ETFs

ETF Securities (ETFS) has issued additional shares for its platinum and palladium exchange-traded products listed on NYSE Arca.

ETFs listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange and Scoach Switzerland recorded the largest turnover and trading volume gains in May, surging to CHF8.6bn (€6.08bn) and 79,758 respectively.

Economic uncertainty and sovereign risk in western markets has boosted flows into gold exchange-traded products, according to the World Gold Council (WGC).

iShares has launched an ETF providing exposure to the Polish stock markets on NYSE Arca in the US.

Exchange-traded product provider Source has seen total assets in its exchange-traded commodities (ETC) range surpass the €500m mark in the year since launch.

Credit Suisse has released its S&P 500 ETF on the Xetra exchange in Germany, with an expense ratio of 0.28% per annum.

Dow Jones Indexes has licensed five new indices to Bank of Montreal (BMO) Financial Group to underlie ETFs listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange.

The derivatives exchange Eurex will list seven options contracts on June 1, based on a range of Source ETFs.

The last few weeks have been unique in the European ETF market. It is rare that product issuers will all launch funds on the same index around the same time. But on 17 May, an exclusive 10 year agreement between Standard & Poor's and iShares came to an...

Caroline Shaw, manager of the Total Return Growth Fund at Courtiers, talks to Nick Sudbury about using ETFs for fixed income exposure and the factors influencing fund selection