Archive for May 2017
May 17th, 2017 |
By George Watson
Vanguard has launched a new investment service for retail investors in the UK that provides direct access to the firm’s ETF range as well as Vanguard’s other funds for an administration fee of just 0.15% per annum. Sean Hagerty, head of Vanguard’s European business, commented: “We aim to deliver investors the highest value investment products and services available with an unwavering commitment to lowering the cost of investing in the UK.”
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Tags: Emerging and Frontier, Equities, ETF and Index News, ETF Industry News, Europe, Fixed Income, FTSE, Global, United Kingdom, United States and Canada, Vanguard
May 17th, 2017 |
By James Lord, CFA
Index provider MSCI has re-confirmed the upgrade of Pakistan from frontier market to emerging markets status following the firm’s latest market reclassification review. The move will see Pakistan rejoin the bellwether MSCI Emerging Markets Index, tracked by several large ETFs in Europe including the giant iShares Core EM IMI UCITS ETF (LON: EIMI).
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Tags: Asia Pacific, DWS Xtrackers, Emerging and Frontier, Equities, ETF and Index News, ETF Industry News, iShares, MSCI, Themes and Strategy, UBS
May 17th, 2017 |
By Guest
By Viktor Nossek, director of research at WisdomTree Europe.
India is at an interesting crossroad where leadership is pro-actively taking tough reforms for long-term growth. Two pillars of the Indian economy, that is consumption and demographics, have encouraging projected growth numbers.
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Tags: Asia Pacific, Emerging and Frontier, Equities, ETF and Index News, ETF Industry News, Themes and Strategy, WisdomTree
May 17th, 2017 |
By James Lord, CFA
Frankfurt-based index provider Solactive has unveiled the Solactive USD Investment Grade Corporate Index, tracking the performance of US dollar-denominated investment grade corporate bonds.
Posted in Fixed Income |
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Tags: ETF and Index News, ETF Industry News, Fixed Income, High Yield, Solactive, United States and Canada
May 17th, 2017 |
By James Lord, CFA
WisdomTree has launched the WisdomTree Barclays Yield Enhanced US Short-Term Aggregate Bond Fund (Bats: SHAG). The ETF seeks to enhance yield but maintain similar risk characteristics compared to the short end of the US Aggregate fixed income universe.
Posted in Fixed Income |
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Tags: Barclays, Bloomberg Indexes, ETF and Index News, ETF Industry News, ETF Launch, Fixed Income, Themes and Strategy, United States and Canada, WisdomTree
May 17th, 2017 |
By James Lord, CFA
Lyxor, the second largest provider of fixed income ETFs in Europe, has launched the Lyxor $ Floating Rate Note UCITS ETF (LON: BUOY), offering bond investors exposure to the US dollar-denominated corporate market with protection from rising interest rates.
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Tags: ETF and Index News, ETF Industry News, ETF Launch, Fixed Income, Global, iShares, Themes and Strategy, UBS, United States and Canada
May 17th, 2017 |
By James Lord, CFA
Assets invested in exchange-traded funds and exchange-traded products listed in Europe reached a new record high of $658 billion at the end of April 2017 surpassing the prior record of $640bn set at the end of Q1 2017, according to analysis by ETF industry consultant ETFGI.
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Tags: Amundi, Equities, ETF and Index News, ETF Industry News, ETFGI, Europe, iShares, Lyxor, Themes and Strategy
May 17th, 2017 |
By James Lord, CFA
London-based ETF issuer First Trust Global Portfolios has launched the First Trust US Equity Income UCITS ETF (UNCA) on Borsa Italiana, marking the first time the firm has issued an ETF on the Milan exchange.
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Tags: Equities, ETF and Index News, ETF Industry News, ETF Launch, Europe, First Trust, High Income, Smart Beta, United States and Canada
May 17th, 2017 |
By George Watson
The Central Bank of Ireland has published a discussion paper on the exchange-traded funds industry to facilitate engagement between the central bank and industry participants on issues related to ETFs.
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Tags: ETF and Index News, ETF Industry News, Europe
May 17th, 2017 |
By George Watson
Allfunds, Europe’s largest fund platform, with more than €280 billion in assets under management, is to launch a new ETF service from 1 June 2017 to supplement the 52,000 funds from 540 fund managers already available to investors.
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Tags: DWS Xtrackers, ETF and Index News, ETF Industry News, Europe, iShares, Lyxor, Source