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NEWSLETTER | 30 Oct 2020

Quandl’s Abraham Thomas comments on the improving standardisation of data across the ETF industry in an interview in this week’s ETF Express newsletter. “Good behaviour and best practices are always rewarded,” he says.

Shelly Antoniewicz from the Investment Company Institute has also been looking at data and the Institute’s paper, published this week, studies how ETFs behaved during the market volatility of earlier this year. ETFs get a gold star, having proved their resilience during a real life stress test.

And more figures, this time from Lyxor, and specifically more ESG figures which reveal September ETF inflows saw ESG ETFs continuing their strong trend, setting a record for assets gathered in a month (EUR3.9 billion). Cerulli Associates also found that climate linked factors dominate ETF investor demand.

ESG was just one of the many subjects covered by etfLIVE North America, our digital summit held over three days last week. We have a brief summary of the event for you, and the films of the sessions which featured many knowledgeable and inspirational speakers will be available on our site shortly.

Beverly Chandler
Managing Editor, ETF Express

Companies in this issue
Amundi
Cerulli Associates
Investment Company Institute
Lyxor
Quandl
SSGA
Tabula Investment Management

Active ETF and ETP assets reached new record high of USD228.41bn at the end of Q3 2020

Thu | 29 Oct 2020, 14:23

Active ETFs and ETPs gathered net inflows of USD8.24 billion during September, bringing year-to-date net inflows to a record USD51.48 billion which is significantly more than the USD29.41 billion gathered through Q3 2019 as well as the USD42.10 billion gathered in all of 2019.

Thu | 29 Oct 2020, 14:23

ETFs are justly celebrated for their transparency but Abraham Thomas, Chief Data Officer and Co-Founder of Quandl believes that it can be difficult for investors to view or trust underlying ETF holdings across their entire portfolio.

Thu | 29 Oct 2020, 14:23

Despite unprecedented market volatility in March 2020, the structures for creating, redeeming, and trading shares of ETFs – including ETF issuers, authorised participants (APs), and ETF liquidity providers – proved their resilience, according to a new paper on the Covid-19 market crisis from the Investment Company Institute (ICI) entitled “Experiences of US Exchange-Traded Funds During the Covid-19 Crisis.”

Thu | 29 Oct 2020, 14:23

European investors are prioritising climate-linked products in an ETF format, according to Cerulli Associates. Targeting portfolio holdings that focus on minimising carbon usage or being free from fossil fuels is set to be the most popular approach to incorporate ESG factors into ETFs, the firm says, with 86 per cent of the ETF issuers in Europe that responded to a survey believing it will be the case.

Thu | 29 Oct 2020, 14:23

Lyxor ETF have released their latest Money Monitor report, which provides an analysis of flows in European open-ended funds and ETFs. The report also looks at the main investment trends observed over the past month.

Global ETF launches 22-29.10.20

Thu | 29 Oct 2020, 14:23

In another quiet week for new ETF launches, Tabula has debuted a new thematic fund which it says is the first ETF to provide exposure to both realised and expected inflation in a single index. Elsewhere, Amundi launched a new fund offering access to Japanese equities with a focus on ESG, while a brace of new ETFs from SSGA provide investors with access to corporate bonds and currency-hedged global shares.

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