Aussie active ETF launch

Australia’s Talaria Capital launches active ETFs

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

By Beverly Chandler | 26/11/2021

Partner feature

Collaboration with clients lies behind Qontigo’s successful partnerships

When it comes to sustainable investing, the approach from Qontigo’s STOXX indices is one of collaboration and customisation.

29/11/2021

German appetite for ETFs

Stockmarket investing boom in Germany driven by increased use of ETFs says Scalable Capital

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.

19/11/2021

Features

Pent up demand and regulatory change supports growth of sports betting and iGaming ETF

A long history in all types of casinos and sports betting arenas gives Aaron Fischer, co-founder of the Fischer Sports Betting and iGaming UCITS ETF Fischer Gaming, and his gaming consultancy Fischer Gaming, local knowledge on the subject.

By Beverly Chandler | 08/11/2021

Mean reversion and sunseeking underpin global airline ETF

It was the constant travel that US Global Investors’ CEO and CIO Frank Holmes endured as he managed his firm’s global portfolios focused not only in gold, but in China and across eastern European equities that led to the establishment of his global airline portfolio.

By Beverly Chandler | 02/11/2021

Managed futures’ roots aids Auspice’s commodity ETF

The Direxion Auspice Broad Commodity Strategy ETF, COM, is one of the only commodity ETFs to have a five-star Morningstar rating and has outperformed all other broad commodity ETFs with significantly less volatility and drawdown.

By Beverly Chandler | 29/10/2021

Managed futures ETFs are better than hedge funds says Dynamic Beta’s Beer

Hedge fund replication specialist firm Dynamic Beta Investments’ Andrew Beer believes that managed futures ETFs are better than hedge funds, and his DBMF fund, iM DBi Managed Futures Strategy ETF, is up 12.5 per cent year to date to prove it.

By Beverly Chandler | 26/10/2021

Humankind offers single dollar figure for a company’s social and economic value

Former Vanguard analyst James Katz has founded Humankind Investments, whose first product, the Humankind US Stock ETF (HKND) has just gone over USD100 million in assets.

By Beverly Chandler | 25/10/2021

ETF Express US ETF awards 2021 - celebrating the winners

ETF Express is proud to bring you the best of the best in the US ETF industry with interviews and profiles of the winners from our US Awards 2021.

By Beverly Chandler | 25/10/2021

BITO hits USD1.1 billion in assets after two days of trading

After two days of trading, the BITO ETF from ProShares, the first bitcoin-linked ETF in the US, has assets of USD1.1 billion. BITO saw trading volume of over 29 million shares on Wednesday, representing over USD1.2 billion.

By Beverly Chandler | 21/10/2021

BNY Mellon’s Slavin comments on ‘that’ launch and Grayscale’s step-up to convert to ETF

Hard on the heels of the launch of the first bitcoin futures ETF from ProShares this week, comes the news that NYSE Arca has filed Form 19b-4 with the SEC to convert the USD23 billion bitcoin trust GBTC from Grayscale Investments that into a Bitcoin Spot ETF.

By Beverly Chandler | 20/10/2021

Equiduct to expand range of ETF offering in Europe

European retail exchange Equiduct is expanding its launch into offering ETFs via its Apex platform with another 200 new products in the form of leveraged and inverse ETPs to be added by the end of the year.

By Beverly Chandler | 18/10/2021

ProShares set to launch the first US bitcoin-linked ETF

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

By Beverly Chandler | 18/10/2021

ESG and sustainable investing

Invesco integrates ESG factors across all asset classes and sectors

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.

By Beverly Chandler | 22/11/2021

In My Opinion

What lies around the corner for digital assets?

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

22/11/2021

Impact investing

Impact Shares to launch CAT bond fund

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.

By Beverly Chandler | 22/11/2021

Big data for ETFs

big xyt offers independent approach to data analysis for ETFs

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.

By Beverly Chandler | 15/11/2021

Special Reports

ETF Express US Awards Insight Report 2021

ETF Express Awards European Winners 2021

ETF Global Outlook 2021

ETF Indices in Focus 2020

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Crypto

BNY Mellon’s Slavin offers perspective on the future of the US crypto ETP market following recent comments from SEC Chairman Gensler

Chairman Gensler of the SEC piqued the interest in the US’s ETP community with his recent comments on what might finally become the acceptable product to break the country’s crypto ETP drought.

By Beverly Chandler | 13/09/2021

Bitcoin futures

ETC launches first bitcoin futures contract on Eurex

Digital ETP issuer ETC Group has announced the debut and live listing of Europe’s first bitcoin futures contract on Eurex, Europe’s largest derivatives exchange.

By Beverly Chandler | 13/09/2021

Digital asset administration

Truss Edge launches upgrade to platform, including facilitating digital asset management

ETF and hedge fund technology specialist Truss Edge has released a major new upgrade for its technology platform which includes a number of improvements for asset managers.

By Beverly Chandler | 13/09/2021

Vegan ETF

VEGAN ETF celebrates two years of outperformance

The world's first and only vegan ETF, the US Vegan Climate ETF (ticker:VEGN) has reached its two year anniversary since launch, with almost USD65million in assets since inception, and having returned 67.91 per cent vs S&P 500 Index’s 57.07 per cent (on market price) since inception to end of August 2021.

By Beverly Chandler | 08/09/2021

Thematic ETFs

Connectivity dominated thematic ETFs in August says Global X Europe

Global X’s European Thematic UCITS Report for August 2021 from Morgane Delledonne, Director of Research, finds that UCITS Thematic ETFs recorded USD559 million of net inflows, after attracting USD795 million in July.

By Beverly Chandler | 04/09/2021