Planet Tracker calls on ETF providers to avoid deforestation risk
Not for profit organisation Planet Tracker has launched a blistering call to arms naming the seven companies that it says are critical to tackling ETF deforestation risk.
Not for profit organisation Planet Tracker has launched a blistering call to arms naming the seven companies that it says are critical to tackling ETF deforestation risk.
Simon Klein, global head of passive sales at DWS, has published a note on the performance of the Xtrackers range over 2020. He writes that Xtrackers globally reached EUR132 billion in AUM, up 16 per cent compared with 2019. Net new assets were EUR15 billion, with impressive gains of EUR5 billion achieved globally in ESG ETF inflows.
News came in early January that SIX, the Swiss Stock Exchange, had registered the listing of HANetf’s BTCE ETP by ETC Group, further strengthening its position at the forefront of the provision of crypto ETPs.
Value investing gets another outing and a different look with Distillate Capital’s Value Investing 2.0 approach.
JPMorgan Asset Management, its Shanghai-based joint venture, China International Fund Management, and investment platform Snowball Finance, have published a survey of the current ETF landscape in China.
Morningstar reports in its European ETF Asset Flows Update for the fourth quarter of 2020 that European ETFs closed 2020 breaking through the EUR1 trillion barrier in assets.
Just in time to start thinking about holiday shopping, Sean O'Hara, President of Pacer ETF Distributors reminds us that the world’s increasing reliance upon online shopping means potential growth for his industrial real estate ETF, INDS.
US-based NextFins has launched INDF, the Nifty India Financials ETF, based on the Nifty Financial Services 25/50 Index, which reflects the performance of Indian banks, financial institutions, housing finance companies, insurance companies and other financial services companies.
Crypto asset management firm CoinShares, with over USD1 billion in assets under management, is to use Compass Financial Technologies to calculate and publish the official prices of the XBT Provider range of ETPs on Bloomberg and Reuters.
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).
By Allan Lane, Algo-Chain – If you are a Discretionary Fund Manager running Model Portfolios on financial adviser platforms, you will often find that ETFs available on one platform are not available on another, which invariably forces the manager to oversee multiple incarnations of what is meant to be the same portfolio.