The growth of the global exchange traded fund business is increasing the complexity of FX hedging for asset managers, in terms of their overall international business and for specific FX-hedged products. Balancing FX overlay programmes with FX swaps, forward and spot trades to hedge risk against the trading of ETF…
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Investments in sustainable ETFs have increased urgency
Appetite for environmental, social and governance (ESG) investment is not only increasing but becoming more urgent. This is driven by several factors, which includes retail appetite responding to COVID 19 and environmental concerns, regulations which are cementing benchmarks and transparency, and the longer-term trend of an industry shift to responsible…
Assets invested in ETFs and ETPs break $7 trillion milestone
Deborah Fuhr of ETFGI discusses with Dan Barnes the trends in the ETF industry based on ETFGI’s August research. August marked the 15th month of net inflows. ETFs and ETPs listed globally gathered net inflows of $55.18 billion taking year-to-date net inflows to $428 billion which is significantly higher than the US$272 billion gathered…