Assets in ETFs and ETPs are expected to reach $2trn worldwide by early 2012, according to BlackRock analysts.

Source has launched its Man GLG Europe Plus Source ETF, an actively managed strategy investing in European stocks recommended by a pool of leading brokers.

Standard & Poor's saw 95 ETFs launched on its stock market indices in 2010, the biggest annual total in the index provider's history.

Lyxor Asset Management is celebrating a decade in the ETF industry, having launched its Cac 40 fund on the Paris Stock Exchange in 2001.

The FSA has warned leveraged ETFs could be classed as 'generally unsuitable' for the mainstream retail market, along with complicated structured products and trade life policy investments.

The first two fixed income ETFs from the Pimco Source partnership have been launched on the Deutsche Boerse's Xetra platform.

Db x-trackers has listed its db Equity Strategies Hedge Fund Index ETF, tracking the performance of 17 long-short and neutral equity hedge funds.

iShares has reached its 100th ETF on the London Stock Exchange with the launch of the MSCI Poland ETF.

ETF Securities has seen flows into its All Commodities ETC so far this year outstrip those into any of its other commodity securities.

BlackRock's US iShares arm has filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for an MSCI China Index fund.