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STOXX expands Global 3D Printing Index Family with launch of pure play index
July 24, 2013--STOXX Limited, the market-moving provider of innovative, tradable and global index concepts, today introduced the STOXX Global 3D Printing Pure Play Index, which tracks "pure play" companies that are highly involved in the 3D printing sector.
“The STOXX Global 3D Printing Pure Play Index provides market participants with a transparent and rules-based barometer of leading stocks in the flourishing 3D printing sector,” said Hartmut Graf, chief executive officer, STOXX Limited. “The new index focuses solely on pure play or highly involved companies in the 3D printing business, making it truly representative of this expanding market.”
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Source: STOXX
DB-Synthetic Equity & Index Strategy-Europe-ETF Research-European Weekly ETF Market Review
July 24, 2013--The most recent issue of the European Weekly ETF Market Review is now available.
The report includes key statistics on the European ETF market as well as global ETF market highlights. For more detailed coverage please refer to the monthly report, issued in the first week following the end of each month.
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Source: Deutsche Bank -Synthetic Equity & Index Strategy -Europe
Ensuring Markets Work Well For Consumers And For Firms
UK's Financial Conduct Authority Publishes Guidance On Its Approach To Objectives
July 24, 2013--Publishing the latest guidance on how the FCA intended to deliver its statutory responsibilities, The FCA Approach To Advancing Its Objectives, Martin Wheatley focused on the objective to promote effective competition in consumers' interests.
He said markets that work well offer consumers the best chance to get the products they need at the right terms. This will also benefit those firms that place consumers at the heart of their business.
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Source: FCA.org.uk
Addressing Remuneration Requirements for the EU Fund Management Industry
July 24, 2013--Increasing regulation of remuneration is being introduced across the European Union, including the possibility of limits on the amounts of bonuses that may be paid by certain firms.
Recent European Union ("EU") legislation, including the Capital Requirements Directive and Regulation (together, "CRD IV"), proposed amendments to the EU Directive for Undertakings in Collective Investment in Transferable Securities ("UCITS") and provisions in the EU's Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive ("AIFMD") all impose remuneration requirements on applicable institutions. The implications are significant and wide-ranging, and we summarise these below, together with some of the practical implications for alternative investment fund managers ("AIFMs") of alternative investment funds ("AIFs") and for UCITS management companies
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Source: K&L Gates
Rewiring Europe's ETP Industry
July 23, 2013--European exchange-traded products are being delisted at a record rate as the region battles with fragmented liquidity and high running costs.
During the first half of this year, 231 ETPs were delisted from European exchanges compared with 189 for the whole of 2012, according to data from consultancy ETFGI.
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Source: Wall Street Journal
DAX ex Financials 30 Index licensed for the first time to Deka Investment
July 22, 2013--Deutsche Börse today announced that the DAX ex Financials 30 Index has been licensed to Deka Investment to underlie an exchange-traded fund (ETF). The Deka DAX ex Financials 30 UCITS ETF is tradable on Xetra as of today.
ETF name: Deka DAX ex Financials 30 UCITS ETF
Asset class: equity index ETF
ISIN: DE000ETFL433
Total expense ratio: 0.30 percent
Distribution policy: distributing
Benchmark: DAX ex Financials 30 price index
The DAX ex Financials 30 Index is geared toward institutional investors who want to access the performance of a fixed number of leading German companies without exposure to the financials industry. The index reflects the 30 largest and most actively traded companies in the Prime Standard Segment of the FWB® Frankfurter Wertpapierbörse (the Frankfurt Stock Exchange). Excluded are companies in the supersector FIRE, which comprises the sectors Banks, Financial Services and Insurance, according to the Deutsche Börse classification scheme.
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Source :Deutsche Börse
Platform disparity grows as AJ Bell adds 70 ETFs and trusts
Earlier this year Cofunds, FundsNetwork and Skandia all said that they have no plans to add investment trusts.
July 22, 2013--AJ Bell has announced it has added 70 exchange traded funds and investment trusts to its Sippcentre platform.
AJ Bell’s Regular Investment Service, available on the platform, now offers access to more than 6,500 funds as well as FTSE 350 shares, ETFs and investment trusts, the firm said in a statement.
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Source: FTAdviser.com
NYSE Euronext announces new ETF on European markets-EasyETF
July 22, 2013--NYSE Euronext is pleased to announce that EasyETF has listed one new ETF on NYSE Euronext Paris on 23 July, 2013
ETF Symbol: EEA
Listing date: 23/07/2013
ETF Trading name: EASYETF EPRA EURO
Underlying index: FTSE EPRA Eurozone
TER:0.45%
NYSE Euronext now has 673 listings of 584 ETFs listed on its European markets.
Source: NYSE Euronext
Eurex launches options on French government bond futures
July 22, 2013--With effect from 10 September, the international derivatives market Eurex Exchange will launch options on futures that are based on notional long-term bonds issued by the French Republic ("Obligations Assimilables du Tresor"-OAT) with a notional coupon of 6 percent and a remaining maturity of 8.5 to 10.5 years.
The minimum price change (tick size) is measured in points and, as with the Bund options, equals 0.01, corresponding to a tick value of 10 euros. Trading hours are from 8 a.m. to 5.15 p.m. CET.
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Source: Eurex
Hargreaves rules out taking marketing fees from fund groups
July 19, 2013--Hargreaves Lansdown has ruled out the prospect of taking marketing fees from fund groups or allowing advertising on its website, saying it wants to offer a 'transparent' fee structure when new regulations are implemented next year.
In its final rules for platforms, published earlier this year and due to come in to force on 1 January 2014, the Financial Conduct Authority left open the possibility for fund groups to make marketing payments to platforms and pay platforms to run adverts.
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Source: Investment Week
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