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DB Eyes Further Frontier Market Themed ETFs

Nov 24, 2011 - Daniel O'Leary

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Deutsche Bank is looking at issuing more synthetic exchange-traded funds using frontier equity markets in 2012 to further grow its ETF business after recent success in the area.

It comes after the firm recently launched two frontier market ETFs at the start of the month on the Singapore Exchange. The MSCI Pakistan IM and the MSCI Bangladesh IM were the world’s first synthetic ETFs using indexes based on those countries’ equity markets.

Marco Montanari, head of db X-trackers ETFs and db-X funds, Asia global markets at Deutsche Bank in Hong Kong, declined to single out which frontier Asian markets the firm will target in 2012. He pointed to a previous Indonesian ETF, launched over 12 months ago, as an example of the firm's recent success....

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