds amounted to €25 billion in November 2012, while transactions in shares/units issued by money market funds amounted to €2 billion.
DB-Synthetic Equity & Index Strategy-Europe-European ETF and ETC Product Directory
January 22, 2013--This document includes all European domiciled exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and exchange-traded commodities (ETCs).
The directory is organised by asset class and it has been sorted by benchmark exposure and by ETF issuer, in alphabetical order. A number of key information per product have been included in order to enable the reader to get an overview in their respective area of interest.
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January 21, 2013--The European Parliament may demand a rethink of new rules designed to make derivatives markets safer in the wake of the financial crisis, potentially leading to months of uncertainty for banks that are big users of these products.
Members of the Parliament are discussing a resolution which, if approved next month, would trigger a formal review of the rules, two sources from the European Parliament said.
"The draft resolution is being put together now. There are legitimate concerns," one of the parliamentary sources said.
Five db X-trackers on CSI300 sector index family launched on Xetra
ETFs offer first-time access to sector indices on Chinese A-class shares
January 21, 2013--Five new equity index ETFs issued by db X-trackers have been tradable in Deutsche Bõrse's XTF segment since Monday.
The five new db X-trackers ETFs from the CSI300 sector index series enable investors to participate for the first time in the performance of Chinese A-class shares in the following sectors: banking, energy, healthcare, real estate and consumer discretionary.
db X-trackers CSI300 Banks Index ETF (LU0781021877)
db X-trackers CSI300 Consumer Discretionary Index ETF (LU0781021950)
db X-trackers CSI300 Energy Index ETF (LU0781022172)
db X-trackers CSI300 Health Care Index ETF (LU0781022339)
db X-trackers CSI300 Real Estate Index ETF (LU0781022099)
European banks optimistic on outlook, study shows
January 21, 2013--European banks are optimistic about their business outlook for the next six months, even though the economy is set to deteriorate further in a number of countries, a study found on Monday.
Consultants Ernst & Young found in a survey that 37 percent of European banks are expecting an improvement in their operational activities in the period, while 24 percent were forecasting a deterioration.
About 39 percent expected stagnation, the study found.
Optimism varied from country to country, with up to 59 percent of British banks counting on an improvement, 51 percent of Italian banks, 45 percent of Scandinavian banks and 37 percent of Spanish banks.
ETF Quarterly Statistics: 4th quarter 2012
The latest report supplies detailed figures on the growth of SIX Swiss Exchange's ETFs segment in the fourth quarter of 2012.
January 21, 2013--In the 4th quarter of 2012, the Swiss exchange posted a ETF trading turnover of CHF 18.2 billion.
This is shown in the report ETF Quarterly Statistics[pdf], published today by SIX Swiss Exchange. In total, turnover in the ETF segment during the calendar year 2012 amounted to CHF 76'082 million. Despite remaining below the level of the record year 2011, the turnover posted for 2012 is substantially higher than in 2010. This amounts to a European market share of approximately 15%. With 204'132 trades in the 4th quarter, a total of 799'721 transactions has been executed in the ETF segment of SIX Swiss Exchange in 2012, with an average trade size of CHF 95'135.
Highest turnover in Commodities & Precious Metals
Five of the ten ETFs with the highest turnover on the Swiss exchange during Q4 invested in gold, followed by three ETFs on Equity Developed Markets and two on Emerging Markets. With CHF 1'228, CS ETF (CH) on SMI has again defended its position as the ETF with the highest turnover - for the fifth quarter in a row.
Overall, ETFs on Commodities & Precious Metals recorded a turnover of CHF 6'572 million, representing a 36% share of total turnover in the ETF segment. A close second was the asset class Equity Developed Markets, with turnover of CHF 6'382 million, which equates to a share of 35%. CS ETF was once again the biggest provider by turnover in the third quarter with 24%, followed by iShares with 22% and ZKB with a 16% share.
Moscow Exchange Announces Intention to Float on its Own Platform
January 21, 2013--OJSC Moscow Exchange MICEX-RTS ("Moscow Exchange" or the "Company") announces its intention to proceed with an initial public offering (the "Offering") of ordinary shares (the "Shares") with a view to being listed on Moscow Exchange's own trading platform, CJSC MICEX Stock Exchange.
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db X-trackers lists China sector ETFs in Frankfurt
January 21, 2013--Deutsche Bank’'s exchange-traded funds (ETF)
platform, db X-trackers, is providing European investors with exposure to specific sectors of the Chinese equity market with the listing of five new products on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange.
The ETFs provide exposure to sectoral components of the CSI300 Index, which
reflects the performance of Chi na’s A-shares market*. Sector exposures available are: energy, health care, consumer discretionary, banks and real estate.
Manooj Mistry, Deutsche Bank’s head of exchange-traded products, EMEA, commented: “db X-trackers has played a key part in opening up Chi na’s A-shares market to foreign investors, first with the listing of a series of A-shares ETFs in Hong Kong, then with the cross-listing last year to London of the db x-trackers CSI 300 UCITS ETF, and now with the cross-listing from Hong Kong to Frankfurt of specific sector ETFs on the CSI 300. This will make it much easier for European investors to trade Chinese equity exposure.”
