| | The elephant in the room
I have decided not to mention the large grey beast, with a trunk, that is lurking in the corner. This week’s newsletter’s editorial will be virus free. We start with an interview with Michael Loukas, CEO of TrueMark, a new ETF provider and one that believes in active management within the traditional ETF structure. One of their first products is ECOZ, sub-advised by Purview Investment’s Dr Linda Zhang, ETF industry veteran and co-founder of Women in ETFs.
Other stories this week come from etfLIVE Europe's Great Debate with interviews with our two proposers of the motion that ETFs will cause systemic collapse in the markets. The markets have somewhat overtaken these two interviewees, who stated their cases clearly a couple of weeks ago, but BlondeMoney’s Helen Thomas and Louis Gargour from LNG Capital have good points to make.
And tallkng of etfLive Europe, it's going digital… In light of the global Covid-19 pandemic, ETF Express will be moving some of its physical events online, starting with etfLIVE Europe on 20 May. Expect an informative, engaging, online version of Europe's No1 ETF event. Watch this space!
Beverly Chandler
Managing Editor, ETF Express
Companies in this issue
BlackRock
BlondeMoney
LNG Capital
Purview Investment
TrueMark
| | | | | | Blondemoney CEO steps into ETF debate | | Thu | 19 Mar 2020, 13:05 | | Helen Thomas, CEO of financial consultancy Blondemoney, has stepped bravely into the role of being the second proposer in the debate at the heart of the etfLIVE Europe event ETF Express is hosting in May this year. |
| | | | Volatility affected ETF assets in February, says Refinitiv | | Thu | 19 Mar 2020, 13:05 | | February’s choppy markets had an effect on European ETF inflows, according to the Lipper team at Refinitiv, with net inflows of EUR3.2 billion for the month, and assets under management in the European ETF industry (EUR839.9 billion) decreasing due to rough market conditions, the firm says. |
| | | | | | | | ETF veteran behind TrueMark’s ESG launch | | Thu | 19 Mar 2020, 13:05 | | A belief in active management within the traditional ETF structure lies behind the recent launch of TrueMark, a new ETF provider which has launched with two funds, LERNZ, focused on artificial intelligence (AI), and ECOZ, the ESG markets. |
| | | | Global ETF launches 12-19.03.20 | | Thu | 19 Mar 2020, 13:05 | | In a quiet week for ETF launches BlackRock kept things ticking over with the debut of not one fund, but a suite of three three ultrashort bond environmental, social and governance products. The new funds are all versions of existing iShares UCITS ETFs but with revised ESG criteria which explicitly excludes issuers involved in controversial weapons, nuclear weapons, conventional weapons, civilian firearms, tobacco, adult entertainment, alcohol, gambling, nuclear power, genetically modified organisms, oil sands and thermal coal… |
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