ETFs

ProShares has launched two ETFs providing leveraged exposure to the US Treasury market on the NYSE Arca exchange.

ETF Securities has listed a gold exchange-traded commodity (ETC) on the Xetra platform of the Deutsche Boerse.

Lyxor Asset Management has released its inaugural range of real estate ETFs on NYSE Euronext exchanges in Europe.

FTSE Group and the EDHEC-Risk Institute have collaborated to create a range of risk adjusted indices, providing an alternative to traditional market capitalisation-weighted index ranges.

Daiwa Capital Markets is bolstering its Asian derivatives business, including the development of ETFs as part of the firm's growing equity finance department.

Marshall Wace has unveiled an equity market-neutral ETF on the London and Frankfurt stock exchanges.

Global X Management has listed an ETF providing exposure to the Chinese materials market on the NYSE Arca exchange in the US.

Xmtch, the ETF arm of Credit Suisse, has released seven ETFs tracking MSCI indices on the Six Swiss Exchange.

Amundi Investment Solutions has listed 13 ETFs on NYSE Euronext European exchanges.

Equity manager RCM, a subsidiary of Allianz Global Investors, is set to launch a diversified growth fund in the first quarter that invests only in ETFs.