ETFs

Invesco Powershares has agreed an exclusive deal with Keefe, Bruyette and Woods (KBW) for four financial services indexes.

The FTSE Group has axed eight companies from its FTSE4Good Global Index Series, including petroleum giants BP.

Amundi ETF has launched an additional 15 funds on Borsa Italiana, boosting the number of products it has on the exchange to 60.

Commerzbank in partnership with NYSE Euronext has launched two new ETFs on the Lisbon stock exchange.

HSBC has launched an MSCI Pacific ex Japan ETF listed on the London Stock Exchange.

iShares has launched the first ETF providing liquid exposure to the European high yield debt market.

iShares has released the first ETF providing single-country exposure to New Zealand, listing the fund on NYSE Arca.

Cost is the main consideration for investors when choosing ETFs, with over 60% of current ETF users citing low-cost as a 'very important' factor, according to Morningstar.

Richard Yarlott, partner at Integral Asset Management, talks to Charlotte Moore about the importance of finding the best asset allocation and how ETFs can efficiently serve this purpose

Although it's not the start of a new year, September still seems to herald the beginning of a new season, a busy period after the traditional quiet lull of summer. Except the last few months have been anything but quiet in the land of ETFs. Existing providers...