Bats Global Markets, Inc. (Bats:BATS) just welcomed a new Global X Fund to the Bats ETF Marketplace. The Global X U.S. Infrastructure Development ETF (Bats: PAVE) seeks to provide investment results that correspond generally to the price and yield performance of the Indxx U.S. Infrastructure Development Index. The fund holds a basket of companies involved in…
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Online trading industry broker IG Group Holdings plc (LON:IGG) has announced that it is offering commission free trading on all ETFs held in ISA accounts, allowing investors to buy and sell them for free during March and April. IG's ISA offer allows new and existing customers to trade from a range of more than 1,200 ISA…
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Bats Global Markets, Inc.(Bats: BATS), the U.S. market for exchange-traded fund (ETF) trading, welcomed a suite of four new PowerShares ETFs to the Bats ETF Marketplace. The products include: The PowerShares Conservative Multi-Asset Allocation Portfolio (Bats: PSMC) which seeks total return consistent with a lower level of risk relative to the broad stock market. The…
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Six new equity index funds issued by BNP Paribas Easy SICAV have been tradable via Xetra since Tuesday, Deutsche Börse just announced. The six new BNP Paribas Easy ETFs enable investors to participate in the performance of stock corporations domiciled in Europe or the US which are selected based on one of the following criteria:…
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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has announced that the Morgan Stanley Smith Barney unit of investment bank Morgan Stanley (NYSE:MS) has agreed to pay an $8 million penalty and admit wrongdoing to settle charges related to single inverse ETF investments it recommended to advisory clients. The SEC’s order finds that Morgan Stanley did not…
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In recent years, the market in exchange-traded funds (ETFs) has grown rapidly, both in Europe and globally. In a study of the French ETF market, the AMF analyses this growth’s consequences on market liquidity and stability. Under the influence of investors searching for yield and low-cost products, the ETF market has grown significantly, with global…
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ETFGI, the independent research and consultancy firm on trends in the global ETF/ETP ecosystem, just reported assets invested in ETFs/ETPs listed globally reached a new record high of US$3.689 trillion at the end January 2017 surpassing the prior record of US$3.546 trillion set at the end of December 2016. ETFs/ETPs gathered a record level of…
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