December 2014
Interview Yves Choueifaty : "Our Smart Beta strategy is designed to maximize diversification of any given investment universe"
According to Yves Choueifaty, Founder and President of TOBAM, The main advantage of the TOBAM’s Anti-US Credit Benchmark® is to build a portfolio without "bias" towards highly indebted issuers or those belonging to a particular (...)
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December 2014
Innovation Source and Pimco launch first actively managed low duration corporate bond ETFs
PIMCO, a leading global investment management firm, and Source, a leading European provider of Exchange Traded Products (ETPs), are launching the first ETFs in Europe that provide actively managed exposure to the short-dated segment of the investment grade corporate bond (...)
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November 2014
Innovation Lyxor AM and Finvex Group launch the first indexed ETF on low-volatility European SRI equities
The aim of this ETF is to improve the stability of a portfolio of European equities, thereby optimising its performance. The index strategy is therefore founded on a two-pronged risk management approach that considers “qualitative risk” by filtering the investment universe in (...)
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November 2014
Strategy A smart selection process for ETFs
Logic might suggest that all ETFs replicating the same market index are themselves the same. And yet, you do not have to be an experienced ETF investor to know that this is clearly a misconception. In practice, performance can vary. It is necessary to know which objective (...)
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November 2014
Strategy ETF Liquidity: A vital measure of efficiency
ETFs are investment funds that can be traded on stock exchanges like ordinary shares. ETFs’ liquidity depends on several factors, including the liquidity of the underlying securities and the structures put in place by the ETF issuer to facilitate trading. In this expert (...)
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November 2014
Strategy The ETF Inside Out experience
ETFs were designed to allow investors accessing broad indices while only trading into a single security, at low costs and with all protections inherent to collective investments. The reality is probably more complex...
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November 2014
News Monthly European ETF Market Trends
European ETF Market flows resumed in October 2014 after the September break. NET NEW ASSETS (NNA) during this month amounted to EUR6.1bn, slightly above August 2014 level. Total Assets under Management are up 22% vs. the end of (...)
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November 2014
News The ETF market is the fastest growing segment of the asset management industry
Global ETF assets - these index products emerged in the asset management industry in the early 2000s - have reached the record level of 2 400 billion at the end of 2013, reaching global hedge fund assets...
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November 2014
Innovation State Street Global Advisors Launches the First European ETF to Provide Short Maturity Emerging Market Bond Exposure
The new ETF, which tracks the BofA Merrill Lynch 0–5 Year EM USD Government Bond ex-144a Index, looks to reflect the performance of short-maturity emerging market government debt issued in US dollars.
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November 2014
Innovation Source launches Europe’s first Biotechnology ETF
Source, an investment firm and a leading provider of Exchange Traded Products (ETPs), is pleased to announce the launch of the Source NASDAQ Biotech UCITS ETF, the first Europe-listed ETF to track the NASDAQ Biotechnology (...)
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November 2014
Innovation BofA Merrill Lynch Global Research Launches Green Bond Index
The index is designed to track the performance of debt issued by quasi-governments and corporations where the proceeds of the issue are to be used solely for projects and activities that promote climate or other environmental sustainability (...)
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November 2014
Innovation Nomura publishes Nomura Japan Equity High Dividend 70, Total Dividend Weighted Index
Nomura Securities Co., Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of Nomura Holdings, Inc., today announced that it has published a new index named the Nomura Japan Equity High Dividend 70, Total Dividend Weighted.
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October 2014
Innovation Source lists its second sector ETF on London Stock Exchange
Source is pleased to announce that it is listing the Source EURO STOXX Optimised Banks UCITS ETF on the London Stock Exchange (LSE). The fund provides exposure to banks within the Eurozone and is optimised to reduce exposure to illiquid stocks. This optimisation produces a (...)
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October 2014
Note EDHEC-Risk Institute publication shows that smart beta risks can be controlled while benefitting from smart beta performance
A new EDHEC-Risk Institute publication entitled “Risk Allocation, Factor Investing and Smart Beta: Reconciling Innovations in Equity Portfolio Construction,” drawn from the Amundi ETF & Indexing research chair at EDHEC-Risk Institute on “ETF and Passive Investment (...)
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October 2014
Innovation Koris International launches trackinsight.com first european ETFs analysis platform
Koris International, European reference in dynamic asset allocation solutions, today announces the launch of TrackInsightTM, the first platform providing analyses on the replication quality of European ETFs for institutional (...)
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