Amundi, one of Europe’s largest providers of exchange-traded funds, has announced the launch an ETF on NYSE Euronext Paris providing investors with exposure to shorter maturity government bonds of Eurozone countries with the lowest quality investment grade ratings. Valérie Baudson, Global Head of ETF and Indexing at Amundi, commented: “This latest launch is in line with our wish to offer investors a range of quality and competitively-priced products, enabling them to allocate assets according to their market expectations.”

Markit, a leading provider of fixed income indices, has announced the launch of the Markit iBoxx US Non-Agency RMBS Indices, a family of cash bond indices based on a portfolio of US non-agency Residential Mortgage-Backed Securities (RMBS). The new indices provide market participants with a means to assess the returns of the US non-agency RMBS market and are well suited for use a fund benchmarks and underlyings for index-linked products such as exchange-traded funds (ETFs).

Lyxor, a leading European provider of exchange-traded funds (ETFs), has launched the Lyxor ETF MTS Spain Government Bond All-Maturity (ES10), a new ETF providing low-cost exposure to Spanish government debt. The fund has been listed on the NYSE Euronext and is linked to the MTS Spain Government Bond Index, an index composed of government bonds of varying maturities issued by the sovereign government of Spain.