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HSBC lists four emerging market ETFs
April 12, 2011--HSBC has launched four European ETFs offering exposure to the Indonesian, Korean, Malaysian and Taiwanese equity markets.
The HSBC MSCI Korea ETF lists on the London Stock Exchange today, and follows the launch of the HSBC MSCI Indonesia, HSBC MSCI Malaysia and HSBC MSCI Taiwan ETFs, all of which went live on 30 March. All carry a highly competitive Total Expense Ratio (TER) of just 0.60%. Further registrations and cross-listings across Europe are planned.
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Source: ETF Express
Deutsche Börse's Xetra division and STOXX today announced the introduction of an information portal for sustainable securities, as well as the launch of the STOXX Global ESG Leaders indices.
Largest German information offer for sustainable securities on a central platform / High transparency through use of standardised indicators / New indices facilitate measurement of a company’s sustainable activities
April 11, 2011-Deutsche Börse's Xetra division and STOXX today announced the introduction of an information portal for sustainable securities, as well as the launch of the STOXX Global ESG Leaders indices.
The information portal for sustainable securities is aimed at private and institutional investors. The portal helps investors to make their individual investment decisions according to standard sustainability criteria. The information portal enables investors to develop their own strategies for sustainable investments in a transparent way and to assess the sustainability of existing investments. The portal also enables companies to filter their activities in line with the ESG criteria: environmental, social and governance considerations.
The information portal covers all investment classes, from equities to ETFs, investment funds and certificates. The STOXX Global ESG Leaders index family offers indicators for 1800 European public limited companies, transparently and neutrally, using the well-known ESG criteria. These key sustainability data were provided by Sustainalytics, a leading global provider of ESG research and analysis, with nearly 20 years of experience in the responsible investment (RI) and socially responsible investment (SRI) markets. Investors can use the portal to select and weight these equities according to their personal investment preferences and sustainability criteria.
“The information portal for sustainable securities is a further important step in our efforts to provide transparency on the capital markets, especially in the sustainable investment segment which is seeing increasing demand from private and institutional investors,” said Rainer Riess, Managing Director at Deutsche Börse AG and responsible for the Xetra business unit.
Source: Deutsche Börse
ETF Stat Report March 2011 Borsa Italiana
March 11, 2011--The ETF Stat Report MArch 2011 of the Borsa Italiana is now available.
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Source: Borsa Italiana
STOXX Launches Global ESG Leaders Indices in collaboration with sustainalytics
April 11, 2011--STOXX Limited, the market-moving provider of innovative, substantial and global index concepts, today introduced the STOXX Global ESG Leaders Index family, an innovative series of ESG (environmental, social, governance) indices which is based on sustainability data provided by Sustainalytics, a leading global provider of ESG research and analysis, with nearly 20 years of experience in the responsible investment (RI) and socially responsible investment (SRI) markets.
These new equity indices are fully transparent with components selected based on a comprehensive set of sustainability ratings. Based on data provided by Sustainalytics, this index model will, for the first time, allow investors to fully understand which factors determine a company’s ESG rating and their respective importance. The model has been mapped to the “KPIs for ESG 3.0” standard defined by Deutsche Vereinigung für Finanzanalyse und Asset Management (DVFA) and The European Federation of Financial Analysts Societies (EFFAS), and is fully approved by both organizations.
“With the launch of the STOXX Global ESG Leaders indices we are taking another step to bring superior and innovative index concepts to the market. Our new index family will set standards in terms of full transparency and comprehensiveness in the ESG indexing space,” said Hartmut Graf, chief executive officer, STOXX Limited. “Market participants now have the possibility to consider detailed environmental, social, and governance ratings for each index component; and make an educated and conscious decision on their ESG investment.”
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Source: STOXX
Independent Commission on Banking: publication of Interim Report
April 11, 2011--The Independent Commission on Banking published its Interim Report today. The Commission has been asked to consider structural and related non-structural reforms to the UK banking sector to promote financial stability and competition, and to make recommendations to the Government by September 2011.
The Interim Report sets out the Commission’s current and provisional views on the need for reform and on possible reform options, and it seeks views, evidence and analysis in response. The Commission has not reached final conclusions.
view the Interim Report Consultation on Reform Options
Source: Independent Commission on Banking
Vickers' banking report not enough to reduce risks to us all in global banking
April 11, 2011--The UK, alongside Switzerland, is at the forefront of sensible financial sector reform. Both countries desperately need this.
David Cameron's government should shudder at the realization that Britain's major banks have over £6 trillion of liabilities, four times the size of the UK economy.
UBS and Credit Suisse are five times the size of the Swiss economy. Such sums constitute a time bomb with the potential to create mass financial devastation – just ask Ireland.
The preliminary report from Sir John Vickers's Independent Commission on Banking – a dream team of talents – is due out today, but we already have strong hints of the likely proposals.
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Source: Daily Telegraph
Europe’s $2 Trillion of Distressed Debt Set to Outstrip U.S.
April 11, 2011--The distressed debt market in Europe is set to outstrip the U.S. for the first time as the region’s sovereign crisis forces banks to sell $2 trillion of underperforming assets, Strategic Value Partners LLC said.
“The opportunity set in Europe is very attractive and rich,” Victor Khosla, founder of the Greenwich, Connecticut-based distressed-debt hedge fund manager, said in a phone interview. “It far exceeds the U.S. for the first time.”
Source: Bloomberg
Europe needs tough bank tests to maintain recovery: IMF
April 11, 2011--The IMF pressed Europe on Monday to conduct credible stress tests on its banks so as to restore market confidence in a sector strained by a eurozone debt crisis threatening a modest recovery.
The eurozone's economy is expected to grow a modest 1.6 percent this year and 1.8 percent in 2012, the IMF said in its World Economic Outlook, a 0.1 percentage point improvement from a January update.
But the recovery is "gradual and uneven" within the 17-nation eurozone, with markets still "apprehensive" about the future of countries under sustained pressure from investors.
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Source: EUbusiness
Deutsche Börse launches information portal for sustainable securities/STOXX introduces Global ESG Leaders indices
Largest German information offer for sustainable securities on a central platform / High transparency through use of standardised indicators / New indices facilitate measurement of a company’s sustainable activities
April 11, 2011--Deutsche Börse’s Xetra division and STOXX today announced the introduction of an information portal for sustainable securities, as well as the launch of the STOXX Global ESG Leaders indices.
The information portal for sustainable securities is aimed at private and institutional investors. The portal helps investors to make their individual investment decisions according to standard sustainability criteria.
The portal helps investors to make their individual investment decisions according to standard sustainability criteria. The information portal enables investors to develop their own strategies for sustainable investments in a transparent way and to assess the sustainability of existing investments. The portal also enables companies to filter their activities in line with the ESG criteria: environmental, social and governance considerations.
The information portal covers all investment classes, from equities to ETFs, investment funds and certificates. The STOXX Global ESG Leaders index family offers indicators for 1800 European public limited companies, transparently and neutrally, using the well-known ESG criteria. These key sustainability data were provided by Sustainalytics, a leading global provider of ESG research and analysis, with nearly 20 years of experience in the responsible investment (RI) and socially responsible investment (SRI) markets. Investors can use the portal to select and weight these equities according to their personal investment preferences and sustainability criteria.
“The information portal for sustainable securities is a further important step in our efforts to provide transparency on the capital markets, especially in the sustainable investment segment which is seeing increasing demand from private and institutional investors,” said Rainer Riess, Managing Director at Deutsche Börse AG and responsible for the Xetra business unit.
Source: Deutsche Börse
The Royal Bank of Scotland list currency hedged ETFs on NYSE Euronext
April 11, 2011--NYSE Euronext is pleased to announce that the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) launched two RBS Market Access Currency Hedged ETFs on its Amsterdam market. These new currency hedged ETFs enable investors to invest internationally and hedge currency exposure in one trade, without having to monitor and maintain a currency hedge.
The new ETFs were created by RBS to provide Euro hedged exposure to the major benchmark indices S&P 500® and TOPIX®:
RBS Market Access S&P 500® EUR Hedged Index ETF
RBS Market Access TOPIX® EUR Hedged Index ETF
Each currency hedged index has been designed to replicate the returns to an investor whose home currency is Euro and has an exposure to the corresponding reference index denominated in its local currency (foreign currency for the investor) and hedges his currency risk using one month forward FX contracts.
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Source: NYSE Euronext
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