Barclays Wealth has launched the 13th issue of its six-year Emerging Markets Optimiser (EMO) structured product, with performance linked to an ETF.

Motilal Oswal Asset Management has filed an offer document with the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) to launch the country's first mid-cap ETF.

Standard & Poor's has released a liquidity weighted index providing exposure to 75 of the eurozone's leading blue chip companies.

Increased use of passive products including ETFs is driving down fixed fees, says Skandia Investment Group (SIG).

Over 70% of investors expect to increase their usage of ETFs for asset allocation purposes, according to an iShares survey.

FSA chief executive Hector Sants has warned against the risks of leveraged ETFs in a comment made before the treasury committee last Tuesday.

iShares and Goldman Sachs have unveiled fixed income and hedge fund replication ETFs on the German Stock Exchange Xetra.

Wealth manager SCM Private has made its model portfolios available on Praemium's Discretionary Platform Service for IFAs.

ETFs are becoming increasingly popular among private investors and are set to grow in this space, Credit Suisse says.

ETFs providing emerging and frontier market exposure have seen net inflows of $30.5bn up to August this year, according to BlackRock.