Casam lists 11 new ETFs as issuance accelerates

Credit Agricole Structured Asset Management (Casam) has listed 11 new exchange-traded funds (ETFs) covering different sectors in Europe, Eastern Europe, broad European equity exposure and two Asian markets.

The European ETFs, which represent the bulk of the new offerings, all link to indexes from provider MSCI Barra. They include the MSCI Europe Growth, Europe Value, Europe High Dividend, European Monetary Union High Dividend, Europe IT, and Europe Telecom Services. A France-focused ETF takes a short position on the Cac 40, joining rival providers db x-trackers and Easy ETF, the latter launching a double-short version last week.

In emerging markets, again linking to MSCI indexes, Casam launched the