Podcast with Dan Barnes and Deborah Fuhr having a discussion on Megatrends. 

Podcast with Dan Barnes and Deborah Fuhr discussing the latest issuance in the previous week.

2020 Ended with 8 trillion USD invested in ETFs globally, this figure is up from the 7 trillion USD invested by Q3.

908 new ETFs were issued while 493 closed, leaving 415 net new ETFs.  We saw growth in investing appetite and in trading with new Authorised  Participants (APs) and Market Makers as well the launch of new  Exchanges. Overall the ecosystem grew.

Buffer, stacked, Defined Outcome or ETFs that look like Structured Products featured in last week’s new listings according to ETF TV’s Dan Barnes conversation with Deborah Fuhr. ETFGI. The use of these products requires the investor to do their research particularly in the retail space.

There were 22 new exchange-traded funds (ETFs) issued over the last  week,  across the China, Israel and the US. Thematically, these were   reflective of recent investment and issuer trends, including disruptive  technology,  ESG and fixed income.

Notably many of these ETFs are actively managed, marking a new  battleground for issuers who cannot compete purely on low fee, high  scale with the larger firms. Deborah Fuhr and Dan Barnes discuss.

The past week has seen 18 new exchange traded funds (ETFs) issued  globally, with several on Korea Exchange (KRX), and two from Korean  issuer, Global X Funds, launched on the London Stock Exchange (LSE). The  SPAC & New Issue ETF issued on NYSE Arca represents an evolution of  investment in special purpose acquisition vehicles (SPACs).

With total ETF assets under management being close to $8 trillion by  the end of the year – barring anything unforeseen happening –  and flows  close to $700 billion which is a record, 2020 has been a year of many  breakthroughs, both positive and negative.

The growth in European ETFs has triggered an uptick in ETF options use  both for hedging and alpha generation. When set against credit default  swaps, credit default swap options and equity options, ETF options have  really deep liquidity which gives traders greater comfort in using them,  surprising some.

Podcast with Dan Barnes and Deborah Fuhr discussing some of the specific new listings and the trends focused on #ESG, disruptive technology, #thematic, fixed income, Tactical and Active.

In Europe, equity and commodity ETF options markets have successfully  built a depth of book supported by proxy trading, and a change in  regulation that has driven UCITS investors away from using US products  and towards European markets. Using calls and puts on low yield or even  non-yielding assets such as gold, is helping investors to realise  greater alpha via the options markets.

Last week saw several newly issued exchange-traded products (ETPs) in  the gold and crypto spaces, continuing trends that picked up earlier  this year. For investors, gold and crypto can be potentially used as  inflation hedges, and the increasingly sophisticated nature of the  products is creating interesting new opportunities for risk management  and investment.

Deborah Fuhr and Dan Barnes discuss the 21 new listings over the past week, and the themes we are seeing play out.