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...The US asset manager is to delist the SPDR MSCI EM Asia Ucits ETF (EMAE) from Euronext Paris and delist the SPDR MSCI Japan EUR Hdg Ucits ETF from the London Stock Exchange, both with effect from May 10,...
...ETF (WTAI) and L&G Artificial Intelligence Ucits ETF (AIAI)....
...Jupiter said the fund was stopped from holding the investment as Ireland’s regulator prohibits exposure to crypto in Ucits funds....
...Connecticut-based AQR had seen its managed futures full volatility strategy return 17.4 per cent to the end of March, while Paris-based Capital Fund Management’s IS Trends fund was up 17.5 per cent to Wednesday...
...Unhedged: We’ve been interested in reading about the rise of multi-strategy hedge funds, or “pod shops”....
...Esma found that active ESG Ucits funds outperformed non-ESG active funds during the first 10 weeks of the Covid-19 outbreak when much of the world rushed into lockdown....
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...Equity High Income Ucits ETFs, which have been listed in Frankfurt and Amsterdam, are the US fund giant’s first ETFs aimed at investors in Europe that integrate an active, systematic strategy into the ETF...
...She said many would be targeting investors in Asia and Latin America where the European Ucits fund designation is often seen as better wrapper than its US equivalents....
...Cap Equity UCITs ETF (BBSD) for small caps....
...There are dozens of these funds in the US but at the moment only one in the UK, again from Global X, called the S&P 500 Annual Buffer UCITS ETF (ticker SPAB)....
...State Street Global Advisors’ SPDR S&P 500 Ucits ETF has attracted €2.7bn in net inflows over the three months since its fee was cut to 0.03 per cent in November last year....
...It had to be structured as an alternative investment fund, because the standard Ucits structure adopted by mass-market European ETFs cannot be used to hold cryptocurrencies, for regulatory reasons....
...The funds were launched after the end of the Brexit transition period in December 2020, when it stopped being possible for EU funds to automatically get UK recognition under the Ucits marketing passport...
...BlackRock has launched a suite of Ucits iBond ETFs, giving European investors easy access to fixed-income exchange traded funds that mature on a fixed date, just like their underlying portfolios of bonds...
...State Street Global Advisors is cutting fees on two of its exchange traded funds in Europe to 3 basis points, making them “even more accessible and affordable”....
...The concept has also spread to South Africa, where fund administrator Prescient Fund Services plans to have six ETFs on its platform before the end of the year, with more to follow in 2024....
...It recently launched a fund that tracks the S&P 500 — the Global X S&P 500 Covered Call UCITS ETF (XYLU LN) — and a sister fund which tracks the Nasdaq 100 — The Global X Nasdaq 100 Covered Call UCITS ETF...
...In euro terms, the largest positions are held by BlackRock’s iShares MSCI USA SRI Ucits ETF, at €324mn as of mid-November, the iShares MSCI World SRI Ucits ETF (€208mn), and Eleva European Selection (€171mn...
...Efama also cautioned that remaining on T+2 might be more suitable for cross-border ETFs and Ucits funds “held by non-EU investors in time zones where a shorter settlement cycle would increase errors”....
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...For example, from December 1 2021 to September 27 2022, the iShares Index Linked Gilts Ucits ETF dropped 50 per cent....
...He added that DWS planned to add more funds to its fixed-maturity bond ETF offering over time....
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