ETFs

Laurent Kssis at LaBranche Structured Products Europe (LSPE) discusses European ETF trades for the week ending 28 January.

The rapid expansion of the ETP industry has opened access to commodities, allowing more investors to tap the asset class, ETF Securities says.

The way in which an ETF is constructed can help determine its potential investor base, according to State Street Global Advisors (SSgA).

Assets in ETFs and ETPs are expected to reach $2trn worldwide by early 2012, according to BlackRock analysts.

Isabelle Bourcier, the former global head of ETFs at Lyxor Asset Management, has been appointed as head of business development at Ossiam, the ETF subsidiary of Natixis Global Asset Management.

Source has launched its Man GLG Europe Plus Source ETF, an actively managed strategy investing in European stocks recommended by a pool of leading brokers.

Standard & Poor's saw 95 ETFs launched on its stock market indices in 2010, the biggest annual total in the index provider's history.

HSBC has released a China ETF on the London Stock Exchange, boosting its range of products tracking the emerging markets.

Lyxor Asset Management is celebrating a decade in the ETF industry, having launched its Cac 40 fund on the Paris Stock Exchange in 2001.

Lyxor Asset Management has unveiled two ETFs providing exposure to European high yield bonds and emerging market sovereign debt, listed in the UK and France.