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China's banks lure man on the street to gold
Singapore, 19 January 2012: Reuters
For Chinese shipping executive Ping Bo buying gold is the best way to protect his family's wealth and give his 10-year-old son a headstart into adulthood. "For my son, the idea is that he will get a nice stash of gold that he can cash out when he turns 21 or when he gets married," said Ping, one of over 2 million people that have opened accounts in the past two years to accumulate gold at the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC).
True risks of Exchange Traded Funds
London, 16 Janaury 2012: Commodities Now
New research at EDHEC-Risk Institute has addressed the question of the true risks of Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs) in Europe in the light of issues raised by financial regulators and international organisations.
Segregation of Customer Funds for Cleared Swaps
London, 11 January 2012
Statement of Support by Chairman Gary Gensler: I support the final rules on segregation of customer funds for cleared swaps. These rules are an important step forward in protecting customers and reducing the risk of swaps trading. The rules carry out the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (Dodd-Frank Act) mandate that futures commission merchants (FCMs) and derivatives clearing organizations (DCOs) segregate customer collateral supporting cleared swaps.
2012 Commodity Index Rebalancing - Will it have any Impact?
London, 21 December 2011
In January 2012 the world's two most followed commodity benchmarks, the DJ-UBS All Commodities Index and the S&P GSCI Index, will go through their annual rebalancing. The impact on investor flows across underlying commodity futures can be quite significant as the 2012 rebalancing has an added twist, with Brent crude oil being added to the Dow Jones-UBS Commodity Index for the first time and WTI oil seeing its weight reduced.
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Commodity index returns reconsidered
London, December 2011: Reuters
Commodity index investors must be starting to wonder if anything will ever go right. Just as roll losses on major products such as the Goldman Sachs Commodity Index (GSCI) have begun to diminish, an increase in predicted oil and gas supplies has blunted expectations of a super-cycle.
Source gold ETP finds eager Europe, Mideast takers
London, 30 November 2011: Reuters
The eurozone crisis has driven investment in gold-backed exchange-traded assets so high that newcomer Source now owns the world's sixth largest physically-backed gold product and sees no need to promote it actively outside Europe and the Middle East.
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Resource equities, commodity prices to regain correlation?
London, 28 November 2011: Reuters
The correlation between commodity prices and the shares of companies that produce them has been weakening since the equity markets started slumping in August as the European debt crisis flared, hurting the global economic outlook.
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MiFID 2: Investment advice in Europe to be redefined
Frankfurt, 4 November 2011
Talking point: 40% of all household wealth in the eurozone is held as financial assets in the form of deposits and investment products – around EUR 19 trillion. A European Commission proposal for a directive (MiFID2) will change this market: in future banks are to inform consumers whether the advice they offer is independent or restricted. If the advice is independent, charging commission is to be banned. The paying of commission is, however, in most member states the standard model of remuneration for the investment advice provided by banks. Irrespective of this practical aspect there is the question of whether the “independent” label will promise the consumer more than the individual advisor is capable of delivering.
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EDHEC study sheds new light on commodity investments
London, Singapore, 25 October 2011
A number of policy-makers have blamed the decade-long rise in commodity prices and recent market volatility on the growing influence of financial investors and called for new regulation restricting their participation in commodity markets. Market financialisation has also led investors to worry about higher integration between commodity and traditional financial markets weakening the portfolio benefits of commodity investment.
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Europe Dow and Asia Dow launched
Hong Kong, 18 October 2011
In the same year in which the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) celebrates its 115th birthday, Dow Jones Indexes today announced the launch of two regional versions of the iconic index, The Europe Dow and The Asia Dow.
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