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About Us
ETF Securities is a provider of Exchange Traded Commodities (ETCs), Exchange Traded Currencies (ETCs) and 3rd generation Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs). The management of ETF Securities pioneered the development of ETCs, with the world's first listing of an ETC, Gold Bullion Securities in Australia and London in 2003 and then the world's first entire ETC platform which was listed on the London Stock Exchange in September 2006.
Partners
ETF Securities has worked with the following organisations to develop ETCs:
HSBC N.A. - HSBC is one of the world's leading custodians for precious metals and is the world's leading custodian for precious metal ETCs.
World Gold Council - The World Gold Council is an organisation formed and funded by the world's leading gold mining companies with the aim of stimulating and maximising the demand for, and holding of, gold by consumers, investors, industry, and the official sector.
Royal Dutch Shell - The Royal Dutch/Shell Group is a global group of energy and petrochemicals companies, operating in more than 140 countries and territories.
UBS - Headquartered in Zurich and Basel, Switzerland, UBS is one of the world's leading financial firms. It serves a discerning, international client base with its wealth management, investment banking and asset management businesses. In Switzerland, UBS is the market leader in retail and commercial banking. UBS is present in all major financial centers worldwide. It has offices in over 50 countries, with about 38% of its employees working in the Americas, 34% in Switzerland, 15% in the rest of Europe and 13% in Asia Pacific. UBS employs more than 75,000 people around the world. Its shares are listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange, the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and the Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE).
Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) - is a leading global financial services firm providing a wide range of investment banking, securities, investment management and wealth management services. The Firm's employees serve clients worldwide including corporations, governments, institutions and individuals from more than 1,200 offices in 36 countries. For further information about Morgan Stanley, please visit www.morganstanley.com.
ETF Exchange (ETFX)
ETF Exchange is the world’s first 3rd Generation ETF Platform offering investors access to low cost swap backed ETFs with credit diversification across a number of participants rather than reliance on a single bank. As the banks, APs and market makers compete for business, true liquidity and competition is created.
ETF Securities is working with: Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Barclays Capital, Citi, and Rabobank International who are participants on the platform, acting as distribution partners, authorised participants and swap providers.
To find out more about ETFX Partners click here.
Introducing Third Generation ETFs
Third generation ETFs meet investor demands for increased levels of transparency, liquidity and counterparty risk management. Third Generation ETFs provide diversified index replication across a consortium of the strongest financial players and concentrate liquidity within a single platform.
History
| 2003 |
Listed world's first gold ETC. |
| 2005 |
Listed world's first oil ETC. |
| 2006 |
Listed world's first entire ETC platform. |
| 2007 |
Listed world's first physical metal ETC platform. |
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Listed world's first Forward ETC platform, providing investors the ability to invest along the commodity futures curve. |
| 2008 |
Listed world's first Short and Leveraged ETC platform. |
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Announced world's first Shariah compliant precious metal ETC platform. |
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Listed on 5 major European Exchanges: London Stock Exchange, Deutsche Börse, Euronext Paris and Amsterdam, Borsa Italiana. |
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Completes acquisition of Gold Bullion Securities products on London and Australian Securities Exchanges. |
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Listed the world's first Carbon ETC. |
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Listed Europe's most complete platform of 13 commodity themed sector ETFs. |
| 2009 |
Listed five physical precious metals ETCs on the Australian Securities Exchange. |
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Listed Europe’s most complete platform of ETFs tracking 2x Short and 2x Leveraged Equity Indices. |
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Listed world’s largest Exchange Traded Currency platform. |
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Launched the world’s first third generation ETF platform. |
| 2010 |
Listed 10 new Euro-based Currency ETCs on Xetra. |
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Listed 14 Commodity Exchange Traded Funds on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. |
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Listed Europe’s first ETCs on the Chinese Renminbi and Indian Rupee on the LSE. |
Awards
Awarded Most Innovative ETP Award for Europe – Exchange Traded Currencies 2009 as voted by the readers of www.exchangetradedfunds.com
Awarded Most Assets ETP, Award for Europe – ETFS Physical Gold 2009 as voted by the readers of www.exchangetradedfunds.com
Awarded Most Assets ETP, Award for Asia Pacific – ETFS Physical Gold 2009 as voted by the readers of www.exchangetradedfunds.com
Awarded ‘Best Currency ETF Management Company 2009’ as voted by the readers of ETF Express.
Awarded ‘Most Innovative ETF Provider 2009’ as voted by the readers of ETF Express.
Awarded ‘Most Innovative ETP Provider 2009’ as voted by the readers of ETF Express.
Awarded ‘Best Commodity ETF Management Company - highly commended 2009’ as voted by the readers of ETF Express.
Awarded 'Best ETF Provider – Commodities 2009’ as voted by the readers of Portfolio Institutionell/International magazine in Germany.
Awarded 'Most Innovative ETF Hybrid Product Award for Europe 2006', 2007' & 2008' as voted by the readers of www.exchangetradedfunds.com
Awarded 'Most Innovative Product 2006 & 2007' as voted by the editors of Investors Chronicle (UK)
Awarded 'Most Innovative ETF 2005 - OILB' as voted by the readers of www.exchangetradedfunds.com
Management
Graham Tuckwell - Chairman
Graham Tuckwell is the founder and chairman of the ETF Securities group of companies. He is also the founder and chairman of Gold Bullion Securities Limited in Jersey and Australia, which companies obtained the world's first listings of a commodity on a stock exchange. Previously, Graham was the founder and managing director of Investor Resources Limited, a boutique corporate advisory firm, which specialised in providing financial, technical and strategic advice to the resources industry. Prior to establishing Gold Bullion Securities Limited and Investor Resources Limited, he was Head of Mining Asia/Pacific at Salomon Brothers, Group Executive Director at Normandy Mining responsible for Strategy and Acquisitions and Head of Mergers and Acquisitions at Credit Suisse First Boston in Australia. Graham holds a Bachelor of Economics (Honours) and a Bachelor of Laws degree from the Australian National University.
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Nik Bienkowski - Chief Operating Officer
Nik Bienkowski helped Graham Tuckwell found ETF Securities. Nik joined Graham Tuckwell in 2002 when they established Gold Bullion Securities, the world's first gold ETC. Nik had previously been involved with marketing and research but now covers product development, listings and Exchange relations and index licensing. Previously, Nik spent almost five years at a number of departmental start-ups including the Canadian office for Macquarie Bank's mining team and Towers Perrin's global custody consulting team. Nik holds the CFA and B.A./B.Comm (Honours Finance) degrees from Melbourne University.
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Hector McNeil - Head of Sales and Marketing
Hector McNeil is responsible for sales and marketing for the ETF Securities group of companies. Hector started his career at the London Stock Exchange after completing his studies at the University of Hull. Hector left the LSE to study full time for an MBA at Warwick Business School. He then had a short stint at BZW before moving to Morgan Stanley for five years. From Morgan Stanley, Hector moved to become Chief Operating Officer at Jiway, the Exchange joint venture between Morgan Stanley and OM Gruppen. After Jiway, Hector spent time at Nomura, and then was Head of Business Development at Susquehanna International Securities, setting up a highly successful market making and liquidity provision business which included ETF, stock future and equity market making.
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Tom Quigley, Chief Financial Officer
Tom Quigley is the Chief Financial officer of ETF Securities Limited based in Jersey. Previously Mr Quigley has held senior management positions in investment banking where he was a Managing Director at ING Barings Investment Banking and prior to that at Close Brothers Corporate Finance in the City of London. More recently he was a Director of Terra Firma Capital Partners, the private equity firm and a Managing Director at W.P. Carey & Co LLC, the asset management firm. He is a Chartered Accountant and member of the ICAEW having trained with Price Waterhouse, London. He holds an MA in Physics from Oxford University, England.
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Mark Weeks, Chief Executive
Mark is responsible for driving the ETF Exchange strategy, business development and co-ordinating with all parties involved. Mark joins from UBS where he ran the highly successful Securities Lending franchise in Zurich. Prior to this, he spent 7 years at Goldman Sachs International, where as a Managing Director he was responsible for running the European Securities Finance sales and trading desk, servicing major institutional and hedge fund clients. This desk formed a core part of Goldman Sach's highly successful Prime Brokerage business. Before being appointed at Goldman Sachs, Mark joined London Global Securities in 1993, as Global Head of Securities Finance sales. Mark started his career in 1985 joining IP Sharp to sell securities finance systems, which led to a role at Morgan Stanley, where he was responsible for the European Securities Finance sales and trading business.
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Nicholas Brooks, Head of Research and Investment Strategy
Nicholas is head of research and investment strategy for the ETF Securities group of companies. Nicholas has over 15 years experience as a global economist and strategist, covering a wide range of markets and asset classes. Prior to joining ETF Securities, Nicholas was a senior member of Henderson Global Investors asset allocation and strategy team based in London. Before that he was senior economist on Deutsche Bank’s top ranked Global Markets strategy and economics team. He started his career at Citibank in New York. Nicholas has a B.A. from Brown University, an M.A. from Columbia University, an MSc in Economics from the University of London, and has completed work on a PhD thesis examining financial fragility and the dynamics of financial crisis.
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