ETFs

Barclays Global Investors' (BGI) assets under management increased 12% in the first six months of the year, with the firm's iShares business experiencing the fastest growth, its UK-based parent company Barclays reported today.

Charlotte Moore looks at how investors have used ETFs to handle - and profit from - the volatility in the last two years

ETF investors are increasingly looking at Latin America for investment as these emerging market countries have rebounded more quickly from the economic crisis, as Emma Dunkley reports

A recent press release from Skandia UK, a fund management and wrap platform provider, claimed that while ETFs tout their low costs, a straight comparison with mutual funds of total expense ratios (TERs) can be misleading.

Crédit Agricole Structured Asset Management has listed two ETFs on NYSE Euronext, which track the MSCI China and MSCI India indices.

Source has released 18 ETFs tracking the Dow Jones Stoxx 600 Optimised Supersector indices, which the ETF provider recently created in conjunction with Dow Jones.

Daiwa Securities SMBC has appointed Simon Roche as head of Synthetic Trading, to build a delta one trading book covering pan-European benchmarks.

Pacific Investment Management Company (Pimco) has filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission to launch five active fixed income ETFs - three short duration and two tax exempt - as well as two ETFs that track treasury indices.

Emerging Global Advisors has launched an emerging markets sector ETF, which tracks a composite index comprising a range of sectors across emerging market countries.

The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (Finra) has released further guidance to clarify its position on investing in leveraged and inverse ETFs.