Chinese equities have emerged as a safe harbour from market volatility, posting a smaller loss of -10 per cent in comparison to the US at -20 per cent and Europe at -23 per cent respectively in the first quarter of 2020, according to Aneeka Gupta, Director, Research, WisdomTree.

Market volatility in early 2020 has seen close to USD1 billion flow into Innovator Capital Management’s range of Defined Outcome products, designed to offer investors exposure to an index with a cap and a downside buffer limiting potential losses to minus 9 per cent, 15 per cent or 30 per cent.

Automated trading platform Tradeweb today reported a record average daily volume (ADV) of USD1.0 trillion in aggregate for the month of March 2020, an increase of 41.5 per cent year over year.

GraniteShares seems blessed with an ability to live in interesting times. The firm launched its range of short and leveraged single stock daily ETPs on the London Stock Exchange last December, just as the UK was in the throes of Brexit news and facing a General Election.

Currency hedged ETFs and ETPs listed globally gathered net inflows of USD3.10billion during February bringing year to date net inflows to USD7.17 billion. 

Latest research from Cerulli Associates reports that more than USD775 billion in assets were wiped out of mutual fund strategies in the US during February, representing a single-month decline of nearly 5 per cent. 

Equity-based Smart Beta ETFs and ETPs listed globally gathered net inflows of USD3.40 billion during February bringing year-to-date net inflows to USD10.13 billion which is lower than the USD14.67 billion gathered at this point last year. 

Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) ETFs and ETPs listed globally gathered net inflows of USD7.54 billion during February, bringing year-to-date net inflows to USD14.30 billion which is higher than the USD2.40 billion gathered at this point last year.

ETFGI, a leading independent research and consultancy firm covering trends in the global ETFs/ETPs ecosystem, reported today that ETFs and ETPs listed in Japan gathered net inflows of USD4.68 billion during February, bringing year-to-date net inflows to USD8.82 billion. 

February’s choppy markets had an effect on European ETF inflows, according to the Lipper team at Refinitiv, with net inflows of EUR3.2 billion for the month, and assets under management in the European ETF industry (EUR839.9 billion) decreasing due to rough market conditions, the firm says.