A flurry of launch activity from VanEck this week brought us their space and future of food ETFs, plus their new CLO ETF, while the crypto winter, as the downturn in crypto asset prices is being called, brought a special crypto winter suite from 21Shares.
Jacobi Asset Management has announced the launch of the Jacobi Bitcoin ETF which will be listing on Euronext Amsterdam, from July.
Asset manager VanEck has listed the VanEck Space Innovators UCITS ETF on London Stock Exchange and Deutsche Börse Xetra.
Crypto issuer has announced its Crypto Winter Suite – a set of products designed to help investors weather the bear market. The first product introduced in the suite is the 21Shares Bitcoin Core ETP (CBTC), which launched today on SIX Swiss Exchange.
Franklin Templeton has announced the launch of its new Catholic Principles Emerging Markets Sovereign Debt UCITS ETF within its Franklin LibertySharesTM range, the first of its kind in the European market. This launch brings the number of article 8 and 9 EU SFDR compliant strategies to seven in the range.
Romain Thomas writes from Paris that AXA Investment Managers (AXA IM), the asset management subsidiary of the French insurer Axa, is working on its return to the universe of listed index funds (ETFs) in Europe.
Despite market conditions, cryptocurrency products continue to dominate launches with ProShares launching a US Short Bitcoin-Linked ETF this week, and Osprey launching a US publicly traded Solana Fund.
EFAMA writes that the 2022 Fact Book provides an in-depth analysis of trends in the European fund industry, with an emphasis on what happened in 2021. It also includes an extensive overview of the regulatory developments across 28 European countries and a wealth of data.
Franklin Templeton arrived in the ETF arena relatively recently, having established its first ETFs in 2016 globally and launched its first European products in 2017.
ETFs in Europe gathered net inflows of USD1.87 billion during May, bringing year-to-date net inflows to USD68.69 billion.