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NEWSLETTER | 7 Feb 2020  
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All Rize for a new ETF provider

Our top piece this week is an interview with the team behind the newest ETF provider on the block, Rize ETF, launched by the team behind ETF Securities’ Canvas, that brought the first purpose-built thematic ETFs in robotics and cybersecurity to Europe. ETFs that now each have assets of over GBP1 billion. The new firm plans to launch two new thematic products in the coming weeks.

We also have a revisit to the world of cryptocurrencies, ETPs and the perennial attempt to get cryptos into ETFs. The ETP route seems to work pretty well with new proponents joining the campaign with ever more inventive structures. This feature on the whole subject contains comments and news from Amun, Grayscale, CoinShares (who have just hired ETF veteran Townsend Lansing) WisdomTree and Stack.

Other news this week is that Amundi had a very successful 2019 with record asset raisings, while the new interesting kid on the block, the semi-transparent ETF, gets taken out and examined by those clever people at Cerulli.

We also have a note on Coronavirus which is proving more contagious but less deadly than other virus outbreaks. ‘What effect will it have on portfolios?’asks factor analysts Style Analytics.

Beverly Chandler
Managing Editor, ETF Express

Companies in this issue

Amun
Amundi
Cerulli Associates
CoinShares
First Trust
Grayscale
KraneShares
Lyxor
Rize ETF
Stack
Style Analytics
Vanguard
WisdomTree


 
Truss Edge's Safari STP platform now offers trade entry functionality and tax reporting for ETFs
Fri | 7 Feb 2020, 07:52
Truss Edge's Safari STP platform has been updated to include a number of new features providing trade entry and tax exporting functionality for ETF managers.
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IHS Markit and MSCI establish ESG index collaboration
Fri | 7 Feb 2020, 07:52
IHS Markit, a specialist in critical information, analytics and solutions, is teaming with MSCI to enable its Environmental Social and Governance (ESG) rating and research data to be applied in the broad range of IHS Markit’s fixed income and credit indices.
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Banca Consulia uses liquid ETFs to replicate hedge fund risk-return profiles
Fri | 7 Feb 2020, 07:52
Banca Consulia has launched a discretionary mandate, with MDOTM as advisor, that replicates the risk-return profile of Hedge Funds with liquid ETFs.
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Rize up for thematic ETFs
Fri | 7 Feb 2020, 07:52
Europe has its first self-styled specialist thematic ETF issuer, Rize ETF, launched by the team behind Canvas, that brought the first purpose-built thematic ETFs to Europe. Rize ETF will focus on thematic ETFs, offering investors exposure to emerging megatrends.
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Style Analytics examines the financial impact of the coronavirus
Fri | 7 Feb 2020, 07:52
Style Analytics, a provider of factor analytics to the asset management industry, has examined the potential effects of the coronavirus outbreak on portfolios.
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Cerulli comments on non-transparent ETFs
Fri | 7 Feb 2020, 07:52
The latest report from Cerulli Associates finds that ETF assets totalled just more than USD4.4 trillion, compared with the ETFGI total of over USD6 trillion. 
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2019 was bumper year for Amundi ETF
Fri | 7 Feb 2020, 07:52
Amundi ETF ended 2019 with EUR55 billion in assets under management. The firm claims that amid the fast-paced growth of the European ETF market over the last three years, it has exceeded the market’s growth rate during the period, and achieved the highest growth rate among the top-five European ETF providers.
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Cryptocurrencies, blockchain and ETFs – an update
Fri | 7 Feb 2020, 07:52
News came last week that Swiss-based Amun had launched the 21Shares Short Bitcoin ETP (SBTC) on the Swiss Stock Exchange (SIX). This is an ETP which tracks the opposite performance of bitcoin to give investors access to hedging and trading potentials within bitcoin price movements, whichever direction they are going.
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Global ETF launches 30.01-06.02.20
Fri | 7 Feb 2020, 07:52
This week’s new ETF launches include a couple of offerings for bond investors with the debut of a new short-term US government bond fund from Invesco, and a new green bond ETF from Lyxor, both on Xetra. Elsewhere, First Trust launched a new merger arbitrage fund, plus the First Trust Capital Strength UCITS ETF, which is based on one of the company’s best-selling US strategies…
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It’s all about Social Responsibility

Scott McKenna (pictured), director, ETFLogic, reports from the US from the latest Inside ETFs conference…

 
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