| |  | | NEWSLETTER | 31 Jan 2020 |
 | | Birthday celebrations for Deutsche Börse and ETF news from Florida
The top story this week is Jan Wagner’s interview with Stephan Kraus, head of ETFs at the Exchange. This coming April, German stock exchange operator Deutsche Börse will celebrate the 20th anniversary of its ETF business. Back in April 2000, Deutsche Börse was the first European exchange to list ETFs – in that case a fund that tracked the EuroStoxx 50 and one that tracked the Stoxx 50 Europe. As Wagner reports, nearly 20 years and two market crashes later, there are 1,507 ETFs listed on Deutsche Börse’s Xetra platform – worthy.
The week in the ETF world was dominated by the InsideETFs conference in Florida with a number of firms taking the opportunity to display their wares within the ETF space. We have an interview with SEI’s John Alshefski, Senior Vice President and Managing Director and Head of SEI’s Traditional business within the Investment Manager Services division, and his colleague Rob Owens explaining how the firm is extending its USD75 billion Advisors’ Inner Circle (AIC) platform to incorporate ETFs within its turnkey series trust operational infrastructure.
We also have the seventh annual ETF survey from BBH which finds ETFs increasingly at the centre of investor portfolios; news from Qontigo, part of Deutsche Börse Group, which has launched the STOXX Factor Index suite. More news comes from Old Mission, which has announced it is to enter into offering institutional ETF services and news of an update of its offering from ETFLogic. Finally, DWS issued a short note announcing that its emerging market ETF has gone over EUR3 billion in assets.
Beverly Chandler
Managing Editor, ETF Express
Companies in this issue
Amundi
BBH
CIBC
Deutsche Börse
DWS
ETFLogic
Invesco
L&G
Old Mission
Qontigo
SEI
| | | | CoinShares adds Head of Product for ETP business | | Thu | 30 Jan 2020, 12:59 | | Digital asset manager CoinShares has appointed Townsend Lansing as Head of Product for the group’s exchange traded product (ETP) business, which trades under the XBT Provider brand. |
| | | | | | | | SEI gears up for non or semi-transparent ETFs | | Thu | 30 Jan 2020, 12:59 | | Commenting on the new non-transparent or semi-transparent ETFs expected to launch soon in the US, Rob Owens, Managing Director and Head of Client Service for Traditional Business within SEI’s Investment Manager Services division, says that it is extending its Advisors’ Inner Circle (AIC) platform to incorporate ETFs within its turnkey series trust operational infrastructure. |
| | | | Qontigo launches STOXX Factor Index Suite | | Thu | 30 Jan 2020, 12:59 | | Qontigo, part of Deutsche Börse Group, has launched the STOXX Factor Index suite, designed to deliver more clarity to the market for factor investors by relying on the analytics of Axioma Factor Risk Models. |
| | | | Old Mission expands to offer institutional services | | Thu | 30 Jan 2020, 12:59 | | Market maker Old Mission has obtained a brokerage license modification for its Old Mission Markets’ subsidiary from Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, which will enable Old Mission Markets to begin offering trading services directly to buy-side institutions and ETF issuers later this year, complementing the firm’s existing market making business conducted through the Old Mission Capital broker-dealer. |
| | | | Deutsche Börse employs business incentives to build ETF book | | Thu | 30 Jan 2020, 12:59 | | By Jan Wagner – As Deutsche Börse prepares to celebrate the 20th anniversary of its ETF business, Stephan Kraus, head of ETFs, talks about the segment’s huge growth, the trend toward ESG-themed products and why the exchange is trying to persuade German savers to consider ETFs as an investment alternative… |
| | | | | | | | DWS’s EM ETF hits EUR3bn in assets | | Thu | 30 Jan 2020, 12:59 | | Simon Klein, DWS’s head of passive sales, Europe and Asia-Pacific, has confirmed that the Xtrackers MSCI Emerging Markets UCITS ETF has just broken through EUR3 billion in assets under management. |
| | | | Global ETF launches 23-30.01.20 | | Thu | 30 Jan 2020, 12:59 | | The pick of this week's new ETF launches is a suite of three liquid alternative funds from CI which employ hedge fund-like investment strategies including short-selling and leverage. Amundi meanwhile, launched ten new funds on Xetra, a mix of equity and bond index ETFs, while the latest low-cost offering from Invesco provides exposure to the US Treasury Bon market. |
| | | | | | | | |  | | VanEck ups its game in a world where stock picking is harder than rocket science By Allan Lane, Algo-Chain – Under the spotlight today is VanEck's Vectors Video Gaming and eSports UCITS ETF which provides investors with a one-click opportunity to access the brave new world of competitive video gaming. As a professional player one can compete for prize money that even Tiger Woods would be proud to win, and partly explains why the early revenue growth has been close to 40 per cent since 2015. |
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