Global ETF News Older than One Year
The World's Most Famous Case of Deflation (Part 1 of 2)
February 5, 2016--The Money Project is an ongoing collaboration between Visual Capitalist and Texas Precious Metals that seeks to use intuitive visualizations to explore the origins, nature, and use of money.
The Great Depression was the most severe economic depression ever experienced by the Western world.
It was during this troubled time that the world's most famous case of deflation also happened. The resulting aftermath was so bad that economic policy since has been chiefly designed to prevent deflation at all costs.
Source: visualcapitalist.com
Infographic-Oil is Dirt Cheap...Literally
A barrel of oil is the same price as a barrel of "Scott's Turf Builder"
February 5, 2016--In theory, a barrel of crude oil seems quite valuable.
It's well-known, for example, that from one barrel of oil, a refinery can make 19 gallons of gasoline, 12 gallons of diesel, and four gallons of jet fuel.
That's the equivalent of six billion joules of energy, or enough to power the average U.S. household for 1.8 months.
Source: visualcapitalist.com
STOXX Launches Comprehensive Family Of Low Carbon Indices
February 4, 2016--STOXX Limited, a leading provider of innovative, tradable and global index concepts, today introduced the STOXX Low Carbon index family. The new index family consists of four sub-families which offer varying degrees of carbon exposure to enable market participants to limit the exposure of their portfolios to carbon risk while participating in the low-carbon economic growth.
The STOXX Low Carbon index family is designed to act as an underlying for exchange-traded funds and other investable products, such as structured products and derivatives; and as benchmark for passive and active investment strategies.
"Reducing carbon emissions is a global objective, and market participants look for fully tailored solutions to decarbonize their portfolios to address long-term climate risks, while participating in the sustainable growth of a low-carbon economy. One of their main challenges in this process is high-quality data that makes granular analysis of companies' carbon footprint and climate impact through the entire supply chain possible," said Hartmut Graf, chief executive officer, STOXX Limited.
Source: STOXX
Deutsche Borse launches new XDAXDAX index
Index covers full trading hours of the derivatives market
February 3, 2016--Deutsche Börse has added the XDAXDAX index to its DAX index family. The new index will enable customers to use just one index as an underlying for their products that are linked to the performance of DAX before, during or after Xetra trading hours. Issuers previously had to use both the DAX and XDAX indices for this purpose.
XDAX trading data is used to calculate the XDAXDAX during pre-and post-trading hours; as soon as calculation of the DAX index begins, the XDAXDAX runs on the basis of these values.
Source: Deutsche Börse
Nasdaq wins Australian equities clearing deal
February 3, 2016--Australia's main stock exchange is planning to use tried-and-trusted systems to upgrade equities clearing, even as it explores transferring the operation on to emerging blockchain technology.
ASX has signed a deal for Nasdaq, the US operator, to upgrade the Sydney group's equities clearing platform and will roll out the project as it tries to create a workable system for settlement.
Source: FT.com
Infographic-The Slowdown in Venture Capital Deals is a Cause for Concern
February 3, 2016--Last year, the market for venture capital soared to new heights. A record amount of money was raised, with global funding for VC-backed companies reaching $128.5 billion, a 44% jump from 2014.
However, this impressive annual data doesn't show the whole picture. The fact of the matter is that the flow of venture capital deals peaked mid-year, and then began to disintegrate in the autumn.
Source: visualcapitalist.com
db X-trackers ETF platform makes the global top three for 2015 net new inflows
February 2, 2016--Deutsche Asset Management's (Deutsche AM's) db X-trackers exchange-traded fund
platform recorded USD 27.8 billion of net new assets in 20151, making it the third-highest recipient of net inflows of any ETF provider globally, noted Simon Klein, Head of Distribution for Passive Investments, EMEA & Asia, at Deutsche AM,
at a press conference in Frankfurt today.
Source: Deutsche Bank AG
Intelligent Assets: Unlocking the Circular Economy Potential
February 8, 2016--The impending digital transformation of the Fourth Industrial Revolution holds the potential to redefine the very basis of our materials-reliant industrial economy.
Enabled by the internet of things, a new model of growth gradually gaining independence from finite resource extraction is emerging. Can pervasive connectivity become the new infrastructure enabling effective material flows, keeping products, components and materials at their highest value at all times, thus enabling the coming of age of the circular economy?
view the World Economic Forum report-Intelligent Assets Unlocking the Circular Economy Potential
Source: World Economic Forum
Eurex: Trading statistics January 2016-Eurex Exchange: ADV 7.2 million contracts/ ISE: ADV 3.0 million contracts
February 1, 2016--In January 2016, the international derivatives markets of Eurex, part of Deutsche Börse Group, recorded an average daily volume of 10.2 million contracts (January 2015: 8.8 million).
Of those, 7.2 million were Eurex Exchange contracts (January 2015: 6.6 million), and 3.0 million contracts (January 2015: 2.2 million) were traded at the New York based International Securities Exchange (ISE). The volume traded on the spot and derivatives power markets of the European Energy Exchange (EEX) amounted to 332.4 terawatt hours. Eurex Repo recorded in all markets in January 2016 an average outstanding volume of 129.0 billion euros.
Source: Europe
IMF Working paper-Commodity Price Shocks and Financial Sector Fragility
February 1, 2016--Summary: This paper investigates the impact of commodity price shocks on financial sector fragility. Using a large sample of 71 commodity exporters among emerging and developing economies, it shows that negative shocks to commodity prices tend to weaken the financial sector, with larger shocks having more pronounced impacts.
More specifically, negative commodity price shocks are associated with higher non-performing loans, bank costs and banking crises, while they reduce bank profits, liquidity, and provisions to nonperforming loans. These adverse effects tend to occur in countries with poor quality of governance, weak fiscal space, as well as those that do not have a sovereign wealth fund, do not implement macro-prudential policies and do not have a diversified export base. These findings are robust to a battery of robustness checks.
view the IMF Working paper-Commodity Price Shocks and Financial Sector Fragility
Source: IMF
