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Smart Beta equity ETFs/ETPs listed globally have gathered 53.7 billion US dollars in net new assets in the first 10 months of 2015, according to ETFGI

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… by Guggenheim Investments with US$361 Mn and Charles Schwab Investment Management with US$352 Mn net inflows. YTD, …

ETFGI Press Release April 2015: Europe

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… on April 28th, 2000 the iShares FTSE 100 UCITS ETF (ISF LN) was listed on the London Stock Exchange. Record levels of …

Why ETFs are Some of the Most Cost Efficient Investment Products in the US

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… on exchange liquidity, and bid/ask spreads, etc.. Schwab, with a 7.2 bps average overall TER across their 15 …

Reports of the decline of ETFs have been greatly exaggerated

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… in the first place. They have fundamentally changed the way investors access a variety of markets and asset classes. … Today’s ETF investor is diverse, running the gamut from Wall Street to Main Street. ETFs find their way into portfolios of varying size and complexity because …

ETFGI US Press Release, Year End 2012

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What is a complex investment product?

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… constitutes a “complex” investment product. The topic was raised when I was a speaker at the CFA Institute’s ETFs Best Practice … of index (market cap, smart beta, strategy benchmark), the way the payoff is generated, the expected payoff or some …

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 Jones  Industrial Average. In 1975 Charles Ellis highlighted the … the S&P 500 Index. The first indexed  mutual fund was launched in the United States in 1975. The challenge of …

Evolution not revolution on guidelines from Esma

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… “physical” or “synthetic” should also be in the title. Esma was convinced that this would raise more problems than it … the guidelines. They and the collateral rules relating to swap counterparty exposure are harmonised with additional … of commission and financing costs associated with using swaps in the Kiid while physical funds will have to show …