ETFs

RBS has added five emerging and frontier markets funds to its range of Market Access ETFs, listed in on the Deutsche Bӧrse in Frankfurt.

ETP assets decreased during August as low inflows, combined with market events, knocked US$68bn off the global market, BlackRock reports.

Source and Pimco have added to their range of joint ETFs with the listing of the Pimco Emerging Markets Advantage Local Bond Index Source ETF.

ETFM brings you a roundup of some of this week's ETF and indexing news.

Despite hype around ETFs following losses at UBS the value proposition they offer has not changed, said an ETF provider at the Journal of Indexes Europe meeting yesterday.

The Investment Management Association (IMA) believes that recent proposals by ESMA to apply greater regulation to Ucits ETFs and structured Ucits products are both unwarranted and inconsistent.

iShares has listed its first ETFs tracking the stocks of companies involved in producing commodities.

Alan Price, sales director at index services company Indxis talks about his kids' eclectic music taste and home renovations.

As equity markets rose last week, ETF volumes remained above average and there was some cautious risk-taking to be seen.

Ben Johnson, director of ETF European research at Morningstar takes a look at the facts behind the UBS trading loss.