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.
It’s less than a week now until etfLive Europe, our essential online event for institutional investors, fund managers and wealth advisers, kicks off with a programme of panel discussions, Q&A sessions and presentations spread over three days (19-21 May).
The May Bank of England (BoE) Financial Stability Report has found that investors ‘may have found it easier to trade ETF shares’ in March.
The April European ETF report from the Lipper team at Refinitiv shows that the promoters of ETFs in Europe experienced net inflows of EUR8.7 billion for April, with the assets under management in the European ETF industry (EUR777.9 billion) increasing over the month as markets bounced back from their lows.
The first two ETFs to launch in the Precidian ActiveShares’ semi-transparent structure in February, from American Century Investments have performed well. The American Century Focused Dynamic Growth ETF (FDG) is in the top 10 – 15 per cent of all growth funds, including mutual funds and ETFs within the Morningstar dataset, reports Edward Rosenberg (pictured), senior vice president and head of ETFs at the firm.
BlackRock’s iShares report for April reveals inflows into global ETPs increased to USD68.6 billion in April amid a broad recovery in risk sentiment, as a return to positive buying in fixed income offset a drop off in equity buying.
