ETFs

ETFM brings you a round-up of some of this week's ETF news.

David Bower, head of marketing for iShares EMEA, unravels some of the misconceptions about exchange-traded instruments.

Commodity exchange-traded products (ETPs) surpassed fixed income for the first time in July, according to Lyxor's European ETP Asset Flow Trends report.

Paul Stanfield, chief executive of the Federation of European Independent Financial Advisers (Feifa)on his love of Bryan Adams and reading thrillers.

Active ETFs have been slow to catch on in Europe but they are being used by investors looking for an alternative to equities, with the usual benefits of an ETF.

ETFM brings you a roundup of some of the week's listings and ETF flows.

Barclays Bank has introduced an exchange-traded note (ETN) which promises to provide investors with access to a dynamic volatility strategy.

The S&P 500 Short-term VIX Futures index shot up by almost 60% in the week to 8 August, triggering a surge in activity in exchange-traded notes (ETNs) on the index.

In volatile week for global equities, fresh year-to-date lows were reached across global indexes last week but ETP volumes picked up significantly.

The ETF market reached US$1.4 trillion at the end of the first half as ETF growth continued, according to BlackRock's Industry Review H1 2011.