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ECB suspends eligibility of Greek bonds as collateral
July 20, 2012--The European Central Bank said Friday it will stop accepting Greek sovereign bonds as collateral but will review the situation once a team of international auditors has completed its visit to Athens.
In the interim, Greek banks could continue to get funding from the Greek central bank, the ECB said in a statement.
The decision to suspend Greek sovereign bonds and other assets backed by the Greek government came with the expiry next week of a bond swap launched earlier this year, the ECB explained.
ETFs finally come to Russia
July 19, 2012--Recent changes to Russian legislation have opened up the market to exchange traded funds (ETFs), allowing the creation of this previously unused investment vehicle by Russian investment houses.
Local fund providers welcome the change, saying that the market has been lacking liquid investment options.
The Russian State Duma has recently approved a legislation allowing Russian investment managers to form ETFs, Russian financial press reports. Until now, all investment funds on the Russian market were open- or closed-ended investment vehicles, which are not as flexible as ETFs and lock the investor into a rigid agreement with the fund provider.
DB - Equity Research-Weekly European ETF Market Monitor
July 18, 2012--Please find attached the most recent issue of the Weekly European ETF Market Monitor. The report includes key statistics on the European ETF market as well as global ETF market highlights.
For more detailed coverage please refer to the monthly report, issued in the first week following the end of each month.
The following link will be available for 90 days. For more information, please click on the link for the full PDF. If you have any trouble viewing the link, copy and paste the link in a browser.
http://pull.db-gmresearch.com/p/611-DFEA/86832863/ETF_Research_-_Weekly_European_ETF_Market_Monitor.pdf
db X-trackers lists China A-shares ETF in London
July 18, 2012--Deutsche Bank's exchange traded fund (ETF) platform, db Xtrackers, has listed its db x-trackers CSI300 Index ETF on the London Stock Exchange, making it Europe's largest China A-shares ETF by assets under management.
The CSI300 Index tracks the performance of the 300 most representative – as measured by a combination of market capitalization and liquidity-A-shares listed on the Shanghai and Shenzhen stock exchanges.
A-shares are quoted in Chinese renminbi and have traditionally been difficult for investors outside of China to access – international investors must be the holder of a QFII (qualified foreign institutional investor) licence in order to get permission to trade in China’s A-share market. International investors can freely access H-shares and red chips traded on the Hong Kong exchange.
However, A-shares make up over 75% of Chinese market capitalization, covering more than 2000 companies across all sectors of the Chinese economy.
Source Physical Gold Hits US$ 2.5 billion In Assets
July 17, 2012--Source, one of the fastest growing Exchange Traded Product (ETP) providers in Europe with US$9 billion in assets, is pleased to announce that its Source Physical Gold
P-ETC (BBG: SGLD LN) has crossed US$2.5 billion in assets.
As demand for precious metals has continued, investors have increasingly adopted physicallysecured
ETPs as their vehicle of choice. The Source Physical Gold P-ETC is now among the largest exchange-traded physical gold products globally, with an annual fee of 0.29%. In 2011, the Source
Physical Gold P-ETC added over US$1.2 billion in net new assets and traded over US$4 billion on the
LSE. So far in 2012, the product has added over US$360 million in net new assets and already traded
over US$4 billion on the LSE, ranking it in the top five ETPs traded on the LSE for the year.
Boerse Stuttgart: Investors Straying To Other Currencies
Retail investors increasingly turn to foreign currency bonds // Turnover in bonds denominated in Norwegian crowns almost triples in June
July 17, 2012--The uncertainty generated among investors by the unresolved debt crisis has also affected sentiment in bond trading at Boerse Stuttgart. Turnover in foreign currency bonds has risen sharply in recent months.
Right at the top of the list are bonds denominated in Norwegian crowns (NOK). In June alone investors at Boerse Stuttgart traded Norwegian debt securities with a volume of more than NOK 195 million – equivalent to roughly EUR 26 million. By way of comparison, investors in May traded Norwegian bonds worth NOK 72.76 million (some EUR 10 million).
Turnover in bonds from neighbouring Sweden also saw a steep rise in June.
Ossiam Celebrates First Anniversary of ETFs
Steady inflows continue
July17, 2012--Ossiam, the specialist smart beta and exchange traded funds (ETFs)
investment manager and affiliate of Natixis Global Asset Management, has today announced that four of its ETFs listed on the London Stock Exchange have reached their first
anniversary.
The ETFs listed on the London Stock Exchange that have passed the one year milestone are:
Ossiam ETF Euro Stoxx 50® Equal Weight NR
Ossiam ETF STOXX® Europe 600 Equal Weight NR
Ossiam ETF iSTOXX™ Europe Minimum Variance NR
Ossiam ETF US Minimum Variance NR (USD)
The funds were also listed on the Frankfurt, Milan, Paris and Zurich exchanges in 2011.
Source maintains second place in net new ETP assets in H1
Sustained Inflows Into Volatility, Fixed Income, High Yield and Key Benchmark Equity ETFs
July 16, 2012--Investors poured over US$2.6 billion of net new assets into European Exchange Traded Products ("ETPs") in June 2012, raising the total for the six months to the end of 2Q to US$8.3 billion.
While equity and commodity products remain core investments, interest in volatility, fixed income ETPs and key benchmark ETFs have picked up. Source continued to cement its position in the European ETP industry, capturing net new assets of over US$171 million in June, bringing the YtD total to US$1.85 billion for H1. Source launched innovative products in alternative, fixed income and commodity asset classes. According to both ETF Global Insight and Deutsche Bank Research, at the end of Q2, Source was ranked 2nd in Europe for the second quarter running in terms of net new assets year to date.
SIX Swiss Exchange-ETF Quarterly Statistics: 2nd quarter 2012
The latest report supplies detailed figures on the growth of SIX Swiss Exchange's ETFs segment in the first quarter of 2012.
July 16, 2012--SIX Swiss Exchange published the latest edition of its ETF Quarterly Statistics today. The report contains key facts and market data for the ETF segment.
In the second quarter of 2012, the Swiss exchange posted ETF trading turnover of CHF 17.7 billion, while the average trade size increased by 1.5% to CHF 96'936. As of 30 June 2012, 398'770 ETF transactions were executed (Q1: 219'944).
Growing selection of ETFs A total of 14 new ETFs were listed on SIX Swiss Exchange in the second quarter of 2012: two Ossiam ETFs based on the minimum variance concept, two from HSBC and three from UBS on the MSCI, three ETFs from Lyxor and one from Amundi that track the EuroMTS Index, as well as three iShares ETFs on the DAX and German government bonds. At the end of June 2012, therefore, 794 ETFs were listed on SIX Swiss Exchange (including 108 in additional trading currencies) from 16 different providers, with 20 official market makers ensuring liquidity.
view the SIX Swiss Exchange-ETF Quarterly Statistics: 2nd quarter 2012
UBS climbs ETF rankings with European push
July 16, 2012--UBS Global Asset Management is making a determined push to improve on its status as Europe's sixth-largest exchange-traded fund provider. At the end of June, it listed 64 ETFs on the London Stock Exchange - the bourse's biggest bulk offering to date.
Clemens Reuter, the Swiss bank’s ETF head, said: “We initiated 18 cross-listed strategies in the first half of the year. I would like to develop another 18 to 20 in the second half.”
