Increased demand in commodities drives rise in commodity ETF flows and products

Hector McNeil, HANetf co-founder, has confirmed that the London-headquartered firm intends to open in the US in the first half of next year, offering their white label facility to ETF issuers from outside the US, who want to launch ETFs into the country. 

BlackRock’s global ETP flows figures for June 2021 show that flows into US equity ETPs increased 2.5x vs. May’s flows, with USD71.7 billion of inflows in June – the second-highest month on record, behind the mammoth USD75.7 billion added in March this year, and ahead of the USD61.7 billion added in February. 

German-headquartered Iconic Holding is a global crypto asset management group, with offices in Singapore, Dubai and New York. The firm, under its Iconic Funds subsidiary, recently launched its first physically backed bitcoin ETP on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, with the ticker XBTI, and on the Swiss Stock Exchange on May 28, 2021. 

Data from global ETF analysis platform Trackinsight reveals that energy and energy infrastructure was the highest-performing segment of the ETF markets in the first half of 2021.

There is a new cub on the block with the launch of Dawn Global’s Asian Growth Cubs ETF on NYSE, focusing on Emerging Asia ex China/India.
 

Kevin Carter’s emerging market internet ETF, EMQQ, has had another interesting year, having been up 80 per cent last calendar year, up 25 per cent in the first six weeks of this year and then undergone a period of such extreme volatility that it is largely flat for its year-to-date figures.

Bill Kapogiannis, DTCC Executive Director, Equities Clearing Services writes that there is nothing like a crisis to help put things into perspective, and the market volatility that ensued as a result of the pandemic has placed a spotlight on the operations of the ETF market, especially as it relates to the need to increase operational efficiency while removing as much counterparty risk as possible.

Milwaukee-based Robert W Baird & Co is an American multinational independent investment bank and financial services company, offering broker dealer services to institutions and asset managers, focused on the middle market arena, particularly single stock small and mid-cap companies.

Six years of growth has seen US ETF issuer Pacer achieve USD7.5 billion in assets under management in its range of rules-based ETFs.

The World Gold Council’s latest report on gold ETFs reveals that gold has experienced significant price declines of 6 per cent during the first half of 2021. However, fund flows remain stabilised due to the North American and Asian fund flows offsetting European outflows. Overall, the drop in global gold ETF AUM is 14 per cent lower than August 2020 highs.