{"id":55678,"date":"2016-09-12T01:50:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-11T23:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/innovation\/etf-securities-converts-first-global-robotics-automation-etf-in-europe-to-physically-backed-and-reduces-ter\/"},"modified":"2016-09-12T01:50:00","modified_gmt":"2016-09-11T23:50:00","slug":"etf-securities-converts-first-global-robotics-automation-etf-in-europe-to-physically-backed-and-reduces-ter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/innovation\/etf-securities-converts-first-global-robotics-automation-etf-in-europe-to-physically-backed-and-reduces-ter\/","title":{"rendered":"ETF Securities converts first Global Robotics &#038; Automation ETF in Europe to physically-backed and reduces TER"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>  Move in response to investor appetite for physicallybacked<br \/>\nexposure to robotics and automation sector<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>  TER cut from 95bps to 80bps for first UCITS ETF<br \/>\nproviding exposure to global robotics and automation<br \/>\nsector, reflects investment theme becoming mainstream <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The change also allows ETF Securities to reduce the TER from 95 bps to 80 bps on the<br \/>\nproduct, the first European ETF to provide global exposure to the rapidly evolving global<br \/>\nrobotics and automation sector.<\/p>\n<p>Howie Li, Co-Head of Canvas, ETF Securities comments: \u201c<em>The ROBO Global\u00ae Robotics<br \/>\nand Automation product is now well established, with around USD 80 million (2)<br \/>\nin AUM since<br \/>\nits listing nearly two years ago. By making the product physically backed and cutting the<br \/>\nTER, we are responding to investor demand to make this increasingly important investment<br \/>\ntheme more accessible to a broader range of European investors.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He adds: \u201c<em>We believe the world is in the early stages of a transformational new economic<br \/>\nrevolution, driven by the increasing adoption of sophisticated robotics and automation<br \/>\ntechnologies across all aspects of industry and day-to-day life. ROBO, which we developed<br \/>\nwith ROBO Global\u00ae, a recognised leader in robotics and automation investment solutions,<br \/>\noffers investors a simple, liquid, risk adjusted and cost effective way to gain access to this<br \/>\nautomation and robotics megatrend. The move to physical-replication and cost reduction<br \/>\nshould further enhance investors\u2019 interest and access to this opportunity.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In response to investor demand, ETF Securities, one of the world\u2019s<br \/>\nleading independent providers of specialist Exchange Traded Products, has announced that its ROBO Global\u00ae Robotics and Automation GO UCITS ETF (ROBO), will be physicallybacked (1) from September 16th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":55676,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1471],"tags":[1655,1718,1651,1711,1691,2234,2021,1720],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55678"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55678\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}