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| ETFs in Europe hit 20 during exciting times
This bumper issue of features from ETF Express comes due to the extended Easter holiday last weekend, but also because there is so much to write about in the ETF world at the moment.
The first interviews are with a firm that pushes the envelope in ETFs, Innovator, which has raised close to another USD1 billion in its range of defined outcome ETFs. Read how the firm has traded through the early 2020’s volatile markets.
Volatile markets have kept Tradeweb busy. The automated ETF trading platform has seen record volumes this year, with March figures showing 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.
We also have interviews with Bloomberg’s Ben Morris, ETF Product Manager, who tells ETF Express about the firm’s BSKT offering, and a Q&A comment from EMEA head of iShares, Stephen Cohen on the 20th anniversary of ETFs in Europe. Allan Lane, from Algo-Chain, our regular columnist also celebrates the 20th anniversary in his piece this week – an excellent read from someone who has seen our industry evolve over the years.
Finally, we went in search of sectors that perform when everyone is stuck at home – I bring you JP Lee, Product Manager with VanEck, who talks us through ESPO, the firm’s online gaming and esports ETF.
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Beverly Chandler Managing Editor, ETF Express
Companies in this issue
BlackRock
Bloomberg
BNY Mellon
ETFMG
First Trust
Innovator Capital Management
Invesco
iShares
Morningstar
Tradeweb VanEck
Wedbush
WisdomTree
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| BNY Mellon expands ETF relationship with USCF | | Thu | 16 Apr 2020, 14:35 | | BNY Mellon has been appointed by United States Commodity Funds (USCF) to provide ETF services — including serving as its custodian, fund accountant and administrator and transfer agent. The conversion was completed on 1 April. |
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| Market volatility knocks ESG off top concern for indexers | | Thu | 16 Apr 2020, 14:35 | | The index world has been front and centre in a lot of recent stories about volatility, says Rick Redding (pictured), CEO of the Index Industry Association. He points to illiquidity in bond markets which has driven investors to find liquidity in fixed income ETFs instead. |
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| March ETP figures from BlackRock reveal positive inflows | | Thu | 16 Apr 2020, 14:35 | | BlackRock writes that despite elevated market volatility off the back of coronavirus related shutdowns, global ETP flows remained positive in March (USD17.2 billion) albeit at the lowest level since August 2019. |
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| Bloomberg’s ETF offering has inbuilt ubiquity | | Thu | 16 Apr 2020, 14:35 | | Building on the ubiquity of the Bloomberg screen, which is on pretty much every financial professional’s desk, is BSKT, the firm’s offering for the creation and redemption of ETFs, launched five years ago. Ben Morris, Bloomberg ETF Product Manager, was a client of the offering and joined the firm three years ago to become part of the index product team. |
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| Defined outcome ETFs from Innovator see increased inflows | | Thu | 16 Apr 2020, 14:35 | | 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. |
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| Tradeweb reports huge increases in volumes in March | | Thu | 16 Apr 2020, 14:35 | | 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. |
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| Global ETF launches 02-16.04.20 | | Thu | 16 Apr 2020, 14:35 | | With two weeks of new launches to cover given last week’s Easter break, a mixed bag of newcomers includes two bond-focussed offerings from Inveso – a short-dated US government bond fund and a GBP corporate bonds ETF. Elsewhere, BNY Mellon debuted a suite of eight funds designed to cover the core exposures in a typical asset allocation strategy, while ETFMG and Wedbush teamed up to debut a new fund covering the cloud computing sector. |
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