CSOP Asset Management has unveiled two new ETPs in Hong Kong that are the territory’s first to provide leveraged and inverse exposure to Chinese A-shares. The CSOP CSI 300 Index Daily (2x) Leveraged Product (7233 HK) and CSOP CSI 300 Index Daily (-1x) Inverse Product (7333 HK) have listed on the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong and come with expense ratios of 1.99%.

Leverage Shares has launched 28 new ETPs on London Stock Exchange providing investors with inverse or leveraged exposure to popular individual stocks traded on US exchanges. Oktay Kavrak, Institutional Sales at Leverage Shares, said, “Our products are meant for experienced investors to capitalize on opportunities in both directions. These include short-term tactics like magnifying intraday moves and reacting to the news, while also catering to longer-term strategies like managing risk through hedging.”

The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong has welcomed its first ETP to provide leveraged exposure to commodity markets. The CSOP Gold Futures Daily (2x) Leveraged Product (7299 HK) provides 200% of the daily return of the Solactive Gold 1-Day Rolling Futures Index which tracks the performance of the active month gold futures contract traded on COMEX.

By the ETF Research team at Direxion.

Traders with an interest in bonds and treasury notes can take their cues from prior instances of economic crisis to inform how they may want to position themselves as the economic drama unfolds.

CSOP Asset Management has unveiled a new ETP in Hong Kong providing leveraged exposure to the NASDAQ 100. The CSOP NASDAQ – 100 Index Daily 2x Leveraged Product (7266 HK) has listed on Hong Kong stock exchange and comes with an expense ratio of 1.99%. The ETP uses derivatives to provide twice the daily return of the index.

By Emily Doak, Managing Director of ETF Research for Charles Schwab Investment Advisory.

The record volatility of 2020 has been accompanied by a higher than usual number of exchange-traded product closures, especially among leveraged and inverse products.

Inverse and leveraged ETF specialist Direxion has made several adjustments to its product line-up in response to the unprecedented market volatility arising from the Covid-19 pandemic and oil price war. The changes include scaling down the magnitude of exposure offered by ten of its most highly leveraged ETFs, as well as permanently shuttering eight ETFs no longer considered to be economically viable.

AgioFunds and its listing partner Beta Securities Poland have announced the launch of the WIG20lev Beta ETF (BETAW20L PW) on GPW, the Warsaw Stock Exchange. The fund provides investors with 200% daily leveraged exposure to the WIG20 Index, the foremost gauge of the Warsaw stock market. Robert Sochacki, Member of the Management Board of Beta Securities Poland, commented, “The launch of WIG20lev BETA ETF is a natural continuation of the November launch of WIG20short BETA ETF. These funds are dedicated to investors who expect WIG20 to change sharply.”

IHS Markit and MSCI have announced a collaboration in which IHS Markit will apply MSCI’s environmental, social, and governance (ESG) expertise to a broad range of fixed income and credit indices. As a first phase of the collaboration, IHS Markit has introduced ESG versions of iBoxx indices that cover the short maturity segments of the US dollar, euro, and pound sterling corporate bond markets. Sophia Dancygier, Head of Indices at IHS Markit, commented, “Investors have a growing appetite for exposure to ESG funds, creating a need for indices that integrate these principles while accurately representing the underlying market and continuing to deliver strong returns.”

Amun, a Switzerland-based issuer of exchange-traded products linked to crypto-assets, has announced the launch of the 21Shares Short Bitcoin ETP (SBTC SW) on SIX Swiss Exchange. It is the first ETP globally to provide inverse exposure to the price movements of Bitcoin, the world’s largest cryptocurrency by market cap. Hany Rashwan, CEO of Amun, commented, “Our platform is now near complete and marks an important step towards the introduction of derivative products in conventional ETP form for the still-nascent crypto market. I am proud that the Amun team continues to pioneer innovation and bring new investor-friendly institutional-grade products to the market.”