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Britain to introduce happiness index: report
November 15, 2010-- Britain will introduce a "happiness index" to gauge its population's psychological and environmental wellbeing, a government source told the Guardian newspaper Monday.
Prime Minister David Cameron will ask the Office of National Statistics to prepare methods which will measure the "general wellbeing" despite reservations about the timing.
"The aim is to produce a fresh set of data ... to be published at a frequency to be decided that assesses the psychological and physical wellbeing of people around the UK," the source told the paper.
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Source: AFP
BlackRock New Report ETF Landscape Spain Industry Review: Q3 2010
November 15, 2010--As of the end of Q3 2010, there were 10 ETFs with primary listings in Spain with 44 total listings and assets of US $1.5 billion from two providers on two exchanges. There were also 389 ETFs/ETPs registered for sale in Spain.
Spain is a relatively new market for locally listed products as ETFs were only introduced into the country in November 2005. At the same time, the use of ETFs by Spanish investors has been relatively high, the report notes. In 2008 a total of 76 institutional investors in Spain reported using one or more ETFs, ranking fifth out of 42 countries where institutional use of ETFs was examined by the Global ETF Research and Implementation Strategy team.
In June 2010 the Spanish securities regulatory body, Comisión Nacional del Mercado de Valores (CNMV), authorized both investment funds and open-end investment companies to be listed and/or registered as “ETFs,” giving both vehicles the same regulatory and tax treatment. The CNMV also gave ETFs greater flexibility, allowing them to replicate not only equity or fixed income indices but also any other type of asset or underlying vehicle that the CNMV expressly authorizes, such as commodities or currencies.
"Spanish investors are increasingly attuned to the ETF vehicle’s fundamental and highly attractive attributes – including flexibility, diversification, relatively low cost and transparency," said Ms. Fuhr. "Though the market in Spain is still evolving, we anticipate that both understanding and use of ETFs will continue to expand – which will make the Spanish market a dynamic focal point of ETF growth for years to come."
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Source: Global ETF Research & Implementation Strategy Team, BlackRock
MTS Announces Plans To Launch Pan-European Corporate Bond Market
November 15, 2010--MTS, Europe’s premier facilitator for the electronic fixed income market, today announces that it plans to launch a Pan-European corporate bond platform for the wholesale market in response to specifications issued by the Cassiopeia Committee.
The Cassiopeia Committee was established in early 2010 to implement recommendations for the introduction of corporate bond platforms in Europe. MTS’s proposal is in response to specifications put forward by the committee on 26 April 2010.
MTS’s proposed market would be open for the listing and trading of Euro-denominated debt instruments and would operate on an electronic order-driven model. It would be managed by the EuroMTS Multilateral Trading Facility (MTF), and use MTS’s high capacity, low latency, Cash Market Facility (CMF) technology. CMF technology also already offers Straight-Through-Processing (STP) to Europe’s major clearing houses and central securities depositories.
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Source: MTS Group
FSA and SEC hold Strategic Dialogue meeting
November 15, 2010--Financial Services Authority (FSA) chairman, Lord Turner, today met with US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) chairman Mary L Schapiro as part of the SEC-FSA Strategic Dialogue sessions established in 2006.
During the meeting, the agencies shared views regarding the oversight of over-the-counter derivatives trading, high-frequency trading, recent regulatory initiatives regarding credit rating agencies, and cross-border enforcement information-sharing between the FSA and SEC.
Lord Turner and Chairman Schapiro also restated their agencies’ commitment to working together to improve regulation and oversight of their securities markets, particularly with regard to globally active regulated firms with a presence in both countries.
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Source: FSA.gov.uk
First Strategy ETC from DB ETC Index plc Launched on Xetra
November 15, 2010--The first ETC (exchange traded commodity) based on the mean reversion principle issued by db ETC Index plc has been tradable on Xetra since Monday.
ETC name: db Mean Reversion Euro Hedged ETC
Asset class: Commodities
ISIN: DE000A1E6XY8
Total expense ratio: 0.45 percent
Benchmark: db Mean Reversion EUR Index
The db Mean Reversion Euro Hedged ETC allows investors to participate for the first time in the performance of a basket of commodities comprising aluminum, gold, heating oil, corn, wheat and WTI crude oil with currency hedging. The weighting of individual commodities is based on the mean reversion principle. Using this approach, commodities that appear inexpensive relative to their mean are overweighted while commodities that appear relatively expensive are underweighted. The weighting of individual commodities in the reference index db Mean Reversion Index is mainly calculated on the basis of their average price over the last 365 days in relation to their five-year mean. The index weighting is adjusted as soon as the 12-month average of a commodity significantly deviates from its five-year mean.
Deutsche Börse’s ETC segment product range currently comprises 179 instruments. The monthly trading volume of ETCs on Xetra averages around €550 million.
Source: Deutsche Börse
ETF Statistics of October 2010-Borsa Italiana
November 12, 2010-The ETF Stat October 2010 Report of the Borsa Italiana is now available.
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Source: Borsa Italiana
Unscheduled Free Float Adjustment in MDAX
Adjustment for Deutsche Postbank AG as of 16 November 2010
Deutsche Börse has announced an unscheduled adjustment to the free float of Deutsche Postbank AG in MDAX.
Following the takeover bid, the free float of this share changed by more than 10 percentage points.
According to the index rules, the free float of Deutsche Postbank AG will be adjusted from the current 30.55 percent to 19.07 percent.
The adjustment will be effective next Tuesday, 16 November 2010.
The next regular review of the Deutsche Börse equity indices is scheduled for 3 December 2010.
Please find more information on our indices at www.dax-indices.com.
Source: Deutsche Börse
German pension fund seeks to invest $150m in US equity
November 12, 2010-- German pension fund is tendering a mandate to invest $150m (€110m) in US equity, using IPE Quest.
The large-cap equity mandate QN1143 should be run using a core, active management style, while any interested parties should hold at least $500m in assets in a US equity mandate, managing $2.5bn in assets overall.
The pension fund asks that the Standard & Poor's 500 Total Return index be used as a benchmark, while no company with fewer than three years of experience will be considered.
Ideally, any asset manager should have five years of experience.
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Source: IP&E
Europe squares up to bonds-bailout conundrum
November 12, 2010--European leaders squared up on Friday to a growing conundrum over how bond markets are reacting to bailout planning for Ireland and other countries classed as bad debtors.
Tensions left Dublin walking a tightrope this week when its yield, or the interest it pays bond buyers, shot up to 8.929 percent, its highest level since the euro's creation in 1999.
Portugal also hit a record 7.117 percent, and although the percentages eased on Friday, Ireland to 7.994 percent and Portugal to 6.588 percent, they remain high and some Italian rates later rose sharply.
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Source: EUbusiness
Eurex to Launch Dividend Futures on Swiss Single Stocks
Introduction scheduled for 30 November 2010/ New listings are extension of successful dividend futures product range
November 11, 2010-- The international derivatives exchange Eurex announced today that it will offer futures contracts based on dividends of leading Swiss companies starting on 30 November 2010.
The new contracts are based on dividends from ABB, Compagnie Financière Richemont, Roche Holding, Credit Suisse Group, Nestle, Novartis, Schweizerische Rückversicherungs-Gesellschaft, Swisscom, UBS and Zurich Financial Services. All underlying firms are part of the Swiss blue-chip index SMI.
“The listing of our new Swiss single stock dividend futures reflects the growing demand by investors for exchange-traded and centrally cleared products. Based on the success of our listed dividend futures, our customers have expressed further interest in Swiss-based contracts. Our new offering enables investors to participate in the performance linked to the dividend element of major Swiss companies”, said Michael Peters, member of the Eurex Executive Board.
The specifications for the new contracts will be similar to the existing dividend products. In order to offer continuous quoting and thus support trading, a designated market making scheme will be offered from day one for the Swiss single stock dividend futures. Eurex will list annual contracts in Swiss franc in each name from December 2010 out to December 2014.
Introduced in June 2008, Eurex’s dividend derivatives product suite trades more than 18,000 contracts daily. Almost 3.8 million contracts have been traded in 2010 so far. Open interest stands at 1.3 million contracts currently, representing more than 8.2 billion euro of notional dividend value.
Source: Eurex
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