Van Eck takes over Market Vectors® Indices from 4asset-management

30/11/2011 21:41
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We are happy that we can announce that our former licensee, Van Eck, will take over the index family of the Market Vectors® from 4asset-management.

The new Frankfurt-based subsidiary of Van Eck, the Market Vectors Index Solutions GmbH (MVIS) will develop, market and license the Market Vectors Indices, which currently underlie many of Van Eck Global’s exchange-traded funds.

The take over is effective as of November 30, 2011. 4asset-management is moving all related activities like index maintenance, support and the website to the new venture.

We are looking back on building an index business over three years: Yesterday more than 3,6 bn. USD were benchmarked against the 13 indices we were providing for the Market vectors®. Business development is one of our core competencies.

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New White Paper on what Exchange Traded Funds mean for smaller exchange organisations

17/11/2011 11:31
Exchange Traded Funds are on a worldwide discovery tour. Many exchange organisations have introduced ETF trading. Launching ETFs in a smaller market can pay well for an exchange organisation: it can create new trading activity, new relationships between the exchange and market participants, and it can attract a lot of public interest inside and outside the market. Read more in a new White Paper prepared by 4asset-management.

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ETF bashing continues - investors ignore media phenomenon

22/09/2011 10:08
Yesterday at the IMN conference I was asking the audience if they have heard of the rogue trading incident at UBS. All hands went up. The audience was consisting mainly of investment professionals.


Next question was if the audience thinks that ETFs have been used for this transactions: Not one participant raised his or her hand!


At the same time media kept bashing ETFs and reported that the 2.3 Bn. USD loss at UBS’s delta-one-desk was caused by the misuse of ETFs even after UBS had released a statement that they were not.

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IMN European Cup of ETFs and Investment Management Chair

19/09/2011 08:00
Today we chair the European Cup of ETFs and Investment Management organised by IMN. The agenda includes a keynote by Britain’s most heard economist, Roger Bootle.

We also moderate a panel featuring a look on the European ETF landscape.


The agenda can be found here.

Indexing Inflation

15/09/2011 10:00
In the lastest issue the Journal of Indexes Europe brings four different approaches to you how to hedge inflation with intelligent index strategies (we read them all!).

Jan Altmann from 4asset-management is member of the editorial board of the Journal of Indexes.



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