Originally part of that options and derivative trading specialism that came out of Amsterdam in the 1980s, Optiver is now equally well known for its ETF business.
There is a fundamental difference between ESG fixed income investing and ESG equity investing says Michael John Lytle (pictured), CEO of specialist fixed income ETF provider Tabula Investment Management.
Voting is now underway for the ETF Express US Awards 2020, which will be unveiled and celebrated at an exclusive virtual ceremony and industry networking event to be held on 24 September.
Hosted by ETF Express, this live summit will discuss and debate how ETFs can be used in an institutional portfolio, in front of a specially selected audience of institutional investors and members of the ETF ecosystem.
Jim Nash (pictured), director at compliance consulting and outsourced broker/dealer firm Foreside, is urging ETF issuers to call their compliance consultants now as the December 2020 deadline looms for compliance with the ETF rule, rule 6c-11.
News came earlier this month that Amundi, one of Europe’s largest asset managers, had expanded its responsible investment offering with the launch of the Amundi MSCI Emerging ESG Leaders UCITS ETF with over EUR500 million from Ilmarinen, Finland’s largest pension insurance company.
Europe’s first white label ETF platform HANetf has enjoyed 600 per cent AUM growth over the last six months, with net creations across the entire range of products, and assets growing to over USD500 million, according to Hector McNeil (pictured), co-CEO, who founded the firm with Nik Bienkowski in 2017 and issued their first ETF at the end of 2018.
Change Finance, a majority women-owned ETF issuer with deep roots in activism, is making a big push for pay equity by asking every company in its holdings to release racial and gender median pay gap data.
Beyond Investing’s US Vegan Climate Index, a low-carbon benchmark for cruelty-free and sustainable investing, is two years old, and is celebrating the fact with an announcement that it has enjoyed outperformance versus the S&P 500 of 5.93 per cent, an annualised excess return of 2.92 per cent with a tracking error of 1.39 per cent since launch.
Morningstar’s Director of Global ETF Research, Ben Johnson, has commented on the latest annual US fund fee study from Morningstar which shows that in 2019 the asset-weighted average expense ratio across all mutual funds and ETFs was roughly half what investors paid in fund fees as of 20 years ago at 0.45 per cent.
The recent gold rush has brought attention to gold ETPs based on sovereign mints. Australia’s Perth Mint details its gold ETP and ETF offerings.
Refinitiv reports that its Lipper data reveals that the promoters of ETFs in Europe experienced net inflows of EUR5.3 billion for May, bringing the total up to EUR798.7 billion, as markets bounced back from their lows.
