Tag: ETF thematic investment

Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) start as ideas, often originating from financial problem-solving conversations. Creating better financial access remains the most significant driver of new ETFs, with ideas reflecting current markets or specific needs. For successful ETF creation, an idea should be original, yet simple, relevant, tradable, and backed by a united team. The best ETFs provide direct instead of indirect access and are often front-runners in their categories, with their assets sticking unless displaced by disruptive innovation.

Tech companies are significantly contributing to the S&P 500’s growth, leading the market by huge firms like Nvidia. However, the ALPS O’Shares Global Internet Giants ETF (OGIG) also highlights potential in other tech firms such as Duolingo, Trade Desk, and Adobe Inc. Although tech dominance in S&P 500 may pose risks, OGIG’s 30.1% YTD return offers a promising strategy, particularly with its focus on global tech.

KraneShares’ European Carbon Allowance ETF (KEUA), focused on the EU cap-and-trade carbon allowance program, has gained 7.5% over the past week. The fund, benchmarked to the IHS Markit Carbon EUA Index, has climbed 33.9% over a year, now managing $21 million in assets. The recent returns could be linked to the European Union’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism, which imposes costs on the carbon content of imported raw materials.

Swiss crypto investment boutique FiCAS has introduced an actively managed ETP on SIX Swiss Exchange, offering professional investors broad exposure to leading digital assets. The ETP aims to outperform the CCi30 Index by building a long-only portfolio of crypto assets selected based on a detailed selection process. Each ETP share is fully backed by a proportional number of digital assets, and the ETP may derive passive income through staking.

“Amid escalating geopolitical concerns, the digital transformation of warfare, and new cybersecurity threats, there is a growing market for militaries to adopt cutting-edge technologies,” said Pedro Palandrani, director of research

Furthermore, Enbridge’s gas distribution and storage business will be North America’s largest gas utility franchise, according to Enbridge. ENFR provides exposure to the Alerian Midstream Energy Select Index (AMEI), a composite

Within say a ten-year time horizon, AI has all sorts of capacities to change how we interact with digital systems, but is unlikely to change energy and materials markets much, other than giving us small or moderate efficiencies

Jeff Seeley, CEO of iM Global Partner Fund Management, said that PCGG was launched in response to growing client demand. iM Global Partner (iMGP) and Polen Capital have partnered to launch Polen’s first actively

While some have proven to be long-term trends, some have faded into the background. This note looks at four thematic trends post-lockdown including e-commerce, remote work, streaming media, and the metaverse.

The strategy, the KraneShares Global Luxury Index ETF (KLXY) joins the firm’s suite of China and climate-focused strategies. With its latest strategy launch, KraneShares has added a new global luxury ETF to its roster.

“Thematic investing is really focusing on identifying some of the transformational changes across industries and across society,” Lei Qiu, portfolio manager, disruptive innovation equities, for AB, said during VettaFi’s

CMCI seeks to track, before fees and expenses, the performance of the UBS Constant Maturity Commodity Total Return Index. Through a next generation, constant maturity approach, investors can minimize exposure to the front end

NVIDIA may continue to attain long-term value growth based on its fundamental focus on accelerated computing and its comprehensive approach to the data center ecosystem. Fundamentally, the company’s GPU technology has been instrumental in powering AI workloads, and the

While generative AI is capturing the bulk of AI-related headlines, language learning could have implications for assets such as QQQ and QQQM because this technology is likely to be data- and semiconductor-intensive. In