Exchange-traded products
Carr joins Rabobank as head of ETF marketing
After leaving BNP Paribas in February, Matthew Carr has been appointed head of ETF marketing for Rabobank in London.
Precious metals forum
Gold was a safe haven during the European sovereign debt crisis. How will gold prices, and precious metals financial products, evolve over the coming year?
Credit Suisse launches ETFs on the London Stock Exchange
Credit Suisse has cross-listed its Ucits III ETFs in London as well as adding ETFs which are new to the European market
iShares introduces the first euro high-yield bond ETF
iShares introduces the first euro high-yield bond ETF
ETFs under the spotlight amid high correlation
All together now
Reviewing the use of alternative asset class ETFs
Investors have extended the use of exchange traded funds (ETFs) to alternative investments. Commodities, infrastructure and real estate are popular but hedge funds less so.
Qbasis offers fund management strategy to retail through ETF
Futures fund manager Qbasis seeks a London listing for an ETF based on its strategy
Troika Dialog lists blue-chip ETF on RTS stock exchange
Investment bank and asset manager Troika Dialog has listed the first ETF on the Russian Trading System stock exchange
Robeco: Bond ETFs hampered by low liquidity
Illiquidity in corporate bond markets make it hard for firms to generate index-like returns
HSBC bolsters ETF range with emerging markets offering
HSBC has listed a Brazil ETF in London as it builds its fledgling ETF operations and expands into European markets
ETF issuers confirm tax status
ETF providers in the UK are busy confirming their distributor status, which will allow investors to pay capital gains rather than income tax
Active ETFs need transparency to compete
Active ETFs are changing the way that ETFs are serviced, according to State Street
Exchange-traded product volumes up 13% in 2010
Fixed-income exchange-traded products made money, investors turned to gold and a decline in assets followed falls in the equity markets in the first half of this year
Australia's ETF market set to double by 2012, says iShares
ETF provider iShares predicts that ETF investment in Australia will double by 2012 as investors seek more transparency, liquidity and diversification
Amundi targets institutional demand with Eurostoxx ETFs on NYSE Euronext
Amundi has listed two more ETFs on NYSE Euronext in Paris in response to demand from institutional clients
Lookback: The Which way
An irreverent take on events of the last month, including the Which confusion over structured products, ETF trading, S&P's benchmarks, a Swiss preference for capital protection and more capital gains tax in the UK
Lee reappears at Deutsche Bank as head of GMIP and db-X, Asia
Chris Lee has taken over global market investment products and the db-x division in Asia for Deutsche Bank. Formerly head of the structured products group at UBS, Lee started at Deutsche in the last week of June.
ETFs: investors’ flexible friends
Exchange-traded funds have proliferated in Europe, offering institutional investors enormous investment choice and liquidity at a low cost. We find out how and why these products are attracting the interest of a diverse range of investors and look at the…
Seeking simplicity
As the Benelux region’s structured product market emerges shaken from the global financial crisis, a focus on education is needed to rebuild investor confidence and to make sure structured products are being sold in an appropriate manner. Clare Dickinson…
ETFs: simple, or simply confusing?
Exchange-traded funds first appeared 20 years ago as transparent, easy to understand alternatives to actively managed funds. But as they have developed some of this transparency and simplicity has been lost. The first Structured Products ETF survey asks…
Desperately seeking a benchmark
The market for exchange-traded funds in Asia has been slow to develop. A regional benchmark ETF is still lacking, while the promise of high-volume trading in products cross-listed from Europe and the US has yet to materialise. Richard Jory reports from…
UK investors swap FTSE 100 ETFs for emerging markets
Investors withdraw from ETFs based on the FTSE 100 in the first quarter of the year, preferring investments based on emerging markets and the US and European becnhmarks.