Category Archives for ETF
DB x-trackers US Dollar Money Market ETF
db x-trackers, Deutsche Bank’s Exchange Traded Funds business, has recently launched Asia’s first money market ETF, with the listing of the US Dollar Money Market ETF in both Singapore and Hong Kong. The DB x-trackers US Dollar Money Market ETF tracks the Fed Funds Effective Rate Total Return Index, which reflects a daily rolled deposit earning Fed […]
Be Careful of Leveraged and Inverse ETFs
Leveraged and inverse ETFs have in recent months come to the attention of US Regulators regarding their suitability as long term investments for retail investors. Just to recap, leveraged ETFs aim to double or triple the performance of an underlying benchmark, while inverse ETFs move in the opposite direction to their benchmark. In theory, that […]
Delisting of Lyxor ETF MSCI Thailand
I just saw an announcement by Lyxor that the Lyxor Thailand ETF will be delisted from SGX on 14th August 2009. There msut be an earlier announcement on this but I missed that. CDP will credit the respective accounts of the remaining Singapore investors that were still holding the units of the ETF with the […]
Deutsche Bank Launches Another Four ETFs
Four ETFs from Deutsche Bank (DB) based on the following indices will start trading on SGX from 15 July 2009. Their annual fee is shown beside the name. DJ Euro STOXX 50, 0% MSCI AC Asia ex Japan TRN, 0.65% MSCI Korea TRN, 0.65% MSCI Europe TRN Index, 0.3% The counters will be quoted in […]
New Lyxor ETFs to Cover Regions Outside Asia
Lyxor International Asset Management will list five new ETFs on SGX on 12 May 2009. The new ETFs are: Lyxor ETF Eastern Europe Lyxor ETF MSCI Emerging Markets Lyxor ETF MSCI EM Latin America Lyxor ETF MSCI World Lyxor ET Nasdaq-100 Lyxor ETF Eastern Europe tracks the preformance of CECE EUR Index published by Vienna […]