db X-trackers won "Outstanding Achiever: Provider of the Year - ETF" and "Best-in-Class: Best Investor Education - ETF"
In 2011, db X-trackers hosted 50 conferences with institutional clients and private banks together with 20 targeted seminars. The topics for this group professional and accredited investors were liquidity, taxation, tracking error and counterparty risks.
On top of that, db X-trackers organised with key brokers, media, retail banks, wealth planners and stock exchanges in the region on 10 retail seminars attended by a total of 4,500 retail investors. The topics for them were about risks and benefits of investing in ETFs as a diversification tool of risks beyond local markets.
50 interviews and press conferences were offered for trade and mass publications in order to educate journalists the development of ETFs.
Educational seminars and conferences were tailor-made with the ultimate goal of giving relevant information to the targeted investor groups.