Optiver's Botman details volatile markets experience, looks for new trends and argues against SIs

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.

The market volatility and widespread uncertainty on the global economic outlook has created a more defensive attitude in most investors. The result has been a rise in popularity for defined outcome ETFs, designed to limit losses and maximise returns.

Love it or hate it, exposure to pioneer electric car maker Tesla, described by GraniteShares as the 'Marmite of stocks', can be exacerbated by use of the GraniteShares 3x long or 3x short London Stock Exchange listed ETPs

BNY Mellon Investment Management’s high yield beta strategy emerged in ETF form with the recent launches of its first in-house ETFs. 

US-based independent institutional asset manager, Sage Advisory Services, with over USD14 billion in assets under management, has just published its third annual survey of ETF providers, examining how well they perform their fiduciary duty on behalf of ETF investors.

US investment money management firm Toews Corporation, with USD1.8 billion under management, has marched into the ETF arena with the launch of its Agility Shares family of ETFs, specifically the Agility Shares Managed Risk ETF (MRSK) and the Agility Shares Dynamic Tactical Income ETF (THY).

April brought the news that ETF industry giant BNY Mellon was to launch its first range of ETFs. Stephanie Pierce (pictured), CEO of BNY Mellon Investment Management’s ETF and Index Business, commented at the time that the launch was focused on meeting the needs of the firm’s clients.

The latest fees survey from Morningstar for the US ETF industry finds that the average expense ratio paid by fund investors is half of what it was two decades ago. 

Despite being the launch pad for the Covid-19 pandemic that has swept the world and changed it forever, China as an investment destination has kept up in the performance stakes, both in terms of offering performance to external investors and in growing its own domestic asset base.

ETF analytics platform, TrackInsight, has agreed a deal with Nasdaq to be its exclusive distributor for North America, disseminating its services to financial institutions throughout North and South America and promoting the platform’s usage among investment professionals.