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Solactive and CEPRES Partner to Launch Solactive CEPRES US Private Equity Replicator Index

April 4, 2024--Solactive, a global leading index provider, and CEPRES, a leading Private Equity data provider, have established a partnership for the first time to introduce the Solactive CEPRES US Private Equity Replicator Index. This novel index offers exposure to North American-focused buyout funds by mirroring their performances with publicly listed securities from the Solactive GBS United States 500 universe

It is aligned with the industry distribution of Net Asset Values (NAV) of Private Equity (PE) investments at a deal/portfolio company level in the respective market.

Timo Pfeiffer, Chief Markets Officer at Solactive, stated: "We are thrilled to collaborate with CEPRES on this first of many ventures, capitalizing on their expertise in private equity data networks alongside our proficiency in index creation to introduce this pioneering product."

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Source: Solactive AG


Strategas Lists SAMM, a Tactical ETF with an Active Approach to Macro & Momentum Investing

April 4, 2024---Strategas Macro Momentum ETF (SAMM) is the latest offering in a suite of active ETFs that leverage the Firm's top-ranked macro and technical research
Actively managed, investing in 20 to 50 U.S. listed securities exhibiting strong technical, momentum, and relative strength characteristics

Constituents sourced from up and down the capitalization scale and across sectors, but always with emphasis on embracing the market's leadership corners
When market conditions demand a more defensive posture, positions in Treasury ETFs or Gold ETPs can be held to mitigate portfolio and macro risk.

Strategas Asset Management, LLC (Strategas), the investment advisory arm of one of the world's leading institutional macro research providers, Strategas Securities, LLC (STS), today launched Strategas Macro Momentum ETF (NYSE Arca: SAMM), its third in a suite of thematic, actively managed ETFs. Strategas' full suite of ETFs turns thematic ideas into investable solutions.

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Source: Strategas Securities, LLC


S&P 500 trackers hit a record 27% of 2023 equity ETF flows

April 2, 2024--Rise of Magnificent Seven helped to push flows to ETFs tracking the blue-chip index to an all-time high of $137bn
Wall Street's blue-chip S&P 500 index captured its highest share of global equity exchange traded fund flows for at least a decade last year, as the rise of the so-called Magnificent Seven reshaped benchmarks worldwide.

ETFs tracking the S&P 500 vacuumed up a record $137bn in net terms last year, according to data from Vanguard, surpassing the previous peak of $119bn in 2021.

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Source: ft.com


Leading healthcare fund manager RA Capital launches biotech ETFs

April 1, 2024--As part of a systematic growth strategy aimed at attracting capital to the biotechnology sector, RA Capital Management, LP, is announcing the launch of a set of Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) to be marketed to discerning retail and institutional investors.

The first ETF that RA Capital will begin trading today is RABB (RA Best Biotech ETF). This fund is composed of what RA Capital has termed "core" development-stage biotech companies held by at least one biotech specialist peer fund.

In 2023, Core biotech stocks dramatically outperformed those not owned by specialists (known as "peripheral" stocks) and represented 100% of the holdings of healthcare specialists. Partially explaining that outperformance is the fact that over 98% of M&A dollars flowed to Core biotechs.

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Source: RA Capital Management, LP


FusionIQ Launches FIQ Market One, Disrupting Traditional Investment Marketplaces

March 27, 2024--Digital market to provide access to a diverse array of investment opportunities through unified, white-labeled client and advisor portals
FusionIQ, a leader in the delivery of cloud-based wealth management solutions with their all-in-one digital platform for financial advisors and institutions, today announced the launch of its groundbreaking FIQ Market One on the FusionIQ One platform.

The innovative product marks a significant shift in the wealth management industry, offering a comprehensive investment solution for investors and advisors.

FIQ Market One transforms the landscape of wealth management, providing access to a diverse array of investment opportunities, including digital assets, special purpose vehicles (SPVs), alternative funds, private investments, and exchange-traded funds (ETFs) in a single market. Through white-labeled, unified advisor and client portals, investors can seamlessly navigate and invest in these assets, revolutionizing the traditional investment model.

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Source: FusionIQ


ETF Architect Announces Change to the Strive U.S. Energy ETF (NYSE: DRLL)

March 26, 2024--Effective on or about Thursday, April 11, 2024, the Strive U.S. Energy ETF (the "Fund") will undergo a change to its benchmark.
Current Benchmark: Solactive United States Energy Regulated Capped Index
New Benchmark: Bloomberg US Energy Select Index

The benchmark of the Fund will be moving to the Bloomberg US Energy Select Index (the "Index"), which measures the performance of U.S. oil and gas producers.

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Source: ETF Architect


Inspire Launches 9 Basis Point Faith-based ETF

March 26, 2024-- Inspire Investing, the world's largest provider of faith-based ETFs, has just launched a 0.09% expense ratio U.S. large cap fund, the Inspire 500 ETF [ticker: PTL], ushering in a new era of low cost investing for faith-based investors.
PTL is currently the lowest cost faith-based ETF available in the U.S. and is Inspire's ninth fund.

PTL tracks the Inspire 500 Index comprised of the largest 500 companies in the United States by market capitalization with positive biblical values alignment as determined by Inspire Impact Scores greater than or equal to zero.

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Source: Inspire Investing


Tidal and Hashdex Announce Trading of U.S. Spot Bitcoin ETF

March 26, 2024-- Hashdex Bitcoin ETF offers U.S. investors exposure to spot bitcoin following product conversion
Tidal Investments LLC ("Tidal” or the "Sponsor"), a leading name in the ETF industry, and Hashdex Asset Management Ltd. ("Hashdex"), a leading global crypto-focused asset manager, today announced the renaming of the Hashdex Bitcoin Futures ETF to the Hashdex Bitcoin ETF ("DEFI" or "Fund") (Ticker NYSE Arca: DEFI, CUSIP: 88634V100).

DEFI's renaming corresponds to DEFI's completion of the conversion of its investment strategy to allow the Fund to provide spot bitcoin holdings and its tracking of a new benchmark index effective March 27, 2024.

The Fund’s new benchmark index is the Nasdaq Bitcoin Reference Price-Settlement (NQBTCS), which better reflects the Fund’s new strategy of direct bitcoin investment. Going forward and under normal market conditions, the Fund’s investment policy is to maximize its holdings of physical bitcoin such that it is expected that at least 95% of the Fund's assets will be invested in spot bitcoin. Up to 5% of the Fund's remaining assets may be invested in CME-traded bitcoin futures contracts and in cash and cash equivalents.

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Source: Hashdex


Avantis Investors Launches New Active Emerging Markets ETF

March 21, 2024--Avantis Investors, a $40 billion* investment offering from global asset manager American Century Investments, expands its investment capabilities with the launch of a new exchange traded fund (ETF) today. Avantis Emerging Markets ex-China Equity ETF (AVXC) is now listed on the NASDAQ Exchange.

"We are excited about the debut of our latest ETF, AVXC, which marks our 28th active ETF launch since fall 2019," said Phil McInnis, chief investment strategist, Avantis Investors. "The continued adoption we see from investors across our range of offerings reinforces the belief we had when we started Avantis. Investors see value in low-cost, well-designed active strategies that combine the best elements of indexing with the potential to achieve better outcomes."

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Source: American Century Investments


Exchange Traded Concepts Announces Launch of BCIL ETF with Bancreek Capital Advisors

March 21, 2024--Exchange Traded Concepts is pleased to announce the launch of the Bancreek International Large Cap ETF (NYSE: BCIL). The Fund began trading on the New York Stock Exchange on 3/21/24.
This actively managed exchange-traded fund (ETF) seeks long-term capital appreciation by utilizing a rigorous, quantitative framework to invest in securities of large capitalization issuers outside of the United States.

Andrew Skatoff, Founder and CEO of Bancreek Capital Advisors, LLC, shares, "After the successful launch of our flagship ETF, Bancreek Large Cap U.S. ETF (NYSE: BCUS), we are thrilled to bring BCIL to the market. While BCUS focuses on U.S. listed companies, we believe there are also many wonderful businesses outside of the U.S. Unfortunately for investors, there are only a limited number of ETF options for the public to invest in a collection of these companies. With BCIL, we have deployed our proprietary framework and quantitative tools to make investing in structurally advantaged businesses outside the U.S. more accessible for investors."

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Source: Exchange Traded Concepts, LLC


SEC Filings


February 21, 2025 EA Series Trust files with the SEC-MC Trio Equity Buffered ETF
February 21, 2025 PGIM Rock ETF Trust files with the SEC-26 PGIM S&P 500 Buffer ETFs
February 21, 2025 Lazard Active ETF Trust files with the SEC-Lazard International Dynamic Equity ETF
February 21, 2025 J.P. Morgan Exchange-Traded Fund Trust files with the SEC-3 ETFs
February 21, 2025 ETF Series Solutions files with the SEC-ETFB Green SRI REITs ETF

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Europe ETF News


February 19, 2025 Amplify ETFs Changes Fund Name to Highlight 12% Option Income Strategy: Amplify Bloomberg U.S. Treasury 12% Premium Income ETF (TLTP)
February 17, 2025 New on Xetra: Active ETF from Fair Oaks offers access to European and US AAA-rated collateralised loan obligations (CLOs)
February 14, 2025 Goldman Sachs targets leading role in active ETFs in Europe
February 14, 2025 New on Xetra: two equity ETFs from Xtrackers with access to the Scandinavian equity market and developed countries worldwide excluding the US
February 13, 2025 New on Xetra: crypto ETN from 21Shares with access to the cryptocurrency Solana including staking premium

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Asia ETF News


February 17, 2025 ETFs jump to two-thirds of all Taiwan fund assets
February 17, 2025 China explores relaxing rules to allow multi-asset ETFs
February 13, 2025 Mirae Asset's spot gold ETF tops $2.5b in net assets
February 11, 2025 CTBC Launches CTBC U.S. Innovation Technology ETF, Tracking the Solactive U.S. Innovation Technology Index
January 31, 2025 India's economy likely to grow 6.3%-6.8% in 2025/26, government report says

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Global ETP News


February 17, 2025 ETFGI reports assets invested in the global ETFs industry surpassed the hedge fund industry by US$10.33 trillion at the end of 2024
February 13, 2025 Rising Rates May Trigger Financial Instability, Complicating Fight Against Inflation
February 12, 2025 Bybit and Block Scholes Report: Timing Altcoin Season in a Sea of Uncertainty Bybit Logo (PRNewsfoto/Bybit)

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Middle East ETP News


February 20, 2025 Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange welcomes the listing of Chimera iBoxx US Treasury Bill ETF

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Africa ETF News


February 11, 2025 Digital public infrastructure (DPI) will drive AI for Africa's economic transformation
January 21, 2025 South African growth outlook has improved but inflation risks abound, central bank says at Davos
January 14, 2025 JSE plunges to lowest level in four months

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ESG and Of Interest News


February 12, 2025 OECD Services Trade Restrictiveness Index Policy Trends up to 2025

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White Papers


February 09, 2025 White Paper-Monetary Policy Predicts Currency Movements

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