Mumbai: BlackRock is positioning its recently launched Indian government bond exchange-traded fund (ETF) as a “one-stop shop” for foreigners to deploy money in relatively high-yielding local sovereign debt, without navigating multiple layers they would otherwise confront to trade here, said an executive. “On the bond side… the meat of the discussion is still about just … Read more
At a conference in Manhattan last week, a few hundred people gathered to hear luminaries of the cryptocurrency industry and executives from the likes of BlackRock and Fidelity discuss Bitcoin’s march into the investing mainstream this year. However, it was another token that kept coming up in the conversations: a newer cryptocurrency best known for … Read more
Mumbai: India’s capital markets regulator has ordered local mutual fund managers to stop accepting money in plans that invest in overseas exchange traded funds (ETFs) as a $1-billion cumulative sectoral limit for such investments is close to being breached. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) regulates the fund inflows and outflows involving locally pooled investments … Read more
ICICI Prudential Mutual Fund’s ICICI Prudential S&P BSE Sensex ETF, linked to the S&P BSE Sensex index, has reached the milestone of 21 years, solidifying its position as one of the largest and most longstanding ETF offerings in the market. With an AUM of Rs 4,560.71 crore (December 31, 2023), this scheme has a tracking … Read more
Zerodha Fund House on Wednesday announced a new scheme and India’s first growth liquid exchange-traded fund (ETF)—Zerodha Nifty 1D Rate Liquid ETF. The fund is expected to be listed on the NSE and BSE exchanges by January 24. The Zerodha Nifty 1D Rate Liquid ETF replicates the Nifty 1D Rate Index, which measures the returns … Read more
An unprecedented amount of cash flowed into the world’s largest and oldest exchange-traded fund last week, as stocks rallied to near-record highs after the Federal Reserve indicated it could cut interest rates next year. State Street’s $478 billion SPDR S&P 500 ETF (ticker SPY) raked in $20.8 billion on Friday, the biggest inflow since the … Read more
The crypto market is witnessing its best performance since May 2022, with Bitcoin and Ethereum breaching the $41,000 and $2,200 marks, respectively. The latest rally has taken the total crypto market cap to the $1.54 trillion, a 2023 high. Experts say the growing confidence in the crypto market has been fuelled by expectations of the US … Read more
Traders in the $325 billion industry for emerging-market exchange-traded funds are shifting cash toward strategies that focus on brighter spots in the developing world as China’s economy stumbles. Actively managed ETFs – especially those with exposure to India’s world-beating growth and Latin American stocks – have lured nearly half a billion dollars over the past … Read more
As equity markets around the world unravel against a backdrop of escalating geopolitical tensions and interest rate hikes, equity investors are fazed by heightened volatility and many of the investor’s portfolios may have slipped into the red. This can be an unnerving experience for many, especially those who are new to investing. One of the … Read more
A new ETF-for-everything era may have just begun on Wall Street, swelling an industry that already boasts nearly 3,000 products and $6.2 trillion in assets. The booming world of exchange-traded funds is about to get even more crowded after the very first single-equity ETFs launched Thursday — despite a torrent of regulatory warnings over their … Read more