Europe ETF News for the Past Year
New equity ETF from iShares on Xetra: access to climate-friendly Japanese companies with currency hedging
August 7, 2024--Since today, a new exchange-traded fund from iShares has been tradable via Xetra and Börse Frankfurt.
The iShares MSCI Japan ESG Enhanced UCITS ETF EUR Hedged (Acc) offers investors the opportunity to invest in a portfolio of a subset of Japanese equities within the MSCI Japan Index. The fund aims to exceed the decarbonisation and other minimum standards of the CTB Benchmark Regulation.
Stock selection takes an ESG optimisation approach to maximise exposure to sustainable companies and reduce carbon emissions exposure relative to the parent index.
This is a currency hedged share class against the euro.
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Source: Xetra
UK official holdings of international reserves: July 2024
August 5, 2024--This release details movements in the international reserves of gold and assets held by the UK government.
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Source: gov.uk
New ETF from First Trust on Xetra: access to the US equity market for companies with the highest momentum ranking
August 5, 2024--Since Monday, a new exchange-traded fund from First Trust has been tradable on Xetra and Börse Frankfurt.
The First Trust US Momentum UCITS ETF tracks the performance of the iNDEX US Momentum Index. The benchmark index is currently composed of 180 companies with the highest momentum ranking out of over 750 of the largest listed companies in the United States.
The momentum ranking per company is determined by a) the difference between the current price and the average price over the last eight months and b) the difference between the average price over the last 50 days and the average price over the last 200 days.
In addition, no more than 40 companies may belong to the same sector.
The composition of the index is updated quarterly.
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Source: Xetra
ECB Working Paper-Climate risk, bank lending and monetary policy
August 2, 2024--Combining euro-area credit register and carbon emission data, we provide evidence of a climate risk-taking channel in banks’ lending policies. Banks charge higher interest rates to firms featuring greater carbon emissions, and lower rates to firms committing to lower emissions, controlling for their probability of default.
Both effects are larger for banks committed to decarbonization. Consistently with the risk-taking channel of
monetary policy, tighter policy induces banks to increase both credit risk premia and carbon emission premia, and reduce lending to high emission firms more than to low emission ones.
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Source: ecb.europa.eu
DWS bucks trend with launch of Chinese mid-cap ETF
August 15, 2024--Fund debut comes despite closure of similar products by rival managers
The Xtrackers CSI500 Swap Ucits ETF uses indirect replication to track the CSI 500 Net Total Return index, which consists of the 500 predominantly medium and small-cap companies trading on the Shanghai Stock Exchange or Shenzhen Stock Exchange.
Launched at the end of July, the ETF has a total expense ratio of 0.35 per cent and has been registered for sale across much of Europe, including France, Germany and Italy
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Source: ft.com
ESMA delivers opinion on global crypto firms using their non-EU execution venues
July 31, 2024--The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), the EU's financial markets regulator and supervisor authority, issued today an Opinion to address the risks presented by global crypto firms seeking authorisation under the Markets in Crypto Assets (MiCA) Regulation for part of their activities (crypto brokerage) while keeping a substantial part of their group activities (intra-group execution venues) outside the European Union (EU) regulatory scope.
ESMA recognises risks associated with global crypto firms' complex structures where execution venues fall outside of the scope of MiCA. Such structures may include the involvement of an EU-authorised broker effectively routing orders to an intra-group execution venue based outside the EU, potentially leading to diminished consumer protection and to an unlevel playing field with EU-authorised execution venues.
Considering these risks ESMA recommends National Competent Authorities (NCAs) to be vigilant during the authorisation process and to assess business structures of global firms to ensure that they do not bypass obligations established in MiCA, to protect consumers and ensure transparent and orderly functioning of crypto markets.
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Source: esma.europa.eu
A new bond ETF from Amundi on Xetra: access to US government bonds with a maturity of 7-10 years
July 31, 2024--Since today, a new exchange-traded fund issued by Amundi Asset Management has been tradable via Xetra and Börse Frankfurt.
The Amundi US Treasury Bond 7-10Y UCITS ETF tracks the performance of the Bloomberg Barclays US Treasury 7-10 Year Index.
This gives investors access to the bond market for US government bonds with a remaining maturity of at least 7 and a maximum of 10 years.
These are US dollar-denominated government bonds with a fixed coupon, which must have an investment grade rating and a minimum volume of US$300 million. The interest income is reinvested.
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Source: Xetra
BlackRock joins active ETF fray with five fund launches
July 31, 2024--World's largest asset manager unveils series of European-listed equity strategies.
BlackRock has thrown its hat into the active ETF ring with the launch of five European-listed equity products as part of an effort to access this fast-growing market.
The five iShares Equity Enhanced Active Ucits ETFs are designed to provide clients access to consistent alpha portfolio tools through ETFs, said the asset manager.
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Source: citywire.com
Euro area economic and financial developments by institutional sector: first quarter of 2024
July 26, 2024--July 26, 2024--Euro area net saving increased to €809 billion in four quarters to first quarter of 2024, compared with €785 billion one quarter earlier
Household debt-to-income ratio decreased to 85.7% in first quarter of 2024 from 90.9% one year earlier
Non-financial corporations' debt'to'GDP ratio (consolidated measure) declined to 67.6% in first quarter of 2024 from 70.6% one year earlier
Total euro area economy
Euro area net saving increased to €809 billion (6.9% of euro area net disposable income) in the four quarters to the first quarter of 2024, as compared with €785 billion in the four-quarter period ending in the fourth quarter of 2023. Euro area net non-financial investment decreased to €525 billion (4.5% of net disposable income), mainly due to decreased investment by non-financial corporations (see Chart 1 and table 1 in the Annex).
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Source: ECB
ECB-Monetary developments in the euro area: June 2024
July 25, 2024--Annual growth rate of broad monetary aggregate M3 increased to 2.2% in June 2024 from 1.5% in May (revised from 1.6%)
Annual growth rate of narrower monetary aggregate M1, comprising currency in circulation and overnight deposits, was -3.4% in June, compared with -5.0% in May
Annual growth rate of adjusted loans to households stood at 0.3% in June, unchanged from previous month
Annual growth rate of adjusted loans to non-financial corporations increased to 0.7% in June from 0.3% in May
Components of the broad monetary aggregate M3
The annual growth rate of the broad monetary aggregate M3 increased to 2.2% in June 2024 from 1.5% in May, averaging 1.7% in the three months up to June. The components of M3 showed the following developments. The annual growth rate of the narrower aggregate M1, which comprises currency in circulation and overnight deposits, was -3.4% in June, compared with -5.0% in May. The annual growth rate of short-term deposits other than overnight deposits (M2-M1) decreased to 12.7% in June from 14.7% in May. The annual growth rate of marketable instruments (M3-M2) increased to 18.6% in June from 17.5% in May.
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Source: ECB
