{"id":12572,"date":"2010-09-16T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-16T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/starthostunlimiteddmffassi-ss.stackstaging.com\/etfworld.co.uk\/index.php\/2010\/09\/16\/etf-securities-short-and-leveraged-etcs-exceed-1-bn-in-aum\/"},"modified":"2010-09-16T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-09-16T07:00:00","slug":"etf-securities-short-and-leveraged-etcs-exceed-1-bn-in-aum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.etfworld.com\/nl\/etf-securities-short-and-leveraged-etcs-exceed-1-bn-in-aum\/","title":{"rendered":"ETF Securities&#8217; Short and Leveraged ETCs Exceed $1 bn in AUM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">ETF Securities&#8217; short and leveraged exchange-traded commodities (ETCs)  have exceeded $1 billion in assets under management (AUM) as of 1st  September 2010; this is an increase of 26% since the start of the year  and an increase of 70% year-on-year <sup>1<\/sup>..<span class=\"heading\">&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<ul> <\/ul>\n<ul> <\/ul>\n<p><span lang=\"fr-FR\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<hr \/>\n<p> Sign up for our weekly Newsletter and receive the latest ETF and ETC      news. <a href=\"index.php?option=com_acymailing&#038;view=user&#038;Itemid=1016\"><strong>Click      here to register for your free copy     <\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p> <\/strong><\/a>ETFS Leveraged Natural Gas and ETFS Leveraged Crude Oil have the highest  AUM, curerently representing 27% and 19% respectively of the total AUM  in ETF Securities&#8217; short and leveraged ETCs. This is followed by ETFS  Short Crude Oil and ETFS Short Copper which currently represent 10% and  7% respectively. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Commenting, Nik Bienkowski, Managing Partner of ETF Securities Marketing LLP, said:<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Overall, investors are appearing bullish as leveraged ETCs  outnumber short ETCs, making up 70% of our short and leveraged AUM.   This is in contrast to the same time last year, where our leveraged and  short ETCs were more evenly split.  <\/p>\n<p>ETF Securities&#8217; Short Oil (SOIL) was the most liquid ETC on the  London Stock Exchange in 2008 around the time oil hit a high of $147\/bl,  which resulted in weekly trading of up to $600m <sup>2<\/sup>. <\/p>\n<p>Passing the $1bn AUM mark for ETF Securities&#8217; short and  leveraged ETCs is a significant milestone for us. ETF Securities&#8217; ETC  platform is the most liquid in Europe and with the maturing of ETCs,  investors have looked to our ETF Securities&#8217; range of ETCs to develop  and execute a variety of trading strategies using long, leveraged, short  and forward ETCs.&#8221;<\/em> <\/p>\n<p>Short ETCs earn minus one times (-1x) the daily change in the  index (before fees and interest). For example, if the underlying index  falls by 2% in a day, a short ETC will increase by 2%: conversely a  short ETC will decrease by 2% if the index increases by 2%. Until now,  it has been difficult for investors to benefit from falling prices as to  go short, investors would have had to borrow ETCs and then sell those  ETCs in the market &#8211; both of which were difficult and relatively  expensive . Additionally, shorting exposed investors to unlimited  losses. Our short ETCs limit the maximum loss to the investors&#8217; initial  investment. <\/p>\n<p>Leveraged ETCs allow investors to earn a positive return when  the index is rising with 50% less capital. Leveraged ETCs earn two times  (+2x) the daily change in the index (before fees and interest). For  example, if the underlying index rises by 2% in a day, a Leveraged ETC  will increase by 4%: conversely a leveraged ETC will decrease by 4% if  the index decreases by 2%. In today&#8217;s market where it is increasingly  difficult to obtain credit and margin, Our leveraged ETCs free up  additional capital for investor&#8217;s to gain additional portfolio  diversification.  <\/p>\n<div class=\"productNav\"><sup>1<\/sup> Based on data from ETF Securities. Further information available on notes to editor no. 2     <br \/><sup>2<\/sup> ETF Securities and Bloomberg data     <br \/><sup>3<\/sup> Taking into account brokerage fees, etc.<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Source: ETFWorld &#8211; ETFSecurities<\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,monospace;\"><span lang=\"fr-FR\"> <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ETF Securities&#8217; short and leveraged exchange-traded commodities (ETCs) have exceeded $1 billion in assets under management (AUM) as of 1st September 2010; this is an increase of 26% since the start of the year and an increase of 70% year-on-year 1..&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16732,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"telegram_tosend":false,"telegram_tosend_message":"","telegram_tosend_target":0,"footnotes":"","_wpscp_schedule_draft_date":"","_wpscp_schedule_republish_date":"","_wpscppro_advance_schedule":false,"_wpscppro_advance_schedule_date":"","_wpscppro_dont_share_socialmedia":false,"_wpscppro_custom_social_share_image":0,"_facebook_share_type":"","_twitter_share_type":"","_linkedin_share_type":"","_pinterest_share_type":"","_linkedin_share_type_page":"","_instagram_share_type":"","_medium_share_type":"","_threads_share_type":"","_google_business_share_type":"","_selected_social_profile":[],"_wpsp_enable_custom_social_template":false,"_wpsp_social_scheduling":{"enabled":false,"datetime":null,"platforms":[],"status":"template_only","dateOption":"today","timeOption":"now","customDays":"","customHours":"","customDate":"","customTime":"","schedulingType":"absolute"},"_wpsp_active_default_template":true},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-etc-etc"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":6}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etfworld.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etfworld.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etfworld.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etfworld.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etfworld.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.etfworld.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etfworld.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etfworld.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etfworld.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etfworld.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}