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Deutsche Börse AG achieves earnings growth in Q2/2011
EBIT improves 7 percent to €276.5 million Costs down 19 percent year-on-year, at €289.2 million Sales revenue of €528.6 million Earnings per share up 11 percent to €0.96
July 28, 2011--: On Thursday, Deutsche Börse AG published its figures for the second quarter of 2011. Compared to the same period in the previous year earnings before interest and tax (EBIT) rose by 7 percent to €276.5 million. The Group’s total costs decreased to €289.2 million, 19 percent below the costs in the previous year.
Sales revenue amounted to €528.6 million, 6 percent lower than in the second quarter last year, when trading volumes were particularly high due to market volatility. Earnings per share climbed 11 percent to €0.96 compared to the previous year.
Sales revenue for the first half of the year rose slightly compared with the prior year, from €1,083.6 million in H1/2010 to €1,087.2 million in the first six months of 2011. Total costs in the first half of 2011 amounted to €560.5 million, a year-on-year decline of 14 percent. As a result, EBIT improved by 18 percent to €592.8 million and earnings per share rose by 23 percent to €2.10.
Gregor Pottmeyer, Deutsche Börse AG’s CFO and Executive Board member for Human Resources: “We maintained our rigorous cost discipline in the second quarter of 2011, enabling us to further optimize costs for the half-year period. Coupled with a slight rise in sales revenue, this increased earnings significantly in the first half of 2011.”
Source ETFs pass $10bn asset milestone
July 27, 2011--Source, the specialist exchange traded products provider, has announced that its assets under management have passed the $10bn milestone in a little over two years since the launch of the company in April 2009.
“This landmark is proof that our approach is working,” said Ted Hood, chief executive of Source.
July 2011: Business Climate Indicator continues to decline in the euro area
July 28, 2011--The Business Climate Indicator (BCI) for the euro area fell for the fifth month in a row in July 2011. The current level of the indicator remains comparatively high, but the steady fall observed since March indicates that euro-area industry has entered a phase of growth moderation.
The drop in the BCI in July reflects primarily weakening production expectations and worsening assessments of production trends observed in recent months. These developments went along with managers being more pessimistic about overall order books and export order books. Appraisal of stocks continued to increase from historic lows.
July 2011: Economic sentiment drops in both the EU and the euro area
July 28, 2011--The Economic Sentiment Indicator (ESI) for the EU and the euro area declined in July but remains above its long-term average. It fell, by 2.2 points respectively, to 102.4 in the EU and to 103.2 in the euro area.
In the euro area the fall resulted from a decline in confidence in all sectors, with strong losses in industry and services. In the EU confidence also declined notably in industry, retail trade and among consumers, with marginal falls in services and an improvement in the construction sector.
Most Member States recorded a drop in sentiment. Among the seven largest EU Members States, confidence in Italy fell the most (-4.5), followed by Spain (-2.7). The confidence indicator fell less significantly in the Netherlands (-2.1), Germany (-1.8), the UK (-1.4) and France (-0.5), while it improved slightly in Poland (+0.4). In July, the ESI remains above its long-term average only in Germany and France.
Euro area economic and financial developments by institutional sector
July 28, 2011--In the first quarter of 2011, the annual growth rate1 of net disposable income in the euro area
increased to 4.0%, compared with 2.8% in the fourth quarter of 2010 (see Annex, Table 1). The annual
growth rate of final consumption in the euro area increased to 2.7% in the first quarter (2010q4: 2.4%). Gross fixed capital formation increased by 6.7% in the first quarter of 2011, compared with 2.6% in the
previous quarter.
The annual growth rate of households’ gross disposable income increased to 2.4% in the first quarter of
2011, from 1.6% in the previous quarter (see Table 2). The annual growth rate of households’
consumption expenditure was 3.2% in the first quarter compared with 3.3% in the previous quarter. The
annual growth rate of households’ gross saving was -3.0% in the first quarter compared with -8.9%
previously. The households’ gross saving rate2 stood at 13.5%, compared with 14.8% in the first quarter of
2010. The annual growth rates of financing and financial investment decreased to 2.3% and 2.6%
respectively in the first quarter of 2011 (2010q4: 2.7% and 2.9% respectively). Households’ net worth3
increased by 2.9% in the first quarter, compared with 3.9% in the previous quarter.
ESMA publishes a statement on disclosures related to sovereign debt to be included in IFRS financial statements
July 28, 2011--According to European Regulation no 1095/2010 establishing the European Securities and Markets Au-thority (ESMA), ESMA shall act in the field of financial reporting, to ensure the effective and consistent application of European Securities and Markets legislation.
As a result of recently increased market interest in sovereign debt, ESMA has increased its coordination of the monitoring activities of competent authorities in response to the specific market circumstances and developments in this area.
Consequently, ESMA would like to stress the need for enhanced transparency in European listed issuers’ interim and annual financial statements using International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRSs). In doing this, ESMA would point out that IFRSs are issued by the International Accounting Standards Board, and the IFRS Interpretations Committee provides the authoritative guidance on the interpretation of IFRSs. Consequently this statement should not be understood as constituting guidance or recommenda-tions on IFRS, but rather as assisting issuers in preparing disclosures on sovereign debt.
Source Assets Top US$10 billion
July 27, 2011--Source, the specialist provider of Exchange Traded Products (ETPs), is pleased to announce that assets in its 93 products now total over US$10bn
Source was founded to bring efficiency, liquidity and transparency to the European ETF market,” commented Source CEO Ted Hood. “This landmark is proof that our approach is working. Source’s multi-counterparty platform and robust ETF structure have quickly won investors’ approval.
Since its launch in April 2009, Source has been one of the fastest growing European ETP providers. Source has also delivered liquidity, with some of the most actively traded products in the market. “Assets under management don’t tell the whole story,” added Hood. “In the two years since launch, we’ve seen turnover of over US$240 bn in Source products, a strong signal from the investment community that these are the products they want to trade.”
Source brings together some of the trading houses, market makers and asset managers. Source’s partners include BofA Merrill Lynch, Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan, Morgan Stanley, Nomura, Nyenburgh and 18 other market makers, as well as asset managers PIMCO and Man GLG. In equity ETFs, Source’s market leading swap-enhanced ETF structure combines the security of a physical investment with the use of swaps to minimise tracking error, tracking index performance.
Eight new db x-trackers ETFs launched on Xetra
ETFs track performance of country and regional indices in MSCI index family / First ETF on Russell Midcap Index
July 27, 2011--Eight new ETFs issued by db X-trackers have been tradable in Deutsche Börse’s XTF segment since Tuesday.
Six db x-trackers ETFs track the performance of companies from the following countries and regions in the MSCI index family: Chile, China, EFM Africa, EM Eastern Europe, India, Malaysia and Thailand.
The db x-trackers Russell Midcap Index ETF enables investors to participate in the performance of SMEs headquartered in the US. With 800 securities, the MSCI Russell Midcap Index covers approximately 27% of the total market capitalisation of the companies in the Russell 1000.
The product offering in Deutsche Börse’s XTF segment currently comprises a total of 856 exchange-listed index funds, making it the largest offering of all European stock exchanges. This selection, together with an average monthly trading volume of €14 billion, makes Xetra Europe’s leading trading venue for ETFs.
BlackRock ETF Landscape: STOXX Europe 600 Sector ETF Net Flows: week ending 22-Jul-2011
July 27, 2011--For the week ending 22 July 2011, there were US$328.1 Mn net inflows to STOXX Europe 600 sector ETFs. The largest sector ETF net inflows last week were in banks with US$161.3 Mn followed by insurance with US$107.6 Mn net inflows while basic resources experienced net outflows
of US$60.3 Mn.
Banks has seen the largest net inflows with US$392.2 Mn, followed by healthcare with US$223.2 Mn net inflows, while utilities experienced the largest net outflows with
US$238.5 Mn. Year to date, STOXX Europe 600 sector
ETFs have seen US$150.8 Mn net inflows.
As of 22 July 2011, there is US$10.2 Bn AUM invested in the STOXX sector ETFs which is greater than the US$6.1 Bn open interest in the sector futures. The ETF AUM is greater than the open interest in the corresponding futures contract in 17 out of 19 sectors.
Europe Hedge Fund Launches Bigger than Ever-Data
Average size of new launches at record high of $116 mln
Total assets raised up, number of launches falls
July 27, 2011--New European hedge fund launches are starting life with more client capital than ever, data from EuroHedge showed on Wednesday, as investors put their faith in a select band of managers they think can guide them through choppy markets.
The average size of offshore hedge funds launched in Europe during the first six months of this year was $116 million, almost double the $65 million seen in the first half of last year and higher than in any previous six-month period, the data group said on Wednesday.
