ETFs

UBS is formally reducing securities lending on its ETF funds to 50%, following in the footsteps of ETF giant iShares.

ETF provider Invesco PowerShares has appointed Bryon Lake as head of EMEA for the business.

iShares has cut the total expense ratio (TER) on the accumulation share class of its S&P 500 ETF to 7bps in a further bid to undercut competitors.

Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management has become the latest ETF provider to enter the price war raging across the sector, creating a range of low cost db X-trackers with an all-in annual fee of 9bps.

Source has listed a physically replicated Chinese A-Share ETF on the London Stock Exchange, following in the footsteps of Deutsche Bank.

Stamp duty on Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) is to be abolished from April 2014 in a bid to encourage more firms to domicile products in the UK.

Lyxor Asset Management's director Ben Thompson explains the group's plans to gobble up market share in the exchange traded funds (ETF) market.

Vanguard has moved to reduce prices on its emerging market and global bond trackers as price competition in the passive space heats up.

BlackRock has appointed Rachel Lord from Citigroup as new head of iShares in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) to replace Joe Linhares as he returns to the US.

UBS Exchange Traded Funds has listed 14 ETFs on five UK platforms in a move to make its products more accessible to IFAs and retail investors, following a recent fee cut.