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

Andrew Little, Research Analyst at Global X, has written an extensive note on Biden’s Infrastructure Investment & Jobs Act and its potential impact for investors.

News came last week that iM Global Partner, a global asset management network, has made another alliance in its US expansion by entering into a partnership with Richard Bernstein Advisors (RBA). The firm acquired a 45 per cent non-controlling stake in RBA as of July 28, 2021.

Bitcoin was back in the spotlight last week with its largest single day gain in six weeks, after (apparently false) rumours were spread of crypto payment acceptance from Amazon by the end of the year, says CoinShares’ chief revenue officer, Frank Spiteri.  

Martin Gilbert, famously, was the co-founder of Aberdeen Asset Management plc at its launch in 1983 and was its Chief Executive until 2019, and finally stepped down from his role as Chairman in September 2020. 

A drop in US-listed US equity flows is almost entirely responsible for July’s fall in equity flows, iShares says, with net inflows of USD20.6 billion significantly down from the USD67.5 billion added to US-listed US equity in June, which was the second-highest inflow month on record for the exposure. 

2019 was a turning point year for the newly named Qontigo group, the year when its index provider, STOXX, merged with US-analytic firm Axioma. The resulting company is majority owned by Deutsche Boerse and has the index capabilities of STOXX and DAX, as well as the analytical skills of Axioma.

Grayscale Investments, the world’s largest digital currency asset manager, has hired Dave LaValle as Global Head of ETFs.

South Korean firm Qraft Technologies has just undergone its August rebalancing for its three core funds: AMOM, a momentum ETF, QRFT, an ETF focused on delivering alpha, and NVQ, a value ETF focused on uncovering the next value stocks in the market.

Canada’s BMO Global Asset Management (BMO GAM) has published its mid-year ETF report, which, it says, highlights the continued popularity and record-setting growth of ETFs in Canada. 

Change Finance, a majority women-run ETF issuer with deep roots in activism, has released its 2021 Advocacy Report, which details its commitment to active ownership and their five-tiered shareholder advocacy strategy to promote sustainable practices.