By Robert Minter, Director of ETF Investment Strategy at abrdn.

Industrial metals are a unique asset class within the commodities sector that may allow investors to gain exposure to the global green energy transition.

Toronto-based Sprott Asset Management has launched a new physically backed gold ETF in the US with the fund’s underlying bullion holdings sourced exclusively from ethical miners and refiners.

Harbor Capital Advisors has launched a broad basket commodities ETF focused on the building blocks of the accelerating transition to less carbon-intensive energy sources.

Singapore-based crypto exchange Eqonex has entered Europe’s digital assets investment market with the launch of a directly backed bitcoin ETP on Xetra.

Rising interest rates, the expectation for further aggressive monetary tightening, and a strengthening US dollar have caused the price of gold to slump and investors to make significant redemptions from gold-backed ETFs.

Franklin Templeton has launched a low-cost physically backed gold ETF in the US with all underlying bullion holdings sourced from ethical miners and refiners.

Crypto investment firm CoinShares has launched two new ETPs in Europe providing zero-fee, staked exposure to MATIC and ATOM, the native tokens underpinning the Polygon and Cosmos blockchains.

Leverage Shares has rolled out several new ETPs on London Stock Exchange providing tactical exposure to individual commodities and country-specific equity indices.

Gold ETFs recorded net outflows of $3.1 billion globally in May, reversing course after a four-month run of inflows that saw total gold ETF holdings fall just 1% shy of their all-time high.

SparkChange has cross-listed the first ETP providing physically-backed exposure to EU Allowances, the world’s foremost carbon credit, on Deutsche Börse Xetra and Borsa Italiana.