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Boost and DAB announce Free Trading commissions in Boost’s Exchange Traded Products
Monday 06th July '15
- DAB will allow all its clients to trade Boost’s Non-Commodity Exchange Traded Products (ETPs) for FREE from 1 July 2015 until 30 September 2015
- Boost’s range includes the main commodity, equity, currency, foreign exchange benchmarks including Oil, EuroSTOXX and DAX
Frankfurt, 06 July 2015: WisdomTree Europe, an Exchange Traded Fund (“ETF”) and exchange traded product (“ETP”) sponsor, and specialist in short & leverage (“S&L”) ETPs through the Boost ETP product range, is proud to announce that customers of DAB will be able to trade a range of Boost’s ETP’s for free until 30 September 2015.
Hector McNeil Co-CEO of WisdomTree Europe, commented:
“Both Boost and DAB believe strongly in the growth of the ETP market and believe that education is the key to continuing the spectacular growth of ETPs to all customer groups. Alongside DAB we will provide some of the most comprehensive investor educational tools available. This will involve generic ETF and ETP education and specific education on S&L ETPs.
We hope that DAB customers will embrace this offer and see the advantages of Boost range and add S&L ETPs to their investment tool box.”
Demand for transparent S&L ETPs has increased over the past few years with global S&L ETP assets rising to $63bn*, as many financial markets have trended sideways, resulting in volatile but poor long term returns.
S&L ETPs expand the investment range for investors and allow them to execute a wide variety of strategies including:
- Leverage the daily returns of an investment for the same capital as a non-leveraged trade
- Hedge existing positions in one simple trade
- Use a long or short strategy to take advantage of any short term rises or falls in the market, especially in a sideways trending market
- Use in pairs to trade and take advantage of undervalued assets
- Get short the market efficiently and cheaply without having to arrange and finance complex stock borrowing positions
Investors have been increasing their use of S&L ETPs for a variety of reasons. There is wider product availability, greater product knowledge from improved educational resources and increased demand for hedging tools and leveraged instruments due to current market conditions. There is also a move towards independent, transparent and exchange traded instruments such as ETFs and ETPs. Boost has worked hard to introduce investor education tools in order to help grow the investor base adopting S&L ETPs. The most recent being the ‘Adviser Tool Kit’.
Visit the DAB website for further information on the free trade deal.
* Source: Short and Leverage Global flows Report, 30 June 2015
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About WisdomTree Europe Ltd.
WisdomTree Investments, Inc., through its subsidiaries in the U.S. and Europe, including WisdomTree Europe Ltd. based in London, is an exchange-traded fund (“ETF”) and exchange traded product (“ETP”) sponsor and asset manager. WisdomTree offers products covering equities, fixed income, currencies, commodities and alternative strategies. Through WisdomTree Europe Ltd, it sponsors WisdomTree UCITS ETFs and Boost short and leverage ETPs. WisdomTree currently has approximately $62.3 billion in assets under management globally (as of 02 July 2015). For more information, please visit www.wisdomtree.com.
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Boost ETPs help expand the investment horizons of investors and allow them to execute a wide variety of strategies which include:
- Leverage the daily returns of an investment for the same capital as a non-leveraged trade
- Hedge existing positions in one simple trade
- Use a long or short strategy to take advantage of any short term rises or falls in the market, especially in a sideways trending market
- Pair trading to take advantage of undervalued assets
- Shorting the market efficiently and cheaply without having to arrange and finance complex stock borrowing positions
Similar to exchange traded funds (ETFs), Boost ETPs are liquid, accessible and simple. Boost ETPs can be created and redeemed on a continuous basis by market makers, matching the tremendous liquidity of the underlying markets and can be traded by investors on a regulated exchange in the same way as any equity. Boost ETPs provide accurate and transparent leveraged and short exposure to recognised benchmarks in a single trade. In addition, Boost leveraged and short ETPs require no borrowing of stock or funds to gain the relevant exposure. Boost ETPs are simply priced off transparent indices published by world class index providers.
Boost ETPs are backed by robust risk management where (i) depending on the credit rating of Boost’s counterparties, the mix of sovereign bonds held in the posted collateral will increase, and (ii) no cash or collateral will be delivered by Boost to a counterparty unless Boost has received payment first.
Boost ETP's key features include:
- Independence - Boost is independent from any investment bank, swap provider, market maker, trustee or custodian
- Best of breed – Boost’s investors benefit from efficient products with liquidity, strong counterparty risk management and relatively low costs as well as the wealth of experience provided by Boost’s management and world class service providers
- Transparency – Boost discloses all fees, collateral holdings and details on its website each day
- Innovative and nimble - Boost aims to be a leader in innovation, as evidenced by the ETPs issued, and the product development and market research behind the products
- Focused and specialised - Boost's strategy differs from the existing ETP issuers by not focusing on being everything to everyone
- Educational - Boost focuses on providing all the educational and thought leadership tools needed by investors
Disclaimer
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