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Unleashing The Potential Of Africa’s Youth - Dr Susan Mboya-Kidero, President Of The Coca-Cola Africa Foundation

Date 08/06/2015

Empowering Africa’s youth is one of the most serious challenges facing the African continent today. Although many African countries are experiencing an economic boom, youth empowerment in Africa is at a crisis stage.  While we have made great strides in providing access to education, we have not matched this with providing equal access to employment.  African youth are attaining higher education levels than ever before, and with increasing access to internet and mobile connectivity, they are more exposed to Western ideals and aspirations than in previous generations. 

BlackRock ETP Landscape: Durable Non-U.S. Equity Demand

Date 08/06/2015

The BlackRock ETP Landscape series of reports Industry Highlights provides commentary on the global Exchange Traded Product (ETP) industry as of May 2015. 

European Commission - Conference: Next Steps To Build A Capital Markets Union - Jonathan Hill, EU Commissioner For Financial Services, Financial Stability And Capital Markets Union

Date 08/06/2015

Good morning ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to our conference on the Capital Markets Union. It is good to see so many of you here. It shows how much interest there is in the project, which President Juncker has established as one of the Commission's top priorities.

TheCityUK: UK Global Leader For Sovereign Wealth Fund Investment

Date 08/06/2015

TheCityUK’s Sovereign Wealth Funds 2015 report, released today, reveals that SWFs have increased their presence in the UK, making it the global leader for direct SWF investments as well as the leading Western centre for the management of SWFs. While the UK and US each accounted for around 16% of the $800 billion invested by SWFs since 2007, in relation to the size of its economy, the UK attracted over five times more investment than the US.

Industrial And Commercial Bank Of China (ICBC) Rings Market Bell To Celebrate Listing Of A 500 Million Dollar Bond On Nasdaq Dubai

Date 08/06/2015

• Listing by world’s largest bank underlines Dubai’s successful growth as a global financial centre
• Bond supports expansion of ICBC’s activities in Middle East and beyond

STOXX Launches True Exposure Index Family To Help Investors Achieve Efficient Strategic Asset Allocation

Date 08/06/2015

STOXX Limited, a leading provider of innovative, tradable and global index concepts, today announced the launch of the STOXX True Exposure index family, in short STOXX TRU. The indices allow investments in predefined countries or regions by selecting companies that have a dominant economic exposure to the targeted area. By enabling investors to sharpen portfolio exposure to selected regions, these indices allow for improved asset allocation that significantly de-risks portfolios with the same regional allocations.

Xetra/Börse Frankfurt: Two Source Equity Index ETFs Launched On Xetra - ETFs Track Export-Oriented Companies From The Eurozone And Japan

Date 08/06/2015

Two new equity index funds from the ETF offering issued by Source have been tradable on Xetra and Börse Frankfurt since Monday. Both ETFs track the performance of companies that generate a large part of their revenue abroad. 

520 European ETFs Rated On Trackinsight

Date 08/06/2015

Koris International, an innovative investment advisory firm, announces today the launch of the TrackInsightTM ratings of the 520 most significant European ETFs. These ratings are available for professional investors on www.trackinsight.com, an ETF comparison and selection platform.

Andy Murray Teams Up With Leading Equity Crowdfunding Platform Seedrs - Investing In startups Through Crowdfunding In A Unique First For A Public Figure

Date 08/06/2015

Tennis champion Andy Murray announced today that he has entered a long-term partnership arrangement with Seedrs, the London-based equity crowdfunding platform.

Better Finance: An Early Blow To The CMU Initiative? - EU Parliament About To Blatantly Ignore The Rights Of European Individual Shareholders

Date 08/06/2015

The new EU Shareholders Rights’ Directive, as amended by the Parliament’s JURI committee, is to be put to plenary vote on June 10. As it stands the proposal grossly, ignores all the modest amendments repeatedly proposed for months by European individual shareholder representatives to lower the barriers to shareholder engagement within the EU, and thus to promote long term investment and better corporate governance.