ETFs

RBS has launched the world's first ETF that tracks an index exclusively made up of Commodity Trading Adviser (CTA) managers.

Global ETF redemptions reached the highest level since June 2008 last week, with the majority in the SPDR S&P 500 ETF.

The ETFM roundup brings you news of some of this week's activity in the ETF and indexing market.

The Asian exchange-traded product (ETP) market had inflows of $4bn during August, the record for monthly inflows so far this year.

In a busy year for ETF launches, Standard and Poor's (S&P) has selected only a handful which it favours as the increasingly niche ETFs offered fail to gather assets.

European ETP investors shifted into defensives in August and out of risky assets in response to market volatility, Deutsche Bank reports.

Howard Chan will move to Pimco's London office in October as ETF product manager to help build its European offering.

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The growth of the US ETF market is likely to be driven by active ETFs as a number of potential new issuers are seeking to list them, according to the New York Stock Exchange.

HSBC has listed a broad emerging markets ETF on the London Stock Exchange as it continues its focus on providing emerging markets access to its clients.