Europe ETP News Older Than 1 year-If your looking for specific news, using the search function will narrow down the results
Vanguard to close European active ETF range
December 3, 2020--Quartet of factor funds had just $300m in assets
Vanguard is to close its four European actively managed exchange traded funds because of insufficient demand for the products.
The four Ireland-based ETFs have a combined £224m ($298m) in assets under management and provide exposure to four investment factors: value, momentum, low volatility and liquidity.
view more
Source: FT.com
New Xtrackers ETF on Xetra: ESG-compliant corporate bonds from the financial, utility and industrial sectors
December 2, 2020--Since Wednesday, a new Exchange Traded Fund issued by Xtrackers is tradable on Xetra and Börse Frankfurt.
The Xtrackers ESG USD Corporate Bond UCITS ETF 2C-EUR hedged enables investors to invest in fixed-interest corporate bonds denominated in US dollars worldwide, taking into account sustainability criteria.
Only bonds of financial, utility or industrial companies with an investment grade rating, which have a remaining term of at least three years and a minimum outstanding volume of 750 million US dollars are considered.
Each company must have an ESG rating of at least BBB and therefore meet the ESG criteria. Companies with significant business activities in the areas of alcohol, tobacco, gambling, adult entertainment, genetically modified organisms, nuclear power or weapons are excluded from the index.
Currency risks against the euro are minimised.
view more
Source: Deutsche Börse
Equivalence row looms over London ETF hub role
November 30, 2020--Delayed EU decision is raising frustration rather than fear in the City.
London's role as the most important hub in Europe's rapidly expanding $1tn exchange traded fund industry is clouded by uncertainty by the...
view more
Source: FT.com
DWS Reignites European ETF Price War with Fresh Round of Fee Cuts
November 30, 2020--German asset manager slashes charges on 21 products as it aims to make its index trackers more competitive
DWS has cut fees on 21 exchange traded funds in a bold move by the €745bn German asset manager that threatens to reignite the cut-throat price war among ETF providers in Europe.
DWS is majority-owned by Deutsche Bank and Blackrock, Vanguard, Lyxor, Amundi, UBS and Invesco have actually swapped punch and countertop punch in a brutal cost war over ETF charges over the past ten years, which has assisted to speed up the growth of affordable index tracking vehicles at the expense of earnestly managed shared resources.
view more
Source: ft.com
S&P Global to buy IHS Markit in all-stock deal worth $44bn
November 29, 2020--US rating agency S&P Global is to buy London-based market data and research company IHS Markit in an all-stock deal worth $44bn (£s;33bn) that will be the biggest corporate acquisition of 2020
It highlights the growing importance of big data in financial markets governed by information-hungry trading algorithms.
The deal, which IHS Markit's chief executive, Lance Uggla, told employees in a memo had been in the works for the last few months, will create a heavyweight in the increasingly competitive market in financial information. It highlights the growing importance of big data in financial markets governed by information-hungry trading algorithms.view more
Source: theguardian.com
ECB Meeting of 28-29 October 2020 Account of the monetary policy meeting of the Governing Council of the European Central Bank
November 26, 2020--Held in Frankfurt am Main on Wednesday and Thursday, 28-29 October 2020
1. Review of financial, economic and monetary developments and policy options
Financial market developments
Ms Schnabel reviewed the financial market developments since the Governing Council's previous monetary policy meeting on 9-10 September 2020.
Financial markets had been driven by two opposing forces.
On one side, reduced risks of a contested presidential election in the United States and expectations of a large fiscal stimulus programme under a potential Biden presidency had boosted risk sentiment and revived the reflation trade.
On the other side, renewed lockdown measures in different countries on the back of a surge in new coronavirus (COVID-19) cases, especially in the euro area, were increasingly reflected in asset price valuations.
view more
Source: ECB
Data flows, artificial intelligence and international trade: impacts and prospects for the value chains of the future
November 26, 2020--In-depth briefing and analysis on the issues of digital trade and the geopolitics of trade provided to the European Parliament.
On November 26 2020, the European Parliament published a paper requested by the European Parliament's Committee on International Trade (INTA), in which Bruegel scholars Georgios Petropoulos (Senior fellow), Niclas Poitiers (Research fellow) and André Sapir (Senior fellow) provided both an in-depth briefing and analysis on the issues of digital trade and the geopolitics of trade.
This follows a discussion and testimony given November 9 2020 before MEPs at the webinar entitled 'Data flows, artificial intelligence and international trade: impacts and prospects for the value chains of the future'.
Socio-economic effects of digital trade and artificial intelligence on EU industries
Artificial intelligence and new digital technologies are transforming digital trade. They facilitate the development of new business models of trade and reduce the geographical barriers of economic transactions. Such transformations are quite useful for the small and medium enterprises.
view more
Source: bruegel.org
ECB-Monetary developments in the euro area: October 2020
November 25, 2020--Annual growth rate of broad monetary aggregate M3 stood at 10.5% in October 2020, after 10.4% in September 2020
Annual growth rate of narrower monetary aggregate M1, comprising currency in circulation and overnight deposits, stood at 13.8% in October, unchanged from previous month
Annual growth rate of adjusted loans to households stood at 3.1% in October, unchanged from previous month
Annual growth rate of adjusted loans to non-financial corporations decreased to 6.8% in October from 7.1% in September
Components of the broad monetary aggregate M3
The annual growth rate of the broad monetary aggregate M3 stood at 10.5% in October 2020, after 10.4% in September, averaging 10.1% in the three months up to October. The components of M3 showed the following developments.
view more
Source: ECB
UK borrowing to hit record 394bn Pounds as Sunak warns of 'economic emergency'
November 25, 2020--UK borrowing is due to hit a peacetime record of £:394bn this year as the government grapples with the cost of the coronavirus pandemic, with chancellor Rishi Sunak admitting that "the economic emergency has only just begun".
Mr Sunak said the UK was facing a fall in gross domestic product of 11.3 per cent in 2020, the largest fall in output for 300 years, as he set out his one-year spending review for 2021/22.
view more
Source: msn.com
ESMA Newsletter-N0. 18
November 25, 2020--Since the last newsletter, key publications have been ESMA's report on Wirecard, the Share Trading Obligation (STO) and the Derivatives Trading Obligation (DTO) statements and the first statistical report on EU securities markets.
More, throughout the month we released ESMA 2021 Work Programme and launched an important Consultation on Taxonomy Regulation.
view more
Source: ESMA