Pacer ETFs (Pacer), an ETF provider that offers strategy-driven, rules-based ETFs, has passed USD7 billion in assets under management (AUM).

Flows into global Exchange Traded Products (ETPs) dropped for a second consecutive month, with USD95.6 billion added in May, down from USD105.4 billion in April and a record USD136.3 billion in March, according to the latest Global ETP Flows report from BlackRock.

Global gold-backed ETFs added 61.3t (USD3.4 billion, 1.7 per cent AUM) in May, reversing three straight months of net outflows according to new data released today by the World Gold Council. 

Pacer ETFs' (Pacer)Pacer Cash Cows Index ETF Series (Cash Cows series) has surpassed USD1 billion in assets under management. 

ETF Managers Group (ETFMG) first ETF, the ETFMG Prime Junior Silver Miners ETF (SILJ), has exceeded a significant milestone of USD1 billion in assets under management (AUM).

This week, the hedge fund trade association, AIMA, published its third annual report on crypto hedge funds, which revealed that they returned, on average, an astonishing 128 per cent in 2020, against 30 per cent in 2019. 

May you live in interesting times is, famously, a curse, but a low volatility ETF from Invesco, the S&P 500 Low Volatility ETF (SPLV), has sailed through some 10 years of ‘interesting times’, and its performance provides an interesting overview of market volatility over that period, and along with its higher volatility sibling, SPHB, might even provide a little opportunity to forecast what lies ahead. 

CoinShares' exchange traded products (ETPs) reached record trading volumes on Wednesday, 19 May, 2021. CoinShares has two ETP platforms, XBT Provider, with USD3.9 billion in AUM, and the newly launched CoinShares Physical platform, with USD367 million in AUM.

Lyxor ETF’s Money Monitor for April 2021 reveals that despite solid asset accumulation in April across equity funds and ETFs, concerns over reflationary pressures and higher government bond yields weighed further on the market momentum.  

European ETF promoters in Europe experienced estimated net inflows of EUR16.3 billion for April, according to Lipper data, with assets under management in the European ETF industry hitting a new all-time high (EUR1,124.0 billion) at the end of April 2021.