OREANDA-NEWS.  A new index fund from the ETF offering of PowerShares Global Funds has been tradable on Xetra and Börse Frankfurt since Monday, 15 February.

ETF name: PowerShares EURO STOXX High Dividend Low Volatility UCITS ETF
Asset class: equity index ETF
ISIN: IE00BZ4BMM98
Total expense ratio: 0.3 percent
Distribution policy: distributing
Benchmark: EURO iSTOXX High Dividend Low Volatility 50 Index

The PowerShares EURO STOXX High Dividend Low Volatility UCITS ETF offers investors first-time access to the performance of euro zone stock companies with high dividends and low volatility. The weighting of the individual companies in the reference index EURO iSTOXX High Dividend Low Volatility 50 is based on the historical one-year dividend yields whereby each company is limited to a maximum weighting of three percent and only a maximum of ten companies per country can be included.

The product offering in Deutsche Börse's XTF segment currently comprises a total of 1,123 exchange traded funds. This selection, together with an average monthly trading volume of around €16 billion, makes Xetra Europe’s leading trading venue for ETFs.

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