Joining the panel on trends and thematic investing in ETFs at this year’s etfLIVE event is Oliver Smith, investment director at multi-family office Sandaire.

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.

Lyxor ETF has made a full range of ETFs designed to counter climate change available to investors. 

By Allan Lane, Algo-Chain – During a week when the Dow Jones Industrial Average surged 11.4 per cent, the largest one day increase since 1933, this news seemed at odds with some of the more harrowing coronavirus statistics that hit the airwaves by the time US markets closed.

With the global coronavirus crisis still causing challenges for the global financial sector, there’s just a single ETF launch to report on this week, a new iShares ETF from BlackRock on Xetra and Börse Frankfurt providing investors with access to corporate bonds with a focus on sustainability. 

BlackRock has launched a new iShares ETF on Xetra and Börse Frankfurt providing access to corporate bonds with a focus on sustainability.

The KMEFIC FTSE Kuwait Equity ETF (KUW8) underwent its quarterly re-balance on 19 March 2020, resulting in one addition and one deletion.

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. 

Read all about the winners in the ETF Express 2020 European awards, a year that marks the 10th anniversary of our awards, the 30th birthday of ETFs overall, and the 20th birthday of European ETFs. 

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.