May you live in interesting times is famously a curse, but Kevin Carter, founder of EMQQ, has certainly achieved that with his emerging market technology ETF which he launched first in the US, five and a half years ago, and in the UK in 2018.
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The UK’s Investment Association finds that in the view of their members: “ETFs have proven themselves resilient despite the initial market shock and that they have provided a key source of liquidity and price discovery during the crisis.”
The World Gold Council reports that in the last five months, gold-backed ETF inflows have outpaced records for any whole calendar year, hitting record AUM highs of USD195 billion.
Investors need to reconsider their approach to dividends in this new investment climate, says Chris Huemmer, Senior Investment Strategist at USD16 billion FlexShares Exchange Traded Funds.
UK investors should look to the three Rs – reset, rebound and redesign – as they consider what to do next in terms of portfolio construction, says Nick Hutton (pictured), head of UK iShares and Wealth at fund management giant BlackRock…
For the first time in its 107-year history, on 23 March this year, the US’s Federal Reserve announced that through its Secondary Market Corporate Credit Facility (SMCCF), it would start buying corporate bond ETFs, a process that actually commenced on 12 May.
TrueMark Investments’ Principal and Chief Investment Officer Jordan Waldrep, Principal, provider of the ESG Active Opportunities ETF (ECOZ), comments that the Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated new societal trends such as working from home and contactless payments.
Legg Mason and its affiliate, ClearBridge Investments, LLC, have launched Legg Mason’s first ETF using the semi-transparent technology of Precidian Investments LLC, ActiveShares.
Leveraged and short ETPs have seen growth over the period of market volatility. REX Shares’ US Big Oil Index 3x Leveraged ETN (NRGU) has had its principal amount increased by USD250 million, to a new total of USD975 million and 19.5 million notes, respectively, its eighth upsize in 2020, so far.
By Allan Lane (pictured), Algo-Chain – We live in strange times; many countries have seen business come to a complete and utter standstill and yet in many instances the equity markets continue with gay abandon. In this new paradigm, perhaps best described as a once in a lifetime fish tank, some equity markets are performing much better than others.
Latest research from Cerulli Associates finds that the Covid-19 pandemic has eased, if not totally dispelled, long-standing worries that Europe’s ETF sector would buckle in the event of mass redemptions.
