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EPFR Global News Release-US Funds outshine EM, Gold and Europe counterparts in early March
March 8, 2013--The first week of March saw the Eurozone's unemployment rate and a benchmark US equities index climb to record highs, China's new leaders move to tighten their grip on the country's property market, North Korea threaten nuclear strikes and central bankers meet in Brazil, Europe and Japan.
Investors responded by pivoting towards the US, with flows into EPFR Global-tracked US Equity and Bond Funds climbing to five and 17 week highs respectively while China Equity Funds posted back-to-back weekly outflows for the first time since early 3Q12.
For the second week running flows sent mixed signals about investors’ risk appetite. Money flowed out of funds tied to gold and cash, Equity Funds outgained Bond Funds overall, Alternative Funds took in over $900 million and High Yield Bond Funds enjoyed their best week since mid-September. But Emerging Markets Equity and Bond Funds struggled, with flows into the latter the lowest in over seven months, and several defensive Sector Fund groups attracted solid amounts of fresh money.
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Source: EPFR
Russell announces exclusive agreements with NYSE Euronext and CBOE Holdings for Russell U.S. index options
New focused "dual-listing" for Russell U.S. Index-based options includes commitment by the two companies to help expand selection, support, service and education for options clients globally.
March 8, 2013--Russell Investments today announced that NYSE Euronext, one of the world's premier exchange operators and technology innovators and home of the NYSE Amex and NYSE Arca exchanges, and CBOE Holdings, Inc., home of Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE), the creator of listed options and leader in index options trading volume, will trade Russell U.S. Index-based options exclusively.
Russell Indexes, which are used as benchmarks by nearly 70% of U.S. institutional equity investors (as of 12/31/11), believes that this semi-exclusive, dual-listing strategy will allow it to fully harness the complementary strengths of these two leading exchange operators in U.S. options. The semi-exclusive trading in Russell Index-based options will begin in late April.
Source: NYSE Euronext
Exchange Traded Derivatives Trading Volumes Decrease 15% in 2012
March 7, 2012--For the first time since 2004, the number of Exchange Traded Derivatives (ETD) worldwide decreased in 2012 by 15% to 21 billion, according to statistics compiled by the World Federation of Exchanges (WFE).
The WFE, which annually conducts a survey on derivative markets, found that in 2012, 21 billion derivative contracts (11 billion futures and 10 billion options) were traded on exchanges worldwide-a decrease from the 25 billion traded in 2011.
Source: World Federation of Exchanges (WFE)
China Macro-Venezuela -limited impact on China
March 7, 2013--The president of Venezuela Hugo Chavez passed away on Tuesday 5 March, triggering market speculation over further turmoil in the country's oil sector and a gradual pick-up of oil production and exports under a new leader.
China’s trade with Venezuela has grown rapidly over the past decade but remains a small share of its total. Therefore, the short-term impact on China is limited. Over the longer term, if China manages to develop a good relationship with Chavez’s successor, China’s imports of petroleum products could see further increases.
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Source: irae Asset Securities (HK) - Global Research Center
China equities on track to go global
March 6, 2013--Mainland Chinese shares are set to join global equity benchmarks as early as three years'time, FTSE's chief executive has forecast, raising the prospect that international investors will have to shift billions of dollars into the market.
Reforms by Beijing have had a “big impact” on how investors view mainland markets, said Mark Makepeace, FTSE chief executive, who is in Asia to “kick off a process” he believes will lead to Chinese equities joining his company’s global indices.
Source: FT.com
SSgA,,Deutsche stand to gain from prompt Esma compliance
March 6, 2013--State Street Global Advisors and Deutsche Bank have changed the name of many exchange traded funds in a move that could see them gaining a commercial advantage over their competitors.
The two firms have incorporated the 'Ucits ETF' term to many of their products in accordance with new guidelines on investor protection, which will not be mandatory for existing ETFs until next year.
A regulator says the early adoption of the guidelines, which came into effect earlier this month, could bring marketing benefits to firms that do not wait until the last minute to comply.
Source: FT.com
NASDAQ OMX and SharesPost to Form Private Market
The Joint Venture-The NASDAQ Private Market-Intends to Enhance the Efficiency and Control of the Market for Private Shares
Pre-IPO Market Will be Open to All Broker-Dealers
March 6, 2013--The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc. (Nasdaq:NDAQ) and SharesPost, Inc. announced today a joint venture that will establish the preeminent marketplace for private growth companies.
The venture combines NASDAQ OMX's market and operating expertise as well as resources with SharesPost's leading web-based platform.
Source: NASDAQ OMX
BlackRock-ETP Research Strongest 2-month start for Equity ETPs
March 6, 2013--February flows of $10.6bn ensured the strongest 2-month start on record for Equities
Following a strong risk rally in January, global ETP flows moderated in February. Developed Market Equity ETPs continued to exhibit strong momentum in February, gathering $13.0bn.
This included $7.3bn in non-US exposures. Sector funds added $4.7bn led by Real Estate with $1.5bn, under the backdrop of improving economic indicators in the US housing markets.
Within Fixed Income, Short Maturity Fixed Income ETPs (including Ultra-Short Term, Short-Term and Floating Rate) saw inflows of $4.0bn while all other maturities saw collective outflows of ($1.3bn) in February.
Gold ETP outflows totaled ($5.6bn) and have now reached ($6.8bn) YTD.
Sources: BlackRock Investment Institute, Bloomberg.
Source: BlackRock-ETP Research
ETFGI-11.4 billion US dollars net inflows into global ETFs and ETPs in February
March 6, 2013--In February 2013, Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) and Exchange Traded Products (ETPs) globally had net inflows of $11.4 billion, according to new research published in the latest ETFGI Global ETF and ETP industry insights.
ETFGI won the Best ETF Research award in 2012 in the ETF Express awards announced on February 28th in London.
Equity ETFs and ETPs gathered the largest net inflows with $11.6 billion, followed by fixed income ETFs and ETPs with $1.3 billion, and active ETFs and ETPs with $1.1 billion, while commodity ETFs and ETPs experienced net outflows with $4.9 billion.
Year to date through end of February 2013, ETFs and ETPs have seen net inflows of $49.1 billion. Equity ETFs and ETPs gathered the largest net inflows year to date with $45.1 billion, followed by fixed income ETFs and ETPs with $2.8 billion, and leveraged inverse ETFs and ETPs with $2.5 billion, while commodity ETFs/ETPs had net outflows of US$5.3 billion.
“The flows into equity ETFs and ETPs show investors are rotating out of cash and fixed income into equities as investor confidence continues to improve,” says Deborah Fuhr, Managing Partner at London-based ETFGI.
In February, equity ETFs and ETPs had net inflows of $11.6 billion. North American equity ETFs and ETPs gathered the largest net inflows $6.6 billion, followed by developed Asia Pacific equity indices with $3.4 billion, and global (ex-US) equity $1.8 billion, while emerging market equity ETFs and ETPs experienced the largest net outflows with $1.4 billion.
The global ETF industry had 3,345 ETFs, with 7,660 listings, assets of $1.86 trillion, from 180 providers on 54 exchanges at the end of February 2013. Including ETFs and other ETPs, at the end of February, the global ETF and ETP industry had 4,764 ETFs and ETPs, with 9,799 listings, assets of $2.04 trillion US dollars, from 209 providers on 56 exchanges.
Vanguard gathered the largest net ETF and ETP inflows in February with $5.95 billion, followed by iShares with $4.23 billion and WisdomTree with $2.16 billion net inflows.
S&P Dow Jones has the largest amount of ETF and ETP assets tracking its benchmarks with $518 billion, reflecting 25.4% market share; MSCI is second with $440 billion and 21.5% market share, followed by BarCap with $182 billion and 8.9% market share.
The top 100 ETFs and ETPs, out of 4,764, account for 59.6% of global ETF and ETP assets. 296 ETFs and ETPs have greater than $1 billion in assets, while 63.3% of all ETFs and ETPs have less than US$100 million in assets, 54% have less than $50 million in assets and 28% have less than $10 million in assets.
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Source: ETFGI
Despite Rise of Renewables, Fossil Fuel Still Fastest Growing Energy Source
New report analyses how the world consumes energy over the past 100 years through post-2030
Growing energy demand in emerging markets is the biggest challenge for the energy sector
In the last decade, demand for coal grew 10 times more than renewables, twice more than for oil and three times more than for gas
Wind, solar and other non-hydro renewable resources provide only 1.6% of total world energy
March 5, 2013--The biggest energy challenge facing the world today is meeting the rapidly growing energy needs of emerging market nations, including the 1.3 billion people that have little or no access to modern energy, according to the World Economic Forum's Energy Vision 2013-Energy Transitions: Past and Future report
launched today at the IHS CERAWeek Conference.
In response to this challenge, policy-makers are looking towards low-carbon and renewable sources of energy. However, 87% of total world primary energy demand is met by oil, coal and natural gas; more than 92% with nuclear energy. Wind, solar, geothermal and other non-hydro renewable resources provide just 1.6% of total world energy.
view the WEF report-Energy Vision 2013 Energy transitions:Past and Future
Source: World Economic Forum (WEF)
