February data from TrackInsight reveals that ETFs continued their seemingly unstoppable growth trajectory to reach a new global high of USD8 trillion, in assets under management, driven by what it calls ‘exploding flows’ in North American markets and huge investor appetite for ESG products.
Cerulli Associates’ Singapore office reports that Australian ETFs have enjoyed a record year as investors leveraged ETFs to make a run for safety and diversification during the pandemic.
2019 saw South Korean firm Qraft Technologies launch its first two ETFs, through US white labeller ETC, using an investment process based on a proprietary artificial intelligence (AI) security selection process that extracts patterns from analysing data.
December 2020 brought news that the US’s thematic ETF specialists, Global X, with assets in early February standing at USD26.3 billion, was to launch a European office.
Rumi Mahmood, Senior Associate, ESG Research, MSCI has published his first, in what is planned to be a series, of reports on ESG fund transparency.
Northern Trust Asset Management’s FlexShares Exchange Traded Funds has announced it is to open in Europe, with the launch of two climate focused ETFs, the FlexShares Developed Markets Low Volatility Climate ESG UCITS ETF (QVFD) and the FlexShares Developed Market High Dividend Climate ESG UCITS ETF (QDFD).
Fundamental Income’s net lease ETF, NETL, has endured a range of challenges over recent months, but its strong fundamentals are now driving its asset flows back up.
VanEck Vectors Video Gaming and eSports ETF (ESPO) has returned 84.24 per cent (NAV) for the year in another fine example of right place, right time investing.
The team at ETF Express is very pleased to announce the winners of this year’s ETF Express European Awards, compiled in conjunction with Bloomberg.
The vocabulary of the Californian gold rush era is employed to explain the differentiation in iClima Earth’s impact ESG ETF. Gabriela Herculano (pictured), CEO of the iClima Global Decarbonisation Enablers ETF, says that the firm wanted to shift the narrative to the innovators in ESG, in other words the companies that supply the shovels.
Europe’s first and only white labeller, HANetf, is having quite the year, having hit well over USD2 billion in assets on the back of bitcoin and cannabis. Hector McNeil (pictured), co-founder and co-CEO of the firm has now announced that they have hired Manooj Mistry, former head of Index Investing at DWS.
HM Treasury’s Review of the UK funds regime, January 2021, entitled ‘A call for input Defining areas of opportunity’ is a wide-ranging consultation on the fund industry in general in the UK, trying to find areas where, post Brexit, the country could build its asset management industry.
