Italian investment bank Mediobanca recently became the first client to implement Bloomberg’s Direct Order Routing (DOR) solution for ETFs, enabling it to automate their trading process.

Constituents of the HAN-GINS Indxx Healthcare Innovation UCITS ETF (WELL) continue to work at the forefront of the Covid-19 pandemic. Biotech constituents of the WELL innovative healthcare ETF, are leading vaccine research, as well as medical device constituents being amongst the biggest suppliers of PPE materials, ventilators and other respiratory equipment.

21Shares, an issuer of crypto Exchange Traded Products (ETP), is bolstering its offering to Swedish and Scandinavian investors via Nordnet Bank’s digital platform for savings and investments.

7IM has appointed Adrian Grace as Chairman of its board, replacing Ian Owen who steps down from the role after approaching 5 years.

FTSE Russell has been selected by CSOP Asset Management (CSOP) as the index provider for its ICBC CSOP FTSE Chinese Government Bond Index ETF. The ETF is being launched by CSOP in partnership with ICBC Asset Management. 

CI Financial Corp's (CI) US affiliate Cabana Asset Management (Cabana) has launched a USD1 billion lineup of exchange-traded funds using Cabana's innovative and proven target drawdown investment strategy.

“It’s a marathon not a sprint,” says Nick Elward (pictured), SVP, Head of Institutional Product and ETFs at Natixis which has just announced the launch of three semi-transparent ETFs. The process of launching them started in 2017, they got the approval in 2019 and are launching those ETFs on 17 September.

A real mixed bag of new ETFs this week includes Innovator Capital Management’s new Stacker funds, the world’s first ETFs to offer a multiple exposure on the upside, to a cap, with a single exposure to the downside, plus a new Tabula fund designed to take advantage of the steepness in investment grade credit curves. We also have several new Xtrackers funds from DWS, three additions to Invesco’s BulletShares suite, as Nasdaq next 50 ETF from VictoryShares, plus a new ‘all-in-one’ retirement ETF from Vanguards based on eight existing equity and fixed income funds.

Amundi reports that interest in global ETFs remained buoyant in August with investments increasing by EUR50.0 billion. Investors allocated EUR22.7 billion to shares, as the appetite for riskier assets has continued to strengthen, Amundi says.

Invesco, a global provider of exchange-traded funds (ETFs), has added three new ETFs to the BulletShares ETF suite, which offers investors access to customised bond maturities in a transparent1 ETF structure.