Search Results for: ETF
City grandee Rich Ricci joins fintech revolution at freemarketFX
February 11th, 2016
Rich Ricci, formerly CEO of Barclays Corporate and Investment Banking, is the latest in a growing list of financial services grandees to lend their business heft to a disruptive technology startup, joining currency exchange freemarketFX as chairman. Launched by ...
Euronext Amsterdam welcomes 52 UBS Asset Management ETFs
February 1st, 2016
New issuer marks strong growth of Dutch ETF market Euronext Amsterdam welcomed UBS Asset Management,a large-scale asset manager with long experience in the field of ETFs and index investing,as its new ETF issuer. UBS Asset Management listed 52 new ...
World’s first Indian fixed income ETF launched on Xetra
November 17th, 2015
The world’s first Indian fixed income ETF has been listed on Xetra and the Börse Frankfurt venue on Tuesday. The LAM Sun Global ZyFin India Sovereign Enterprise Bond ETF (ISIN IE00BYZ5HD97), jointly issued by ZyFin Holdings Pte. Limited and Sun ...
BlackRock partners with Euroclear and Clearstream to migrate 20 ETFs to international settlement structure
November 13th, 2015
Centralised post-trade arrangements increase liquidity, efficiency and reduce cost BlackRock, Euroclear and Clearstream have partnered to migrate 20 iShares ETFs to an international issuance and settlement structure. BlackRock issued the first ETF with an international security structure in 2013, ...
Gold Price Drops ‘Clean Through Support’ as Precious ETFs Shrink, US Jobs Hit Forecast
November 5th, 2015
GOLD PRICE losses of 2.4% for the week so far worsened in London trade Wednesday as global stock markets rose sharply and new US jobs data put net hiring in the world’s largest economy just ahead of analyst forecasts ...
ETF industry expects nearly 18% growth per year over next three to five years
October 20th, 2015
90% of ETF providers expect positive net new business in next 18 months 27% expect cumulative annual growth rate of more than 25% over next three to five years US continues to lead ETF market, though Europe and Asia ...
ETFs are the next frontier for liquid alternatives
October 12th, 2015
Mutual funds have been the go-to wrapper for alternative strategies, but that’s changing To investors, State Street Global Advisors might be best known as the firm behind the plainest of plain-vanilla investment products: the SPDR S&P 500 ETF (SPY). The exchange-traded ...
Saudi Arabia Just Got Turned Into an ETF
September 17th, 2015
Now that you can have instant exposure to Middle Eastern stocks, the question is: Do you want it? Like a game of Risk, the entire world is slowly but surely getting wrapped up by U.S. exchange-traded fund issuers. The IShares MSCI Saudi ...
Exchange-Traded Funds (ETF) trading has gone insane
July 31st, 2015
Activity led by SPY, which trades about $24 billion a day for eye-popping turnover of 3,400% Everyone is talking about how exchange-traded funds have now overtaken hedge funds in terms of total assets. That’s small change compared with how much ...
Swiss Exchange reports ETF Quarterly Statistics
July 24th, 2015
In the second quarter of 2015, the Swiss stock exchange saw a trading volume in ETFs of CHF 20.9 billion. Compared to the previous quarter this represents an increase of 11%. This was revealed in the latest edition of ...
