ETF / Index

ESMA is concerned "Closet indexing" may harm investors as they are not receiving the service or risk/return profile they expect based on the fund’s disclosure documents while potentially paying higher fees compared to those typically charged for passive management.

Solactive AG in collaboration with South Pole Group has launched a low-carbon equity index family. The low-carbon index family will cover global and regional exposures to carbon, and aside from the liquid benchmark, offer a smart beta version for investors focusing on income generation.

European Smart beta ETF market flows were sustained in 2015 but were still impacted by Q2 trend inflection. NET NEW ASSETS (NNA) for the full year 2015 amounted to EUR4.1bn, close to the EUR4.4 record level of 2014 NNA.

Solactive, one of the growing player in the index space, made a strategic decision to enter the benchmark index business with the launch of benchmark families in the equity as well as the fixed income space...

Gregory Guerrand, a specialist in index investments at THEAM, has agreed to answer a few questions about the Low Carbon 100 Europe Theam Easy UCITS exchange-traded fund (ETF).