Global ETF News Older than One Year
STOXX Ltd. launches True Exposure index family to help investors achieve efficient strategic asset allocation
June 8, 2015--STOXX Limited, a leading provider of innovative, tradable and global index concepts, today announced the launch of the STOXX True Exposure index family, in short STOXX TRU. The indices allow investments in predefined countries or regions by selecting companies that have a dominant economic exposure to the targeted area. By enabling investors to sharpen portfolio exposure to selected regions, these indices allow for improved asset allocation that significantly de-risks portfolios with the same regional allocations.
"In today's interconnected world, having a portfolio that invests in a US, European and Asian market-cap benchmark leads to unintended regional overlaps of economic exposures, leaving investors with allegedly diversified portfolios that could have highly correlated returns," said Hartmut Graf, chief executive officer, STOXX Limited.
Source: STOXX
Jain Era Ending as Deutsche Bank Appoints Cryan for Top Job
June 8, 2015--Deutsche Bank AG shares surged the most in more than two years as investors welcomed a management overhaul at Germany's biggest bank.
John Cryan, a supervisory board member since 2013, was named the next chief executive officer in a surprise announcement Sunday. He'll replace co-CEO Anshu Jain at the end of the month and become sole CEO when Juergen Fitschen steps down next May.
Source: Bloomberg
BlueStar Israel Equity Update June 2015-Israeli Global Equities Reach New Highs in May
June 8, 2015--Israeli global equities, as measured by BIGI(R) continued their upward move in May, almost reaching another all-time high before falling off slightly during the last week of the month.
In this they largely tracked US and European equity markets which also declined toward month-end on mixed economic data that suggested the U.S. recovery was faltering as well as the pending European creditor showdown with Greece.
BIGI(R)rose 1.67% in May, closing at 304.05, 1.70% below the all-time high reached in April.
Source: BlueStar Indexes
Free Lunch: Bitcoinomics
June 8, 2015--If bitcoin were a person, it would barely have reached school age. But only six years after the cryptocurrency software was released by its equally cryptic inventor, it is garnering extraordinary attention from finance professionals and regulators.
As early as 2011 it was considered important enough for a New Yorker article on the quest for the bitcoin creator's identity.
Source: FT.com
Russia Gets Very Serious On De-Dollarizing
June 6, 2015--Russia is about to take another major step towards liberating the Ruble from the Dollar System. Its Finance Ministry just revealed it is considering issuing Russian state debt in Chinese Yuan.
That would be an elegant way to decouple from the dependence and blackmail pressures from the US Treasury financial terrorism operations while at the same time strengthening the bonds between China and Russia-Washington's worst geopolitical nightmare.
Source: emergingequity.org
Lyxor AM to launch RQFII China bond ETF
June 5, 2015--Lyxor AM says it will use part of its new Rmb6 billion quota to launch a China bond ETF, after it became the largest RQFII holder in France.
It also plans to revamp its Asia product range over the summer.
Source: Asian Investor
Assets invested in the global ETF/ETP industry broke through the 3 trillion US dollar milestone at the end of May according to ETFGI
June 5, 2015--Assets invested in ETFs/ETPs listed globally broke through the US$3 trillion milestone at the end of May to reach a new record of US$3.015 trillion in assets under management (AUM), according to ETFGI's preliminary monthly ETF and ETP global insight report for May 2015.
At the end of May 2015, the global ETF/ETP industry had 5,757 ETFs/ETPs, with 11,117 listings, from 256 providers listed on 62 exchanges in 51 countries.
Source: ETFGI
The BNY Mellon-Consultant 360-Volume II 2015
June 5, 2015--The BNY Mellon-Consultant 360-Volume II 2015 is now available.
view the The BNY Mellon-Consultant 360-Volume II 2015
Source: BNY Mellon
DECPG Global Weekly
June 5, 2015--Taking Stock
U.S. labor market showed robust growth in May. Total nonfarm payroll employment rose by 280,000 in May, more
than expected, while the unemployment rate edged up slightly to 5.5 percent. The gains centered on professional and
business services, leisure and hospitality, and health care. The participation rate was broadly stable, at 62.9 percent.
Greece delayed loan repayment to IMF. Greece informed the IMF that it will not make the scheduled €
300 million loan repayment due this Friday. Following a procedure under IMF rules, the Greek government intends to bundle all the loan repayments due in June, totaling €1.6 billion, and make the payment at the end of the month.
Eurozone inflation rose to a six-month high in May, while the composite PMI edged down slightly. Concerns about deflation in the Eurozone receded as consumer price inflation accelerated to 0.3 percent in May (y/y), from zero percent in April (Figure 1), led by price increases in services. Core inflation, excluding energy and food, accelerated from 0.6 percent to 0.9 percent. Meanwhile, the Markit composite output index for the Eurozone came in at 53.6 in May, down from 53.9 in April. A reading above 50 denotes expansion in the sector. Private sector growth slowed modestly due to slower rates of expansion in output and new business.
Source: World Bank
Emerging Markets: The Philippines
June 5, 2015--Once known as "the sick man of Asia," the Philippines is still being touted by many as the country in the ASEAN region in which to invest, even though the Philippine GDP dropped to 5.2% in the first quarter 2015 from 6.6% in the fourth quarter 2014.
The drop was due to a sharp decrease in exports and government spending on infrastructure projects.
The Philippines is the world's largest producer of coconuts and pineapples, and 42% of their exports are electronic goods sent mainly to Japan, the US and China, in that order.
Source: Peter Kohli of DMS for Nasdaq.com
