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NEWSLETTER | 12 Feb 2021

This week’s newsletter brings you all the numbers, with ETF inflows figures soaring across the board. Elisabeth Kashner from FactSet published her annual report on US ETFs for 2020 and observed that the year brought many types of new highs to the ETF market: record inflows, largest-ever interest in fixed income, and massive gains for commodities – especially gold. Looking forward, she notes a preference for cheaper funds and expects that to continue, observing that ‘the most precipitous price drops came in actively-managed funds.’

Other inflows reports come from the World Gold Council, which revealed gold ETFs had taken off again in January 2021, with USD1 billion in inflows; TrackInsight revealing ESG and active style dominated growth and Lyxor, which reported a bumper year for active equity ETFs across Europe.

We also took the moment to examine, with Ben Slavin from BNY Mellon, what impact the recent bout of day trader enthusiasm for GameStop and silver had had on ETPs. “From an ETF perspective it has been quite remarkable, but the macro headline is that in the markets where we have seen this volatility, ETFs have once again proved to be resilient including the ETFs who hold these stocks or the ETCs that hold silver,” Slavin says.

Canada featured again this week with an interview with Prerna Chandek, VP, ETF Product & Strategy, at Mackenzie Investments, who details her firm’s growth in ETFs and the domestic Canadian investor appetite for the products.

Finally, Amplify achieved something that we all just dream of doing – their Black Swan ETF went international. We have an interview with Amplify’s Christian Magoon.
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Beverly Chandler
Managing Editor, ETF Express

Companies in this issue
AdvisorShares
Agio Funds
Amplify ETFs
BNY Mellon
Claret Capital Partners
FactSet
Gabelli Funds
Global X
Hashdex
LGIM
Lyxor
Mackenzie Investments
TrackInsight
World Gold Council

SIX launches new Swiss bond and equity market ESG indices

Thu | 11 Feb 2021, 13:49

SIX has launched new ESG indices for the Swiss equity and bond markets.

Thu | 11 Feb 2021, 13:49

Investing in market segments that support companies directly implementing a transition to a low carbon economy offers investors a unique way to play the climate change theme, according to impact fintech business, iClima Earth.

Thu | 11 Feb 2021, 13:49

Since Tesla’s USD1.5 billion purchase of bitcoin on Monday this week, between 8 and 9 February (Monday and Tuesday), USD171.523 million was traded in BTCetc Bitcoin Exchange Traded Crypto (ticker BTCE), a leading Bitcoin ETP, which is listed on Deutsche Boerse and the SIX stock exchanges and passported for sale across Europe.

Thu | 11 Feb 2021, 13:49

Natixis Investment Managers has received approval from the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) for the use of custom baskets in actively managed semi-transparent exchange-traded funds (ETFs) that follow the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE)’s Proxy Portfolio Methodology approach.

Thu | 11 Feb 2021, 13:49

Founded in Canada in 1967, Mackenzie Investments is a household name in the country and has since spread across the world, amassing some CAD186 billion in assets.

Thu | 11 Feb 2021, 13:49

Elisabeth Kashner (pictured), FactSet’s director of ETF strategy, writes that despite 2020’s pandemic, civil unrest, and market gyrations, assets flowed into US-domiciled ETFs at record levels.

ETFS buys ETF.com

Thu | 11 Feb 2021, 13:49

ETFS Capital, the ETF investment company chaired by ETF industry veteran Graham Tuckwell, has acquired the business of ETF.com from Cboe Global Markets (Cboe).

Thu | 11 Feb 2021, 13:49

The extraordinary trading scenarios from last week and this, which saw stocks such as the US’s GameStop, AMC and the physical asset, silver, caught in the cross hairs of the Reddit trading community and experience extreme volatility, has had an effect on ETFs.

Thu | 11 Feb 2021, 13:49

Gold-backed ETFs saw inflows of USD1 billion or 13.8 tonnes (t) in January, after ending 2020 with two consecutive months of outflows in November and December, according to new data released today by the World Gold Council.

Thu | 11 Feb 2021, 13:49

Data from TrackInsight, the ETF analysis platform, shows that ETFs continued their impressive growth streak over January 2020, reaching a new record high of USD7.8 trillion in assets under management.

Thu | 11 Feb 2021, 13:49

Lyxor ETF Research finds that 2020 was a bumper year for active equity funds across Europe, while ESG active funds posted strong results across the board.

Thu | 11 Feb 2021, 13:49

Following up on what now appears to have been a timely launch of its first BlackSwan ETF in 2018, Amplify ETFs has launched the international version, the Amplify BlackSwan ISWN ETF (ISWN).

Global ETF launches 04-11.02.21

Thu | 11 Feb 2021, 13:49

This week's new launches include not one, but two funds focused on Nasdaq-listed companies – Lyxor International Asset Management's Lyxor Nasdaq-100 UCITS ETF - Daily Hedged to EUR on Xetra and Börse Frankfurt, and Agio Funds TFI's Beta ETF Nasdaq-100 PLN-Hedged, on the Warsaw Stock Exchange (GPW). Elsewhere, LGIM launched what it says is the first pure hydrogen economy ETF in Europe, Brazilian asset manager Hashdex debuted a cryptocurrency fund, and AdvisorShares launched an actively-managed, hedged equity ETF. Global X meanwhile listed two new thematic ETFs focused on video gaming and esports and telemedicine and digital health.