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.
Late March saw The Federal Reserve establish the Secondary Market Corporate Credit Facility (SMCCF) to support credit to employers by providing liquidity to the market for outstanding corporate bonds.
Brian Kraus, Head of Investment Consulting and Internal Sales, Hartford Funds writes that investors are looking for new opportunities to generate alpha in this volatile market climate, but the potential benefits of multi-factor ETFs should not be ignored.
Cerulli Associates reports that while actively managed equity funds continue to accumulate flows in India, the local mutual fund industry is seeing increasing activity in the passive segment with the launch of ETFs and index funds.
ETFs proved their resilience through the volatility and, beyond that, acted as instant market access tools, as well as providing price discovery and liquidity for investors, during the recent stressed market scenario, according to a note by DWS’s capital markets team.
