Columbia Threadneedle’s Diversified Fixed Income Allocation ETF (DIAL), a strategic beta multi-sector fixed income ETF, has seen its assets rise to over USD1 billion, with USD500 million of net new inflows in the past six months, following its three-year anniversary in October 2020. 

The Digital Infrastructure and Connectivity UCITS ETF (DIGI) is highlighting how the rapid global growth in Advanced Learning Technology is being accelerated by the Covid-19 lockdown switch to remote learning.

WisdomTree has launched an ETF that allows investors to access the evolving asset class of European Union (EU) bonds. 

Despite unprecedented market volatility in March 2020, the structures for creating, redeeming, and trading shares of ETFs – including ETF issuers, authorised participants (APs), and ETF liquidity providers – proved their resilience, according to a new paper on the Covid-19 market crisis from the Investment Company Institute (ICI) entitled “Experiences of US Exchange-Traded Funds During the Covid-19 Crisis.”

By Kieran Fox, Irish Funds – We are all well aware of the human and public health cost which Covid-19 has had since March of this year when its impact reverberated around the globe. Although general consensus is that we still have some way to go until there is a vaccine or other resolution to the pandemic, central banks and regulators are now beginning to look into the effect the crisis had on capital markets during the early days of its impact and seeking to learn lessons from this. 

BTIG extends WFH policy to the end of 2020BTIG staff are to continue to work from home (WFH) until the end of 2020.

Despite being the launch pad for the Covid-19 pandemic that has swept the world and changed it forever, China as an investment destination has kept up in the performance stakes, both in terms of offering performance to external investors and in growing its own domestic asset base.

While many investors believe the recent recovery in stock markets could be built on shaky foundations, the bounce back is similar to those seen in the wake of previous pandemics, says ETF provider GraniteShares.

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.

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.