Scottish Widows has selected BlackRock to manage GBP30 billion of assets in index strategies, following the review by Scottish Widows and Lloyds Banking Group’s Wealth business of their asset management arrangements. »

VanEck Vectors Morningstar US Wide Moat UCITS ETF has celebrated its third anniversary, reporting an annualised performance of 17.5 per cent since launch. »

The Association of National Numbering Agencies (ANNA), the organisation whose members are responsible for assigning ISIN, FISN & CFI codes, has announced a new Benchmarks Task Force designed to aid in understanding and developing the process for obtaining ISINs for referential instruments in particular, indices and reference rates. »

The top team at State Street Global Markets has commented on last night’s (10 October) global market sell-off. »

Institutions are getting more comfortable with ETF liquidity and more sophisticated about measuring it, according to the second annual institutional ETF trading survey by global trading firm and liquidity provider Jane Street. »

Morgane Delledonne, ETF Investment Strategist at BMO Global Asset Management, has written a note explaining why the business is cautiously optimistic on emerging market equities.  »

Funds focused on new technology caught the eye this week with a distributed ledger (blockchain) fund from First Block Capital and funds from HANetf based on Solactive’s Innovative Technologies and Cloud Technology indexes. Elsewhere, Franklin Templeton added three new passive funds to its LibertyShares line-up, while Legg Mason launched its first actively-managed taxable fixed income ETF… »