MerQube raises more funding bringing Silicon Valley tech to index production

Global Fund Media Ltd. is pleased to announce the editorial buy out of ETF Express and Wealth Adviser.  As of 1st October 2021, Beverly Chandler and her team will be responsible for the continued evolution of the two titles.

Wombat, the investment platform, launched in 2019 and based on thematic ETFs has seen rapid growth, particularly making inroads into the younger investor demographic.

AllianzIM, with assets of USD16.4 billion, launched its first product in the defined outcome ETF space in 2020.

According to the latest Global Factor Investing Study from Invesco, almost half, at 46 per cent, of institutional investors expect to increase the use of factor ETFs in their factor allocations over the next three years.

To say 2021 has been a big year for ETFs is a bit of an understatement, writes Bailey McCann, reporting from New York for ETF Express. 

Thursday, September 23rd sees publication of the list of winners for this year’s ETF US awards, celebrating the firms who represent the best in the US ETF industry, from issuer to service provider, covering all the parts of the ETF ecosystem. 

ETF Express is very pleased to bring you this thematic panel, filmed in association with Asset TV. The panellists, Allan Lane from Algo-Chain, HANetf’s Hector McNeil, Thomas Bailey from Interactive Investor and David Barfoot from RizeETF discussed the current popularity of thematic ETFs with ETF Express managing editor, Beverly Chandler.

ETF Express managing editor Beverly Chandler talks to SS&C founder Bill Stone, revisiting an interview from six years ago when he predicted a rise in passive investing. Stone discusses this, the pandemic and future trends in this film made in conjunction with Asset TV.

One ETF dominated performance over this year on the weekly trackinsight data published in ETF Express, and that was Breakwave Advisors’ Breakwave Dry Bulk Shipping ETF (NYSE ARCA: BDRY) launched in 2018.

Chairman Gensler of the SEC piqued the interest in the US’s ETP community with his recent comments on what might finally become the acceptable product to break the country’s crypto ETP drought.