ETFs

Chinese asset management firms are planning to launch ETFs tracking global fixed income indices for the first time, following an agreement between Barclays Capital and the Shanghai Stock Exchange.

The Royal Bank of Scotland has unveiled a new range of ETFs on the London Stock Exchange, to meet the increasing demand for low-cost, liquid and diversified market exposure.

The average daily number of ETF and ETC trades on the London Stock Exchange has risen by 45% year-on-year to reach 16,420.

CommerzBank has unveiled four ComStage ETFs providing exposure to equities and bonds, on the Deutsche Boerse's XTF segment.

With news that iShares is due to launch swap-based ETFs "imminently" and with other providers hinting they too will start to offer synthetically replicated funds in the near future, it seems the industry as a whole is now more broadly willing to embrace...

Gary Mairs, chairman of the investment committee at TCF Investment, talks to Charlotte Moore about how the use of ETFs supports the firm's low-cost investment philosophy

Hartmut Graf, CEO of Stoxx, talks to Emma Dunkley about the importance of index transparency and the need for innovation to access new asset classes

More ETF providers are embracing synthetic replication, with the multi-swap counterparty model hailed as the next stage in product evolution. But to what extent does this already exist? Helen Fowler reports

The pickup in the global economy has enabled the natural resources sector to achieve strong gains, as Nick Sudbury reports

Bradley Kay at Morningstar discusses liquidity issues in the European ETF markets and how greater on-exchange trading will lower costs