“Deutsche Börse welcomes ABN Amro as a fund sponsor and Designated Sponsor in the XTF segment. We look forward to working with ABN Amro to enhance the diversity and coverage of Deutsche Börse’s XTF segment” said Rainer Riess, Managing Director at Deutsche Börse. ABN Amro is fund sponsor of the Market Access Jim Rogers International Commodity Index Fund (ISIN: LU0249326488). This is a broadly diversified commodity index reflecting costs of day-to-day life, originally developed by Wall Street legend Jim Rogers.
Lyxor International Asset Management, a Société Générale subsidiary, today issued six new ETFs in the XTF segment. This includes a range of fixed income ETFs based on EuroMTS bonds. Four separate ETFs cover the EuroMTS 1-3 year maturity band (ISIN: FR0010222224), 3-5 year maturity band (ISIN: FR0010037234), 10-15 year maturity band (ISIN: FR0010037242) and global index (ISIN: FR0010028860). These provide exposure to the Eurozone’s most widely traded outstanding sovereign debt securities. Additionally the EuroMTS Inflation Linked ETF (ISIN: FR0010174292) measures the performance of the Eurozone’s inflation linked sovereign debt. Coverage of developed market equity performance across 16 European countries is provided by the MSCI Europe ETF (ISIN: FR0010261198).
In the first quarter of 2006, XTF generated with €16.6 billion the highest quarterly turnover ever since the segment’s introduction. This represents an increase of 50 percent year-on-year (Q1 2005: €11.0 bn). A total of 125 index funds are now listed in the segment, with 46 new products added since the beginning of 2006. Assets under management increased by 78 percent to a record level of €32.3 billion (Q1 2005:18.2 bn). Deutsche Börse’s XTF segment is the leading platform in Europe, with approx. 50 percent of European trading in exchange-traded funds and the largest listed ETF offering of any European exchange.
