ETF

The rapid expansion of the ETP industry has opened access to commodities, allowing more investors to tap the asset class, ETF Securities says.

The way in which an ETF is constructed can help determine its potential investor base, according to State Street Global Advisors (SSgA).

Assets in ETFs and ETPs are expected to reach $2trn worldwide by early 2012, according to BlackRock analysts.

Source has launched its Man GLG Europe Plus Source ETF, an actively managed strategy investing in European stocks recommended by a pool of leading brokers.

Standard & Poor's saw 95 ETFs launched on its stock market indices in 2010, the biggest annual total in the index provider's history.

David Norman, joint founder & CEO of TCF Investment, explains what you need to know about index tracking funds.

The FSA has warned leveraged ETFs could be classed as 'generally unsuitable' for the mainstream retail market, along with complicated structured products and trade life policy investments.

The FSA has earmarked Keydata-style traded life policies as a product "generally unsuitable for the mainstream retail market".

The first two fixed income ETFs from the Pimco Source partnership have been launched on the Deutsche Boerse's Xetra platform.

Db x-trackers has listed its db Equity Strategies Hedge Fund Index ETF, tracking the performance of 17 long-short and neutral equity hedge funds.