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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.

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Source: Ossiam


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.

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Source: Source


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

Source: SIX Swiss Exchange


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.”

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Source: Financial News


EDHEC-Risk Institute research finds hedge fund alpha not correctly measured

July 13, 2012--Research by the EDHEC-Risk Institute into non-linear risk adjusted hedge fund returns has found flaws in measurements made via previous studies into the source of alpha.

Its latest study - Robust Assessment of Hedge Fund Performance through Nonparametric Discounting - suggests that "what was incorrectly measured as hedge fund alpha in previous studies is actually some form of fair reward obtained by hedge fund managers from holding a set of relatively complex linear and non-linear exposures with respect to various risk factors."

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view the EDHEC-Robust Assessment of Hedge Fund Performance through Nonparametric Discounting

Source: EDHEC


AMF publishes 2012 edition of Risk and Trend Mapping for Financial Markets and Savings

July 13, 2012--For the sixth year running, the AMF has reviewed key market trends, changes to market organisation and structure, and developments in saving and collective investment, as well as the potential consequences for business financing and investor protection.

The AMF is today publishing the 2012 edition of Risk and Trend Mapping for Financial Markets and Savings. The European sovereign debt crisis worsened in 2011, underscoring the key trends identified during the last mapping exercise in May 2011. This was true of markets, with severe pressures on fixed income activities and banks, sluggish equity performance and persistent weakness in securitisation. It was also true of the behaviour of retail investors, who last year showed a marked preference for bank deposits over higher risk investments.

The 2012 edition highlights various risks, including:

persistently high levels of macro-financial risk, which depends on a consolidation of the situation in the euro area and banks’ ability to withstand a potential deterioration in economic and financial conditions in Europe or worldwide;

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view the AMF 2012 edition of Risk and Trend Mapping for Financial Markets and Savings

Source: AMF


Clarification on Treatment of Euro Zone Exit in EURO STOXX indices

July 13, 2012--STOXX Limited has today published a clarification of its index rules regarding the treatment of potential changes to the EURO STOXX Indices following hypothetical changes to the list of eligible countries.

STOXX considers two purely hypothetical scenarios in this clarification: an "orderly exit" of any one country from the Euro zone, as well as an "unscheduled disorderly exit".

Today’s clarification of the STOXX index rules states how STOXX would treat changes to the EURO STOXX Indices as a result of a change of the composition of the Euro zone. Currently, the countries eligible for inclusion in the EURO STOXX Indices are: Austria, Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal and Spain.

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Source: STOXX


Fund Managers Expect Huge Growth In ETF Market- New Research

July 12, 2012--Recent research carried out for Lyxor Asset Management suggests that 78 per cent of fund managers expect the value of assets invested in European exchange-traded funds and products to increase over the next three years.

And 56 per cent of them expect assets to grow by over 10 per cent, with 20 per cent expecting over 30 per cent growth. Around 8 per cent expect the size of the market to fall, however.

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Source: Wealth Briefing


DB - European ETF Market: Implementation strategy : Extracting value from credit markets through CDS benchmarked ETFs

July 12, 2012--The period from 2007 through to 2009 saw many credit markets transform, with credit spreads moving from all time lows to all time highs. Prior to the credit crunch these lows contributed to classic credit investments often being subordinated to equity when making portfolio asset allocation decisions. Credit has sharply re-priced since 2008.

The re-pricing of credit is increasingly leading to reconsideration of its role in portfolio construction and asset allocation. Portfolio managers are more vigilant about the potential downside due to credit risk exposure. They also use credit value driven instruments, such as Credit Default Swap indexed products and corporate bond benchmarked products, to extract value from credit yield fluctuations and improve portfolio returns.

Historically, direct access to credit markets via a fund was only possible through cash bond benchmarked products. The European ETF market now houses products that can give access to credit yield related returns both through cash bond as well as CDS index benchmarked products. There are currently 34 ETFs benchmarked on corporate bond indices and 25 ETFs benchmarked on CDS indices in the European ETF market.

CDS indices have enjoyed stable and liquid market conditions, with open interest of $11.4 trillion as of 15/06/12, comprising 43% of the overall CDS market open interest. CDS benchmarked ETFs benefit from CDS market liquidity and thus often do away with pricing issues that are prevalent in the wider fixed income market, especially in less liquid segments such as high yield.

2012 ETF cash flows reflect the renewed role of credit in portfolios through the corporate bonds market. Corporate bond benchmarked ETF flows – a sub-category of fixed income – gathered an impressive €3.1 billion of inflows over the first half of 2012. This accounts for close to 60% of the entire 2012 European ETF industry overall cash flows (€5.2 billion). This trend also held true for the US ETF market, where corporate bond benchmarked ETFs gathered $20 billion of inflows over 2012, accounting for close to 30% of the US ETF market’s YTD inflows.

CDS indexed ETFs in the European market are a relatively new and less used product. They have gathered marginal flows of €50 million this year. However we believe that they represent an interesting addition to the ETF investor’s tool box given current credit market conditions. The elevated role of credit returns when making asset allocation decisions is relevant both when taking risk-on as well as risk-off views.

CDS benchmarked ETFs can be used as a hedge to protect against downside from credit risk. They can also be used to take directional views on credit spreads. There are certain factors that need to be looked at closely when considering making asset allocation decisions involving CDS benchmarked ETFs. In this report we explore both the characteristics of the CDS benchmarked ETF wrapper as well as those of their respective benchmarks. Such factors include basis risk between a cash bond portfolio and a CDS index, ETF liquidity evaluation, the impact of path dependence from using short and/or leveraged CDS benchmarked ETFs and index construction characteristics, just to name a few.

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/625-DCE4/79533802/European_ETFs_Implementation_Strategy.pdf

Source: Christos Costandinides, European Head of ETF Research & Strategy, Deutsche Bank


ETF Stat June 2012-Borsa Italiana

June 12, 2012--The ETF Statistics of the ETF Plus Market for the month of June 2012 are now available.

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Source: Borsa Italiana


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