Natacha Blackman, iShares fixed Income Product Strategy, BlackRock and Smadar Shulman, Managing Director, Indices, IHS Markit share their views on the bond market and the advantages of fixed income ETFs.

A handful of the highest-raising investment funds are scooping the vast majority of all money invested in a month, raising concerns that large passive managers are becoming “too big to fail”. On average, 87 per cent of monthly net investment flows go toward the top twenty funds alone, according to exclusive data from EPFR. 

Alerian and S-Network Global Indexes have partnered with C8 Technologies, the first global marketplace for asset owners, funds, banks and index providers, to offer several unique and compelling strategies on its direct indexing platform.

The majority (75 per cent) of European institutional investors and wealth managers expect foreign investment into Chinese equities to increase in Q1 2021, compared to Q4 of 2020, while one fifth expect it to remain the same.

Infusive Asset Management has exceeded USD500 million in assets under management and its UCITS fund surpassed +100 per cent cumulative return since the company's launch in June 2016. 

Routemaster Capital has entered into a binding Letter of Intent (LOI) to acquire a 20 per cent equity interest in digital asset ETP issuer Valour Structured Products (Valour) from certain shareholders of Valour.

A survey commissioned by the exchange traded fund (ETF) and exchange traded product (ETP) sponsor WisdomTree, has revealed that European professional investors currently believe artificial intelligence (AI) presents the most compelling long-term thematic investment opportunity.

By Shane Coveney, Dillon Eustace – As European exchange traded products gather a greater share of asset flows and surpass USD1 trillion in assets under management, the industry’s appetite for new and innovative products continues to develop at a greater pace than ever. Historically, fragmentation in the European market has been a significant obstacle, leading to slow growth in the exchange traded fund (ETF) market in Europe.

New analysis from ETF provider GraniteShares, which offers a range of 3x short and 3x leveraged ETPs on popular UK and US stocks, reveals that so far this year, 31 dividend payments from FTSE 100 companies have been cancelled, 12 have been suspended and nine cut.

Komainu is to serve as the custodian for the digital assets held by CoinShres to physically back the XBT Provider family of ETPs.