Changebridge Capital dials up active management offering in ETF landscape

Europe’s largest digital wealth manager, Nutmeg, with GBP2.3 billion under management, is to launch a bespoke new range of five risk-rated ETF portfolios with JP Morgan Asset Management (JPMAM).

SS&C Technologies Holdings is the world’s largest hedge fund and private equity administrator, as well as the largest mutual fund transfer agency, responsible for USD1.7 trillion in assets.

Tesla is to list on the S&P 500 next month and Will Rhind, GraniteShares founder and CEO, has commented on the news. His firm offers 3x long and 3x short ETPs on Tesla. 

The not for profit ETF issuer Impact Shares has announced that Marvin Owens (pictured), previously the Senior Director of Economic Development at the NAACP, is to join the firm as Chief Engagement Officer.

Marc Pfeffer is chief investment officer of CLS Investments, the award-winning exchange traded fund strategist firm that is hyper-focused on the ETF landscape. The firm was founded in 1989, founded managed funds in 1997 and bought its first ETF in 1998.

BlackRock reports that global flows into ETPs fell to USD47.4 billion in October, down from USD55 billion in September, despite a pickup in fixed income buying to USD23.3 billion. 

ROBO Global Robotics & Automation ETF and index is about to celebrate its seventh birthday, having been the first index to track the global robotics and automation supply chain.

Sparrows Capital has launched a range of ESG portfolios on its platform-based model portfolio service, SCore MPS, aimed at financial advisers.

The Index Industry Association’s (IIA) fourth Annual Benchmark Survey has revealed a 40 per cent growth in the number of indices measuring ESG criteria in the past year, and indexes covering fixed income also saw growth, 7.1 per cent over the last year and close to 15 per cent in the last two years.

That most fashionable, but potentially volatile, of sectors, Special Purpose Acquisition Companies (SPACs) has seen enormous growth so far this year, with 133 SPACs, which are also known as blank cheque companies, floated in the US, raising USD51.1 billion, nearly four times last year’s volume, and a further 67 waiting to launch, according to Spac Research. Some 80 SPACs raised more than USD32 billion in Q3 2020.