Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management has launched the first exchange-traded fund (ETF) on the European market to provide investors with exposure to China’s domestic sovereign bond market.
The db x-trackers II Harvest CSI China Sovereign Bond UCITS ETF (DR) is a physical replication ETF that tracks the performance of an index of 35 onshore renminbi-denominated bonds issued by the Chinese government.
Euronext and Vigeo create a new esg index dedicated to companies from emerging market countries
Euronext, the primary exchange in the Eurozone, and Vigeo, the leading European agency in Corporate Social Responsibility ratings, will launch a new ESG Index on the 22 June 2015: Euronext-Vigeo EM 70.
Lyxor and J.P.Morgan team up to launch an innovative range of risk factor ETFs
Lyxor ETF, the second largest issuer of ETFs in Europe in terms of inflows year to date, with almost EUR 50 billion in assets under management, is partnering with J.P. Morgan to launch a new range of risk factor (...)
Lyxor announces it has been awarded by S&P Dow Jones Indices (S&P DJI) a license on the S&P China Sovereign Bond 1-10 Year Spread Adjusted Index, in order to launch and list a China Government Bond ETF in (...)
Source launches ETFs with focus on eurozone and japanese exporters
Source, one of the largest providers of Exchange Traded Products (ETPs) in Europe, is pleased to announce the launch of the Source STOXX Eurozone Exporters UCITS ETF and the Source STOXX Japan Exporters UCITS ETF, which track the new STOXX International Exposure (...)
Low Beta strategies lead the pack as equities drop
Unstable market conditions were supportive for hedge funds, in relative terms. Liquid hedge fund benchmarks were down -1% in March, with Distressed and Special Situations strategies underperforming. On a positive note, low beta strategies did (...)
We maintain an overweight stance on Fixed Income Arbitrage, a strategy that has delivered attractive returns on a risk adjusted basis in the past and provides protection against rising bond yields. In the L/S Equity space, we prefer U.S. funds compared to European (...)
ETFGI reports ETFs and ETPs listed globally gathered net inflows of US$12.38 billion in February 2018, the lowest amount since May 2016
ETFGI, a leading independent research and consultancy firm on trends in the global ETF/ETP ecosystem, reported today that ETFs and ETPs listed globally gathered US$12.38 Bn in net inflows, the lowest monthly amount since May 2016 when net inflows were US$10.53 Bn. YTD 2018 (...)
Hedge funds outperformed but the devil is in the details
The return of market volatility in February hurt equity markets significantly. For the first time in 15 months, the MSCI World ended the month in the red, down -3.5%, as EMU and Japanese markets underperformed.
Has the selloff left scars on stock pickers and trend-followers?
Hedge funds strongly recovered from the selloff, with only two exceptions: i) the fixed income funds, flat this week, still isolated from the epicenter, and ii) neutral equity funds, still suffering from sector and factor rotations. This week, we checked if the selloff (...)