Investors need to reconsider their approach to dividends in this new investment climate, says Chris Huemmer, Senior Investment Strategist at USD16 billion FlexShares Exchange Traded Funds.
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UK investors should look to the three Rs – reset, rebound and redesign – as they consider what to do next in terms of portfolio construction, says Nick Hutton (pictured), head of UK iShares and Wealth at fund management giant BlackRock…
For the first time in its 107-year history, on 23 March this year, the US’s Federal Reserve announced that through its Secondary Market Corporate Credit Facility (SMCCF), it would start buying corporate bond ETFs, a process that actually commenced on 12 May.
TrueMark Investments’ Principal and Chief Investment Officer Jordan Waldrep, Principal, provider of the ESG Active Opportunities ETF (ECOZ), comments that the Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated new societal trends such as working from home and contactless payments.
Legg Mason and its affiliate, ClearBridge Investments, LLC, have launched Legg Mason’s first ETF using the semi-transparent technology of Precidian Investments LLC, ActiveShares.
Leveraged and short ETPs have seen growth over the period of market volatility. REX Shares’ US Big Oil Index 3x Leveraged ETN (NRGU) has had its principal amount increased by USD250 million, to a new total of USD975 million and 19.5 million notes, respectively, its eighth upsize in 2020, so far.
Tracking the major regulatory market developments in ETFs, and what they mean for clients keeps Sean Tuffy (pictured), Director, Head of Market & Regulatory Intelligence, Securities Services, Citi, and his team busy.
State Street dominates the ETF industry in Ireland, and Ireland dominates the ETF industry across Europe. Ciarán Fitzpatrick (pictured), Managing Director & Head of ETF Servicing Ireland, State Street, explains that Ireland is the firm’s largest domicile for ETFs outside of the US, with over 500 ETFs serviced across 10 clients and USD450 billion in assets under administration in Ireland, representing 83 per cent of the Irish market.
What is it about collecting that forces someone to want everything on a list once they have engaged with their first item of that kind? One needs to only think of either record collectors or train spotters to know this habit can get out of control. Oddly enough this line of thinking also applies to investing - once you have traded one US Equity Sector ETF, then one’s inner voice compels you to keep looking at all of them.
The current situation, with so many people in isolation, is leading to increased demand for cloud services says Dan Ives, Wedbush technology analyst and manager of the Wedbush ETFMG Global Cloud Technology ETF (NYSE Arca: IVES).
Having trained with Dillon Eustace, Brian Higgins (pictured), partner, returned some 14 years ago and is now in the happy position of being with Ireland’s largest law firm in the funds industry, and working with Dublin-registered ETFs. Higgins is joining the regulatory panel for etfLIVE Europe, discussing the rapid rise of the ETF industry and the potential impact of MiFID II changes and the potential for active ETFs in Europe.
