US-headquartered ETF provider Pacer ETFs has announced strong year-over-year asset growth of the Pacer Cash Cows Index ETF Series, which has seen inflows of approximately USD5.9 billion in assets across the series between May 24, 2021 and May 23, 2022.

A busy week of ETF launches brings us a definite trend towards active ETFs and bond ETFs.

Jason Xavier, Head of EMEA Capital Markets, Franklin Templeton, has noted ETF liquidity benefits that have survived the Russian invasion of Ukraine and market upset.

UK financial services firm Hargreaves Lansdown’s research team has expanded its coverage to include ETFs as well as trackers, and actively managed funds and investment trusts.

Todd Sohn, CMT of Strategas, a provider of institutional macro research, has commented on the mid May markets, writing that nearly 90 per cent of days YTD have seen the S&P 500 daily trading range exceed a 1 per cent threshold.

ETF veterans in the US, including tech enthusiasts, and data scientists from ETF Trends, ETF Database, Alerian, and S-Network Global Indexes have launched a new initiative, VettaFi. 

Fund manager, adviser and administrator SEI, with some USD1.3 trillion in assets under management, administration or advisement, is to enter the ETF industry, launching, in the US, a suite of four large-cap, factor-based strategies designed to support a goals-based wealth management approach.

Crypto ETP issuer 21Shares US Advisers LLC, an affiliated entity of 21Shares AG, has launched in the US market with two private funds, designed to provide accredited investors with broad exposure to both large-cap and mid-cap crypto assets. 

Despite the most challenging fixed income market in decades, BlackRock projects that global bond ETF assets under management (AUM) will triple to USD5 trillion by 2030.

Bailey McCann writes that a proposal from FINRA on so-called "complex products" has raised ire and questions among industry participants.