Tag: Solactive

FlexTrade adds Paul Beatty to team
October 09, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Deutsche Bank's Svend Gerhards joins Solactive as Head Of Compliance

Solactive has just announced the appointment of Svend Gerhards as Head of Compliance who started on the 4th of October. In this new role, Gerhards, formerly Vice President at Deutsche Bank, will assume responsibility for Solactive’s compliance function. Christian Vollmuth, Chief Risk Officer at Solactive AG, commented: The European Benchmarks Regulation introduces a sweeping regime…

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Solactive launches the Solactive Mobile Payment NTR Index
August 30, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Solactive launches the Solactive Mobile Payment NTR Index

Solactive has announced the launch of the Solactive Mobile Payment NTR Index. The index is tracking the performance of companies that are active in the areas of electronic and mobile payments processing. The index is equal weighted and includes the 20 stocks with the highest market capitalization in the corresponding areas. Mobile payment solutions are…

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First Republic Bank joins S&P 500 index, replaces Scana Corporation
August 29, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Solactive launches the Adaptive Wealth Strategies U.S. Factor Index

Solactive has announced the launch of the Adaptive Wealth Strategies U.S. Factor Index which dynamically allocates across three sub-indices with exposure to U.S. equities in the large and mid-cap segment and exhibits characteristics of one of three primary factors: value, momentum and low volatility. The index has been developed together with Adaptive Wealth Strategies, a…

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First Republic Bank joins S&P 500 index, replaces Scana Corporation
August 14, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Solactive launches Solactive Industry 4.0 Index

Solactive has just announced the launch of the Solactive Industry 4.0 Index, an index tracking the performance of companies that are operating in any of the following segments: Advanced Robotics, Augmented Reality & 3D Printing, Cloud & Big Data, Cyber Security and Internet of Things (IoT) (together the “Index Categories”). From each of the five…

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First Republic Bank joins S&P 500 index, replaces Scana Corporation
July 05, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Solactive launches Climate and Energy Transition Index

Solactive has just informed the public of the launch of the Climate and Energy Transition Index, an index tracking the performance of companies that show the best commitment to energy transition in their sectors while exhibiting low volatility and high dividend yield characteristics. The index is based on a methodology developed by Natixis in collaboration…

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June 18, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Solactive launches a new suite of equity and fixed-income ESG indices

Solactive has announced that it has released the Solactive L&G ESG Index Family targeted at investors who wish to go further in integrating ESG factors into their investment strategy. This launch is the result of collaboration between Solactive and Legal & General Investment Management (LGIM), which combines LGIM’s proprietary Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) scoring…

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June 07, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Solactive launches Australian Investment Grade Corporate Bond

Solactive has just announced the launch of the Solactive Australian Investment Grade Corporate Bond Select TR Index used as the basis for BetaShares Australian Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF (CRED). The index seeks to replicate the performance of a portfolio of investment grade, senior corporate bonds denominated in Australian dollars (AUD). The index methodology will…

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May 04, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Solactive launches new equity benchmark covering Australia

Solactive has just announced the release of the Solactive Australia 200 Index, a new benchmark tracking the performance of the 200 largest companies by market capitalization listed on the Australian Securities Exchange. With this new launch, Solactive expands its range of competitively-priced benchmarks and offers for the first time a broad-market index providing targeted exposure…

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The hidden index turnover costs: Solactive research
March 28, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

The hidden index turnover costs: Solactive research

Solactive AG has just published a new research paper analyzing the additional cost paid by investors in order to passively track a benchmark. The selection of an index as a benchmark has been tied to the cheap cost to reference it; however, in this research paper, Solactive AG quantifies the additional turnover costs that investors…

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