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Vanguard Asset Management has launched four new Irish-domiciled ETFs, adding to the existing range of five products launched into the European market in 2012.
23 May 2013
While investors in gold ETPs continue to rotate out, buyers of physical gold keep buying more, setting the market up for a continued struggle between those willing to buy physical stocks and those less willing to invest in gold backed securities, says precious metals broker Sharps Pixley.
17 May 2013
Martin Arnold at ETF Securities found considerable interest in Switzerland on the question whether the commodities supercycle is over, when attending the recent InvestmentEurope Fund Selector Forum in Geneva.
08 May 2013
The number of shares held by investors within the SPDR Gold Trust ETF took a dive following the sharp fall in the price of gold in the middle of April, but other ETF providers have reported positive performance since the fall and say long-term investors have not been panicked into selling their gold holdings.
02 May 2013
US manager First Trust has picked the London Stock Exchange (LSE) as the venue to debut its first exchange traded products for the European market.
11 Apr 2013
ETFs remain the favourite choice of investors for passive investment, in spite of the controversies surrounding the use of ETFs in 2011, according to the results of the 2012 EDHEC European ETF Survey published today.
03 Apr 2013
European ETF investors are generally satisfied with the guidelines put forward by ESMA for investor protection, according to the latest EDHEC European ETF Survey 2012.
28 Mar 2013
The flow of money into European Exchange Traded Products slowed in February, with fixed income seeing the greatest relative decline according to figures from Markit Securities Finance.
11 Mar 2013
BlackRock's latest monthly assessment of the exchange traded product (ETP) market has found that strong inflows continued through February, making it the strongest start to the year on record for certain ETP sectors.
04 Mar 2013
Nitesh Shah, associate director Research at ETF Securities, has written in a new note that uncertainty about the strength of the cyclical recovery is one of the key reasons gold is set to rebound from its recent low price.
28 Feb 2013
South Africa has continued to attract ETF inflows, but investors are also shorting parts of the market, such as food retailers over macroeconomic fears, explains Markit Securities Finance.
28 Feb 2013
Short sellers are heading back to the Italian market ahead of elections both for a new government and Pope, at a time when long investors have actually been going heavily into the market for ETPs, says Markit Securities Finance.
22 Feb 2013
Analysing market data, Markit Securities Finance has identified certain trends in the $2trn global exchange traded product (ETP) market so far in 2013.
19 Feb 2013
First Trust Advisors is planning to open up its $4.6bn enhanced index fund range to the UK market, taking on the likes of BlackRock and Vanguard in the ETF space.
13 Feb 2013
Marlène Hassine, ETF Strategy, and Thierry Roncalli, Research & Development at Lyxor Asset Management in Paris, have concluded in a research paper that liquidity spread is a vital parameter for active managers using ETFs to implement tactical asset allocation.
12 Feb 2013
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Strong demand for emerging market debt and equity assets should remain, according to experts in the field.
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A selection of key moments caught on camera from InvestmentEurope's recent Pension Fund Forum in Zurich have been published.
A selection of key moments caught on camera from InvestmentEurope's recent Fund Selector Forum in Geneva have been published.
