Columbia Threadneedle’s Diversified Fixed Income Allocation ETF (DIAL), a strategic beta multi-sector fixed income ETF, has seen its assets rise to over USD1 billion, with USD500 million of net new inflows in the past six months, following its three-year anniversary in October 2020.
Global ETP flows finally dropped in April, after two record-breaking months, says BlackRock, with numbers down from USD136.4 billion in March to USD102.6 billion in April.
In terms of European-listed ETFs, Tradeweb reports notional volume traded on the Tradeweb European ETF marketplace amounted to EUR39.2 billion in April, while the proportion of transactions completed via Tradeweb’s Automated Intelligent Execution (AiEX) tool rose to 73.8 per cent.
ETF distribution and education firm NTree International, has hired a China expert, Brendan Mueller (pictured), as Head of Greater China to help develop its business in the region.
Digital investment specialist firm Osprey Funds has launched the Osprey Polkadot Trust for private placement. DOT, the native token of the Polkadot network, has a market capitalisation of over USD31 billion and is the eighth largest cryptocurrency.
TrackInsight has published the results of the TrackInsight Global ETF Survey 2021, supported by IHS Markit and JP Morgan Asset Management.
From the Swiss hedge fund and commodities firm, Diapason Commodities Management, comes Compass Financial Technologies, the index provider which already provides crypto index solutions on USD5 billion of crypto assets.
David Mann (pictured), Head of Capital Markets, Global ETFs at Franklin Templeton has been contemplating the hybrid nature of ETFs and the importance of considering trading volume when selecting them. Investors traditionally take into account ETF trading volume when they are selecting an ETF, he says, but these days investors might be trading over different time frames.
The latest global survey of 60 firms in the ETF industry by PwC reveals that global ETFs are set to continue the high levels of growth that have been experienced by the industry since this time last year.
AJ Bell has issued a comment on the recent news that the S&P Global Clean Energy Index has been significantly revised, prompting changes in ETFs tracking this index.
Emerging market internet specialist investor, Kevin Carter (pictured), has USD2 billion invested in the sector through his EMQQ ETF, which, last year, enjoyed returns of 80 per cent.
The head of Deutsche Börse's ETF segment, Stephan Kraus (pictured), is seeing the extraordinary power of the new range of cryptocurrency ETPs in full flight, with the ETC Group’s bitcoin ETP, launched last June, showing up as the most actively traded ETP in the first quarter of 2021. That product has just been joined by ETC’s Litecoin ETN, the first time litecoin has been available for trading via Xetra and Börse Frankfurt.
