LIMEYARD partners with the Vienna Stock Exchange to add real-time index calculation and data dissemination to its proprietary and non-proprietary index offering
LIMEYARD announces a strategic partnership with the Vienna Stock Exchange (Wiener Börse AG) aimed at strengthening its index offering globally by providing real-time index calculation and data dissemination.
Solactive launches Industrial Robotics & Automation Index
The index holds globally listed companies with a minimum market capitalization of USD 1 billion operating in sectors such as factory automation equipment, semiconductors, industrial machine parts, and programmable logic devices. The index rules only select companies with (...)
BlackRock has launched the BlackRock Global Funds (BGF) Dynamic High Income Fund
BlackRock has launched the BlackRock Global Funds (BGF) Dynamic High Income Fund (the Fund), which seeks to broaden income sources for investors at a time when finding attractive traditional income has been a challenging (...)
BNP Paribas Asset Management launches two private debt strategies and strengthens team with new hires
BNP Paribas Asset Management (‘BNPP AM’) announces the launch at the end of 2017 of two private debt strategies, European Infra Debt and European Real Estate Debt. The launches are BNPP AM’s first within infrastructure debt and commercial real estate (...)
BlackRock expands high yield range with fixed maturity bond fund
BlackRock has launched a high yield fixed maturity bond fund, in response to investor demand for alternative sources of return and ways to build income-focused, diversified and efficient bond portfolios.
ETFs/ETP Assets Listed In Europe Reach Record Of $522 Billion End Of Q1 2016
Assets invested in ETFs/ETPs listed in Europe reach a new record high of US$522 billion US at the end of Q1 2016, according to preliminary data from ETFGI’s March 2016 global ETF and ETP industry insights report. ETFs/ETPs listed in Europe gathered net inflows of US$5.11 Bn (...)
During the first quarter of 2016, hedge funds suffered a 2% drawdown according to the Lyxor Hedge Fund index. Across hedge fund strategies, CTAs and Merger Arbitrage have been the only segments of the industry being able to post returns in positive territory in (...)
Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan (Ontario Teachers’) announced a rate of return on investments of 13.0% for the year ended December 31, 2015, resulting in an increase in net assets to a record $171.4 billion from $154.5 billion at the end of (...)
A more dovish FOMC than expected on March 16 offered the equity rally another leg up. The Fed shaved off its growth and inflation forecasts and its median dot was revised two notches down. Bond yields weakened and the downward pressure on the dollar further supported oil (...)
Monthly European ETF Market Trends - March 2016 in brief
European ETF Market flows reached a one-year record low in February 2016. Outflows during this month amounted to EUR271M. Total Assets under Management are down 5% vs. the end of 2015, reaching EUR428.5bn, and including a negative market impact (...)