Beverly Chandler conducts a Q&A interview with South Korea’s Qraft Technologies, led by CEO Hyungsik Kim, pictured.  »

ETF providers and users have had a good week demonstrating the superior advantages of their wrap around structure as the financial news in the UK has been dominated by the gating of former star stock picker Neil Woodford’s Equity Income Fund. »

The three pillars of ESG investing, environmental, social, and governance, are all important, but Vince Birley (pictured), CEO, Vident Financial, which runs a suite of ETFs, says that it is governance that has an outsized impact on corporate performance.  »

ETF provider VanEck has added to its suite of Guided Allocation funds with the launch of the VanEck Vectors Municipal Allocation ETF (MAAX), an ETF of ETFs designed around a proprietary model that uses momentum, along with both duration and credit risk indicators, to tactically allocate among selected VanEck Vectors Municipal Bond ETFs. »

Canadian firm Accelerate Financial Technologies has launched three zero management fee, performance fee only alternative ETFs, designed to offer access to alternatives in a bid to democratise investment in the sector. »

Jason Xavier (pictured), head of EMEA ETF Capital Markets at Franklin Templeton has written a note on the significance of bid/ask spreads in assessing the attractiveness of ETFs. »

Assets under management in European-domiciled ETFs have more than doubled over the past five years to EUR760 billion at the end of March 2019, according to a Morningstar report on ETFs.   »