Leverage Shares had quite the end of the year in 2021, breaking the record for the greatest number of listings in one day on the London Stock Exchange, with 42 new products offering a new range of ETPs, including ETPs on ARK Invest’s renowned range of thematic ETFs, with inverse and leverage options, plus access to Berkshire Hathaway.
2021 was a year that saw strong growth in the London Stock Exchange’s ETP range. Overall, there were 311 new ETPs across the year, divided into 181 ETFs and 130 other types of ETPs. This compares with 193 ETPs listed on the London Stock Exchange in 2020.
December saw the launch of the antidote to ESG with the BAD Investment Company’s first ETF, based on betting, alcohol and drugs.
November saw the distinctly cheeky launch of the SARK ETF from Matthew Tuttle’s Tuttle Capital Management, an ETF that tracks the inverse of the leading disruptive technology ARKK ETF on a single day.
European ETP trading exceeded EUR2 trillion in fragmented market write Athanasios Psarofagis, ETF analyst and Henry Jim who have produced a report on European ETP trading in 2021.
Vote now to nominate European ETP service providers for the 12th outing of the ETF Express European Awards.
European retail exchange Equiduct is expanding its launch into offering ETFs via its Apex platform with another 200 new products in the form of leveraged and inverse ETPs to be added by the end of the year.
US ETF issuer ProShares is set to launch the first bitcoin-linked ETF in the US on 19th October, with the ticker BITO.
AIH Fintech's Ahmed Imtiaz Habib writes that after the recent market correction, the burning question going through the minds of advisers and their clients was the average recovery period for the past 5 per cent, 10 per cent or even 15 per cent market corrections.
A new index provider, MerQube, has just gone through its Series A funding round led by J.P. Morgan.
Bailey McCann writes from New York that after eight years of attempts and with more than 30 active applications pending at the SEC, the conditions may be finally aligning for a bitcoin ETF - or at least something close to one.
