UBS has expanded its suite of socially responsible strategies with the launch of an S&P 500-derived ETF in Europe that selects only the very highest-ranking constituents as measured by environmental, social, and governance criteria.

First Trust has launched an ETF in Europe that applies its ‘capital strength’ investment process to a global universe of companies screened by environmental, social, and governance criteria.

New York-based ASYMmetric ETFs has listed its debut product, a hedge fund-style ETF targeting an absolute return profile within US large-cap equities.

Thematic specialist Defiance ETFs has launched the Defiance Next Gen H2 (HDRO US) on NYSE Arca, the first US-listed ETF to target companies involved in the development of hydrogen-based energy sources and technologies.

Maxwell Gold, Head of Gold Strategy, State Street Global Advisors, examines the current inflation landscape and gold’s historical performance as a potential efficient diversifier during bouts of different forms of inflation.

By Lyxor Asset Management.

It’s one year since the pandemic shut down large parts of the global economy. Now, hopes that mass vaccination will accelerate economic normalization have raised the prospect of inflation.

GraniteShares has launched 12 ETPs on the LSE providing directional exposure to baskets of popular US technology stocks.

VanEck has rolled out an ETF on NYSE Arca that attempts to pick outperforming US large-cap stocks by detecting investor-sentiment trends across social media platforms.

CI Global Asset Management has become the third Canadian ETF issuer to launch a directly backed bitcoin ETF.

Four-in-five investors plan to increase their allocation to thematic ETFs this year, according to the eighth annual global ETF investor survey conducted by Brown Brothers Harriman.