The Royal Bank of Scotland has launched three exchange-traded notes (ETNs) on Xetra in Germany, tracking the performance of MSCI equity indices.
One of the notes tracks the performance of 35 companies in the African ex South Africa frontier markets and has a 1.35% annual management fee. The underlying benchmark is the MSCI EFM Africa ex South Africa, a total return index that reinvests dividends. The ETN tracking the MSCI Bric ADR Top 50 index has a 0.64% management fee and returns the performance of a range of sub-indices. These include the MSCI Brazil ADR, MSCI Russia ADR, MSCI India ADR and MSCI China ADR. These underlying indices provide access to the 50 largest companies, weighted by free-float market capitalisation, from...
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