ETFs

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.

HSBC has launched the S&P Bric 40 ETF on the London Stock Exchange, with a total expense ratio of 0.60%.

The FSA has warned leveraged ETFs could be classed as 'generally unsuitable' for the mainstream retail market, along with complicated structured products and trade life policy investments.

The first two fixed income ETFs from the Pimco Source partnership have been launched on the Deutsche Boerse's Xetra platform.

Db x-trackers has listed its db Equity Strategies Hedge Fund Index ETF, tracking the performance of 17 long-short and neutral equity hedge funds.

iShares has reached its 100th ETF on the London Stock Exchange with the launch of the MSCI Poland ETF.

ETF Securities has seen flows into its All Commodities ETC so far this year outstrip those into any of its other commodity securities.