HSBC Global Asset Management
HSBC currently offers 26 ETFs in Europe with combined assets under management of roughly $3.9bn (£2.4bn). The company started managing ETFs in Hong Kong in 2003 and developed its European offering in 2009. Its vehicles are all physical, rather than synthetic ETFs and cover a variety of both developed and emerging equity markets.
iShares
Bought by BlackRock from Barclays in 2009, iShares is one of the biggest ETP providers in the UK, with its first launch in Europe on the London Stock Exchange in 2000. Assets held in iShares products across nine major UK platforms reached £1.05bn at the end of 2013.
Lyxor Asset Management
A subsidiary of Société Générale group, Lyxor Asset Management currently offers approximately 122 UK-listed ETPs covering fixed income, developed equities, emerging market equities, commodities and smart beta. It launched its first ETP in the UK in 2007 and it currently has approximately $46bn (£27.7bn) of assets in ETPs across Europe.
Vanguard
The company currently offers nine ETFs listed on the London Stock Exchange, including eight equity offerings and one fixed income vehicle. These cover UK government bonds, emerging markets, Japan, Asia, the UK, US and Europe. The first ETF was launched in the UK in May 2012, and the total assets under management in the nine strategies is roughly $5.3bn (£3.2bn).
