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ETFGI Press Release August 2014: Global
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… over the situations in Ukraine and Gaza. The S&P 500 was up 4% in August and closed above the 2,000 threshold for … up slightly, emerging markets gained 3% and Latin America was up 9% in August. August was also a good month for fixed income.” according to …
ETFGI Press Release July 2014: Europe
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… of new money into equity exposures as investor confidence was positive through most of month. The S&P 500 hit an … the month down 2%, while emerging markets gained 2%, Asia was up 5% and frontier markets were up 4% in July.” …
Canada pins its hopes on mutual fund transparency
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… The Netherlands have introduced regulations changing the way retail investors buy funds by banning adviser …
Africa attracts growing interest from ETF providers
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… to foreign exchange-traded funds and mutual funds was rule changes issued in December in South Africa, the … largest pension market in the world, according to Towers Watson. Until recently it was not possible to market most foreign ETFs or mutual funds …
ETFGI Press Release May 2014: Global
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State drives ETF growth in India
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… month, I visited India as a keynote speaker at Motilal Oswal Asset Management’s annual ETF conference in Mumbai. At … Public-sector banks will not be included. The government wants the ETF to be attractive to both retail and … the securities transaction tax on ETFs and mutual funds was reduced from 0.25% to 0.001%. The country’s Ministry of …
ETFs and ETPs on the march post-RDR
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… of the users of ETFs. With the RDR less than a month away, we can see that there has been a significant increase … listings) have delisted and 1 ETF/ETP has merged. Marshall Wace closed its products in January and February 2012 and …
World Federation of Exchange (WFE), September 2012 Focus
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… USD 1.2 billion. Some history The first stock market index was created in 1896 by Charles Dow, which became the Dow … the S&P 500 Index. The first indexed mutual fund was launched in the United States in 1975. The challenge of …
Fuhr: the shooting stars of active management often fall hardest
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… rather than to indexes – by asking whether a fund that was above average in year one is still above average in …
ETFs set to keep on trucking in Europe
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… using exchange traded funds (ETFs) in a greater variety of ways, paving the road ahead for the younger European market. …