Digital ETNs can be cheaper to hold than most equity and bond funds
Asset managers keen to expand into fast-growing market
And why they might soon change
New ruling will allow exchange-traded crypto products to be held in Isas and Sipps
Stacking sats like a champ
Move follows pressure from UK regulator to shake up charging structure to ensure customers receive a fair deal
Investors flee SPY despite this year’s rally on Wall Street in search of cheaper alternatives
Decision could hasten decline of investment funds with higher fee structures and lower transparency
Asset manager estimates reducing charges on some equity exchange traded funds will save investors $18.5mn a year
BIG NEWS for a small industry
Rex-Osprey Doge ETF seen as first of many to be waved through by US regulator under Trump-nominee chair
Almost a third of UK investors aged over 55 have never heard of exchange traded funds
Once more unto the active-passive breach
Dimensional Fund Advisors’ launch will widen choice for UK retail investors
New rules allow active funds to avoid publishing holdings every day
A multitude of choice might not necessarily be a good thing for investors
It’s hard to diversify when American stocks comprise more than 72 per cent of the MSCI World index
Developing world stocks outperform US as dollar languishes at three-year lows
Regional expansion by group of US-based asset managers far outstrips local sector’s growth
FCA’s lifting of ban compared with ‘Big Bang’ reforms of the late 1980s
Only 20 per cent of funds that track themes such as AI have beaten broader indices, says data group Morningstar
Because retail’s gonna retail
Such funds now exceed passive ones in number in the US in a big shift for the $17tn industry
New fund underlines push to package up complex financial instruments in vehicles available to retail investors
World’s second-largest asset manager estimates reduction will save investors $3.5mn a year
