Only good at being BAD enjoys strong launch support

Jamie Mead, Chief Executive Officer of Australia’s Talaria Capital talks to ETF Express about his firm’s recent ETF launches.

Germany’s digital wealth manager Scalable Capital is enjoying a boom in stock market investing in the country, driven in part by their ETF-based offering.

Every dollar of the USD1.5 trillion under management at global asset manager Invesco will be managed with ESG factors integrated into every decision by 2023, says Cathrine de Coninck-Lopez, Global Head of ESG at Invesco.

Benjamin Dean, Director, Digital Assets, WisdomTree explores what lies around the corner for digital assets
 

The US ETF impact investing firm Impact Shares recently announced the launch of the Impact Shares MSCI Global Climate Select ETF (NYSE: NTZO) at COP26.

News came this month that data analytics solution provider big xyt has partnered with ETFbook, an ETF information and analytics platform, to provide daily fund data for their Liquidity Cockpit for ETFs solution.

What the industry learned from the Guinness Atkinson conversion of the first mutual fund to ETF is that “it is a very complex project plan that touches all aspects of your business and relationships with service providers, investors, and intermediaries,” according to Sonja Formato, senior director at compliance and consulting firm Foreside. Foreside acts as legal underwriter for their mutual fund and ETF.

Bailey McCann writes from New York that new regulatory allowances and low yields in fixed income is driving US investors into riskier credits and they’re doing it in a new breed of ETFs.

US ETF issuer ProShares is set to launch the first bitcoin-linked ETF in the US on 19th October, with the ticker BITO.

The recent launch of Melanion Capital’s BTC Equities Universe UCITS, the first thematic UCITS bitcoin ETF in Europe, used the market making and liquidity provision of GHCO, in what was the first of many firsts in the crypto fund space.