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Official Statistics: Forecasts for the UK economy: October 2017
October 18, 2017--Forecasts for the UK economy is a monthly comparison of independent forecasts.
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Source: HM Treasury
BNY Mellon hires European ETF platform leader
October 18, 2017--Rob Rushe was named European ETF segment executive at BNY Mellon, said a spokesman for the firm.
The position is new.
Mr. Rushe is based in Dublin and reports to Jeff McCarthy, CEO of exchange-traded funds at BNY Mellon. He leads the firm's European ETF platform.
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Source: Pensions & Investments
Ultumus-iShares brings US dollar options to London
October 17, 2017--UK
iShares cross-lists across currencies.
iShares is adding flavour to some of its most successful ETFs on the London Stock Exchange, adding a US dollar option to the following funds:
iShares Global High Yield Corp Bond UCITS ETF USD Dist (HYLA)
iShares Automation & Robotics UCITS ETF USD Acc (RBOD)
iShares Core FTSE 100 UCITS ETF GBP Dist (ISFD)...
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Source: ULTUMUS-Financial Data Management
New Amundi equity index ETF on European companies launched on Xetra
October 17, 2017--ETF tracks performance of EURO STOXX 50 Index.
A new exchange traded fund issued by Amundi has been tradable on Xetra and Börse Frankfurt.
This equity index ETF allows investors to participate in the performance of the EURO STOXX 50 Index. The reference index contains the 50 largest and best-performing companies from 12 euro zone countries, selected using market capitalisation criteria.
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Source: Deutsche Börse Cash Market
United Kingdom: Maintain close ties with EU to meet challenges of Brexit
October 17, 2017--The U.K. economy has weakened in the aftermath of the decision to leave the European Union. Maintaining close ties with the EU and implementing policies to boost productivity will be crucial for maintaining future living standards, according to a new report from the OECD.
The latest OECD Economic Survey of the United Kingdom details developments since the June 2016 vote to leave the EU, highlighting growing uncertainties and a number of risks. This includes the hit on households' purchasing power from higher inflation, declining savings rates, and a fall in net migration. It lays out a range of policy options for meeting the challenges posed by Brexit and building a stronger and more inclusive U.K. economy going forward.
view the summary-Overview of the Economic Survey of the United Kingdom 2017
Source: OECD
Blackrock launches ESG ETF that outperforms parent index
October 17, 2017--Blackrock has launched an ETF that tracks an index that outperforms its parent through focussing on environment, social and governance factors.
The iShares MSCI World SRI Ucits ETF is Blackrock's eleventh ESG ETF in Europe. It has a TER of 0.30 per cent.
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Source: fundstrategy.co.uk
Infrastructure investors may be taking huge risks if they do not diversify their portfolio adequately
October 17, 2017--A new paper examines the characteristics of the EDHEC Private Infrastructure Equity Index and finds that investors that do not sufficiently diversify their private infrastructure portfolio should not expect to receive all the benefits of the 'infrastructure investment narrative.'
"Infrastructure investments are large but also vary considerably in size," says Frederic Blanc-Brude, Director of EDHECinfra, "As a result, many investors holding a dozen or so assets could be making highly concentrated bets and may not get what they have come to expect from infrastructure investing."
view the EDHEC Infrastructure Institute-Singapore
Private Infrastructure Broad Market Equity Indices Benchmarking Europe's Private Infrastructure Equity Investments 2000-2016 report
Source: EDHEC Infrastructure Institute-Singapore (EDHECinfra)
ESMA launches key MiFID II and MAR financial instrument reference database
October 16, 2017--The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has today launched the second phase of its Financial Instrument Reference Database (FIRDS).
The launch involves providing access to the database containing the currently available reference data that will eventually enable market participants to identify instruments subject to MAR and MiFID II/MiFIR reference data reporting requirements. This will allow market participants to prepare their reporting systems ahead of the go-live date on 3 January 2018.
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Source: ESMA
New Crypto Currency Index Tracks Booming Crypto Currency Marketplace
October 16, 2017--Freely Available Index is the Benchmark for Crypto Currency Investors
In the "Crypto Valley" of Zug, the world's capital of crypto currencies and blockchain, the Crypto Currency Index (CCI30) has been presented to the public.
Comprised of the 30 crypto currencies with the biggest market capitalization, the CCI30 is the first index of its kind to track the booming crypto currency marketplace. Its constituent currencies represent 93% of the world's total crypto currencies market cap.
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Source: Hermes Asset Management
Lipper-Review of the European ETF Market, September 2017
October 16, 2017--The promoters of ETFs in Europe enjoyed net inflows for September. The assets under management in the European ETF industry (€598.7 bn) increased for September, up from €581.6 bn at the end of August. The increase of €17.1 bn for September was mainly driven by the performance of the underlying markets (+€10.5 bn), while net sales contributed €6.6 bn to the assets under management in the ETF segment.
With regard to the overall number of products, it was not surprising that equity funds (€420.3 bn) held the majority of the assets, followed by bond funds (€149.9 bn), commodity products (€17.8 bn), "other" funds (€7.0 bn), money market funds (€3.6 bn), mixed-asset funds (€0.6 bn), and alternative UCITS products (€0.4 bn).
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Source: Detlef Glow, Head of EMEA Research-Thomson Reuters Lipper
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