From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ETF Securities
ETF Securities
ETF Securities
Type Private, Employee owned In 2010, ETF Securities:
• Listed the first US physically backed Platinum and
Industry Investment management
Palladium exchange traded funds listed on the NYSE
Number of Jersey, London, United Kingdom, Tokyo, Arca, the listings of PPLT and PALL complements the
locations Japan, New-York, USA exsiting Gold (SGOL) and Silver (SIVR) ETF listings.
Products Exchange-traded funds, Commodities, FX Combined they form the 1st physically backed
precious metals platform in the US market
Total assets US$27.5bn (31/03/2011) • Listed 10 Euro-based Currency ETCs, providing long
Employees 80+ (2011) or short exposure to the EUR versus G-10 Currencies
including (CHF, GBP, JPY, NOK, and SEK)
Website www.etfsecurities.com
• Listed 14 commodity ETCs on the Tokyo Stock
Exchange
ETF Securities is a global company based in London, UK,
• Listed Europe’s first Currency ETCs on the Chinese
specialising in managing exchange-traded funds (ETFs),
Renminbi and Indian Rupee on the London Stock
Exchange Traded Commodities (Commodity ETCs) and
Exchange.
Exchange Traded Currencies (Currency ETCs)
• Listed 16 Triple Long and Triple Short Currency ETCs
on the London Stock Exchange.
History • Listed world’s first physical industrial metal ETC
platform.
ETF Securities is a provider of Exchange Traded Products
(ETFs, Commodity ETCs and Currency ETCs). The man-
ETPs are simple to access as they are traded in up to
agement of ETF Securities pioneered the development of
five currencies (EUR, USD, GBP, JPY and AUD) and listed
ETCs, with the world’s first listing of an ETC, Gold Bullion
on up to nine major exchanges globally including the
Securities in Australia and London in 2003 and then the
London Stock Exchange, the New York Stock Exchange,
world’s first entire ETC platform which was listed on the
the Tokyo Stock Exchange, NYSE-Euronext Paris, NYSE-
London Stock Exchange in September 2006.
Euronext Amsterdam, Deutsche Börse, Borsa Italiana, the
ETF Securities now offers more than 250 Exchange
Australian Securities Exchange and the Irish Stock Ex-
Traded Products (ETPs). The ETPs provide investors with
change.
a wide variety of investment strategies, with ETPs offer-
Additional ways investors can gain exposure to the
ing access to asset classes such as equities, currencies
market is through short, long, leveraged and forward
and commodities with physical, long, forward, leveraged
ETCs.
and/or short exposure.
In 2009, ETF Securities: Exchange Traded Commodities
• Announced the world’s largest FX platform tracking
the MSFXSM Index (Commodity ETCs)
• Added 5 new ETCs covering Forward Crude Oil, The ETCs offered by ETF Securities and its partners in-
Cocoa, Lead, Tin and Platinum to complete its clude: 146 ETCs covering most energy, precious metals,
platform of long, short and leveraged Commodity industrial metals, agricultural. Baskets of commodities
ETCs are offered as well as individual commodities physically
• Launched world’s first precious metal physical backed or tracked. Below are a few examples of ETCs of-
commodity ETF platform in Japan fered. For a full listing of ETF Securities products see [1].
• Launched two physical backed Silver (SIVR) and Gold 1. ETFS Metal Securities Ltd and Gold Bullion Secu-
(SGOL) ETCs in USA rities are issuing Physically Backed ETCs. They are de-
• Added Europe’s first complete platform of double signed to offer investors a simple, cost-efficient and se-
leveraged (2x) and double short (-2x) ETFs tracking cure way to access the precious metals market ETFS
Europe’s main equity indices Physically backed ETCs provide access to the following
• Listed world’s largest Exchange Traded Currency precious metals: Gold, Silver, Platinum, Palladium, and
platform Precious Metals Basket
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2. ETCs issued by ETFS Oil Securities Ltd. (OSL) are de- tional. They are participants on the platform, acting as
signed to offer investors exposure to: Approved Participants and Swap Providers.
• Oil prices through different maturities and oil
futures contracts
• Carbon emissions prices
Exchange Traded Currencies
3. ETCs issued by ETFS Commodity Securities Ltd. (CSL) (Currency ETCs)
provide investors with a wide variety of investment
ETF Securities launched the world’s largest and Europe’s
strategies and offer long, forward, leveraged and short
first Exchange Traded Currency (Currency ETCs) plat-
exposure to all commodity sectors including Energy, Pre-
form in November 2009, with the 12th November 2009
cious & Industrial Metals, Agriculture and Livestock.
marking the first day FX could be traded on the London
4. ETCS Industrial Metal Securities Ltd offer investors
Stock Exchange (LSE).
exposure to physically backed Industrial Metals: Alu-
Currency ETCs enable investors to gain exposure to
minium, Lead, Copper, Tin, Zinc, Nickel, and Industrial
foreign exchange movements through a listed security.
Metal basket
Currency ETCs track currency indices which aim to re-
flect movements in exchange rates between two curren-
Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) cies, plus exposure to local interest rates. ETFS-branded
in September 2008, ETF Securities launched ETF Ex- currency ETCs are secured, undated, zero coupon notes
change, a unique ETF platform. Enhanced by a consor- that are designed to accurately track the underlying cur-
tium of leading global investment banks, ETF Exchange is rency index. In 2010, ETF Securities expands its Currency
dedicated to providing access to premium, cost-effective ETCs platform with the listing of 16 Triple Long and
and flexible investment solutions. Triple Short Currency ETCs on the London Stock Ex-
In recent years, it has become increasingly important change. These products aim to reflect three times the
to consider investment ideas that are different from tra- daily percentage change between two currencies.
ditional strategies and asset classes. ETF Exchange aims The Currency ETC platform is now listed on the Lon-
to provide investors with access to a range of innovative don Stock Exchange, Borsa Italiana and Xetra (Deutsche
investment solutions that may be used to diversify port- Boerse) offering investors: - 58 Delta-1 Currency ETCs: 31
folio composition or improve risk/return profiles. From Long and 31 Short, USD, EUR and GBP based, exposure
thematic strategies like agribusiness and alternative en- to G-10 currency pairs and 2 emerging market currencies
ergy to daily leveraged equity strategies based on key (CNY and INR)versus the USD - 28 Triple Currency Long
European benchmarks, investors can choose from a va- and Triple Short ETCs: 14 Triple Long and 14 Triple Short,
riety of approaches when building investment pro- USD, EUR and GBP based
grammes. Strategies that employ leverage carry addi-
tional risk and are only suitable for sophisticated in- See also
vestors with suffi cient resource, knowledge and exper-
• Gold exchange-traded fund
tise to understand and manage their positions appropri-
• Silver exchange-traded fund
ately.
• Gold as an investment
All ETF Exchange funds employ total return swaps
• Silver as an investment
in order to replicate index performance. Often referred
• Platinum as an investment
to as ‘synthetic replication’, this method can be more
• Palladium as an investment
effi cient and cost-effective than conventional approach-
• Exchange-traded fund
es since the fund’s counterparties are responsible for de-
livering index returns.
The ETF platform is now available on 5 European ex- References
changes including the London Stock Exchange, Deutsche
Borse, Borsa Italiana, NYSE Euronext and the ISE.
ETF Exchange is working with Citi, Bank Of America External links
Merrill Lynch, Barclays Capital and Rabobank Interna- • ETF Securities
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