Lyxor’s latest ETF Money Monitor for January shows that ETFs gathered EUR11.6 billion in January 2020, with ESG ETFs continuing their strong trend, gathering EUR2.3 billion.
Beyond Investing’s Claire Smith (pictured), creator of the US Vegan Climate Index writes this week’s In My Opinion, asking ‘Are all ESG Indexes as green as you want them to be?’
ETF fees are fairly permanently in the spotlight and the current price war between providers means that fees appear to continue to be pushed down.
HSBC Global Asset Management, with USD512 billion in assets under management, has launched what it calls ‘a wide ranging plan’ to substantially grow its ETF business in 2020 and subsequent years.
REX Shares’ president Scott Acheychek has announced the launch of the first leveraged ETNs offering exposure to the cannabis industry in North America.
By Allan Lane, Algo-Chain – Such has been the political din over the last 12 months, both here in Europe and the US, one can be forgiven if you weren’t able to keep abreast of the digital chaos that cut through the financial services industry. Trust me, as the saying goes, there was chaos.
Liquid alternative portfolios held through ETFs will see their assets more than double in the next 12 months, as institutional investors push into the sector according to a new Greenwich Associates study, commissioned by IndexIQ.
Derek Fulton (pictured), Chief Executive Officer at First Trust Global Portfolios believes that investors have become more concerned about taking excessive amounts of interest rate risk. However, there are ways of exposing a fixed income ETF to risk if done in a smart systematic way, he says.
