ETFs

Industry experts are urging investors to consider the tax status of ETFs as part of their due diligence, rather than blowing tax treatment "out of proportion."

HSBC has launched an ETF tracking the Brazilian stock market.

Deutsche Bank has listed a range of 10 new ETCs on the London Stock Exchange, using gold or precious metals as collateral.

Head of iShares International Rory Tobin has left the firm and Mike Latham has been appointed global head of iShares.

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