S&P

With the expansion of the ETP industry, there has been increased confusion about how each product differs. Trying to pick an ETF among the barrage of products no longer seems as straight-forward. Helen Fowler takes a look at why this confusion has emerged...

There has been a lot of innovation within the Ucits ETF structure and products have developed beyond offering benchmark, equity exposure, into a variety of niche areas. The ETFM Innovation Roundtable asks where there is still room for growth and how the...

ETFM provides a roundup of some of this week's ETF and indexing news.

SPDR ETF, the exchange-traded funds platform of State Street Global Advisors (SSgA), has launched two new ETFs on the London Stock Exchange.

Standard & Poor's has delivered another blow to sentiment across Europe after cutting Spain's long-term credit rating by one notch, from AA to AA-.

Index-based volatility reduction strategies are gaining popularity with ETF providers and investors, according to Standard and Poor's.

The FTSE 100 has fallen a further 2.7% in early trading after the S&P 500 closed under 1,100 for the first time since September 2010.

Standard & Poor's has maintained its AAA long-term credit rating for the UK and said the outlook remains stable, while warning GDP will be lower than forecast for the next three years.

Nick Sudbury looks for safe havens in the government bond sector

Standard and Poor's (S&P) has revealed it has received notice from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) recommending a lawsuit be brought against it over a mortgage-backed security it rated in 2007.