Indexes
Russell Indexes discusses the indexing needs of the sell side
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Index licensing fees: heading for a fall?
Fee fighters
ETF indexes face clean up
Let there be light
Not all ETF returns are equal
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Energy should be exempt from benchmark rules, argues EC official
Benchmark indexes in energy markets are already well regulated and do not need further oversight, argues EC director-general for energy
Proprietary indexes under scrutiny as banks keep their insights secret
Indexing in the dark
Absolute Volatility Arbitrage Plus: Amundi Asset Management
13th Annual European Single Manager Awards 2013
Uneconomic trading, market manipulation and baseball
Regulators, including the US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, are aggressively targeting uneconomic trading in a crackdown on potential market manipulation. Such moves have striking parallels in the history of baseball - some of which might prove…
Prop index growth sparks legal fears
Frying pan to fire?
Iosco offers general and specific principles to deal with equity and benchmark indexes
Iosco has confronted the 'one size fits all' debate in its draft Principles on Financial Benchmarks, the responses for which are due today (May 16)
Index innovation of the year: Barclays
Index innovation of the year: Barclays
Smart beta strategies: too clever by half?
The rise of smart beta
IndexIQ carves out hedge fund replication niche
Replicating success
Catley Lakeman – ‘keeping the banks honest’
Catley Lakeman acts as a go-between for banks and asset management companies looking to buy their structured products. Vita Millers talks to founding partner Russell Catley
Tankard natural gas indexes greeted with scepticism
Traders show little enthusiasm for Tankard indexes of European natural gas, despite ongoing concerns about the reliability of assessments by price reporting agencies. Gillian Carr reports
Trade of the month: Emerging markets underlyings
Trade of the month: Emerging markets underlyings
Index providers look to apply minimum volatility success story to other asset classes
Minimum volatility strategies have been a huge hit in the equity space. Index providers are now planning to apply them to fixed income and commodities
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Retrospective analysis: Natwest's Asian index basket relies on minimum return feature
Thankful for the minimum