Pedagogy EURO STOXX 50® Total Return Futures
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Innovation CI Global Asset Management Launches Two ETFs Tracking Solactive Innovation Indices: CI Bio-Revolution ETF and CI Digital Security ETF
CI Global Asset Management (“CI GAM”) releases two thematic ETFs tracking Solactive’s innovation indices, expanding its engagement with the German index provider.
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Pedagogy Invest in domestic chinese stocks with ETFS-E Fund MSCI China A GO UCITS
In May 2014, ETF Securities partnered with E Fund, one of the largest asset managers in China, to launch a physical exchange-traded fund (ETF) that tracks physical A-shares listed in China. It is the first UCITS ETF to track the MSCI China A (...)
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Innovation Solactive licenses Smart City and Smart Factory Indices to Amundi
According to a forecast of the United Nations, more than 68% of the world’s population will live in urban areas by 2050, and smart technology can help to tackle the challenges emerging from this trend of rapid urbanization...
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Opinion Combining Active and Passive management in a Portfolio
In recent years, long-held ideas on portfolio construction have been called into question. Investors can now choose from a range of “smart beta” strategies, offering exposure to market risk premia in a systematic, transparent fashion. Where does the dividing line between (...)
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Pedagogy Eurex Exchange: Index Total Return Futures (TRF)
Index Total Return Futures (TRF) are designed to offer a listed solution for trading the implied equity repo rate. Index TRFs aim to replicate the payoff profile of an Index Total Return Swaps (TRS) in a cost efficient way. The first TRF product launch will be the EURO STOXX (...)
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News Solactive Launches PAB High-Yield (Y) Indices and Enlarges Paris-Aligned Index Family
Investors have been increasingly considering aligning investment decisions with ESG values. In 2021, this focus increased as the entire world watched heads of states’ debates on effective actions against climate change at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow, (...)
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Innovation Accessing the US Energy Infrastructure with MLP ETFs
ETF Securities, one of the world’s leading, independent providers of exchange traded products (ETPs) has recently launched ETFS US Energy Infrastructure MLP GO UCITS ETF on the London Stock Exchange and Deutsche Boerse (...)
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News ETF Securities Revises Fair Value Target as Brexit Gold Rush Continues
ETF Securities has adjusted its fair value target for gold to $1400, amid a surge in appetite for the precious metal.
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Innovation ProShares, provider of alternative ETFs, launches First Volatility ETFs
The ProShares VIX Short-Term Futures (VIXY) and VIX Mid-Term Futures (VIXM) ETFs provide exposure to equity market volatility
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Interview Philip Tindall : « We see further development of non-market cap approaches in bonds »
According to Philip Tindall, senior investment consultant at Towers Watson, there has been a lot of interest in smart betas area, and investors are beginning to allocate assets - Towers Watson’s clients have invested more than (...)
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News Strives Asset Management Launches Strive 500 ETF, Tracking Solactive GBS United States 500 Index
With the increasing likelihood of a recession on the horizon as inflation rises, investors might want to turn into diversifying their portfolios with options that traditionally are less susceptible to downturns or usually recover from bear markets and (...)
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Innovation MSCI Launches Innovative Family of Low Carbon Indexes
Indexes licensed by Amundi for the creation of index-tracking solutions. Leading asset owners, AP4 and FRR, plan to use new indexes as benchmarks for passive mandates...
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Innovation Solactive launches European Quality Market Neutral Index
Solactive is announcing the launch of the Solactive European Quality Market Neutral Index licensed to Natixis. The index is to be used as an underlying for structured products issued by Natixis.
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Strategy The index revolution (finally) comes to hedge funds
One common knock on factor models is that they “replicate only beta” – not the pure alpha gold that allocators seek. This critique pre-dates the appreciation of factor rotations. Outside of some ivory tower statistics class, no one questions the “alpha” generated by, for (...)
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