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…
Timely insights for institutional investors and financial advisors from across the global ETF ecosystem
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…
Jim Ross tackles some of the ETF industry’s biggest issues
Industry veteran Jim Ross, formerly executive vice president and chairman of the Global SPDR Business at State Street Global Advisors gives his assessment of the exchange traded fund industry today. In a wide ranging discussion that captures active versus passive investing; the development of non-transparent ETFs and the importance of…