The top story, for the sake of the image alone this week, (yes, we are that shallow – it’s August), is the latest launch of a marijuana-based ETF. The medical and legal cannabis industry has shown exponential growth in north America, and Innovation Shares ETF’s newest launch seems to have caught that trend.
Meanwhile, Philippa Aylmer writes on the papers published by EFAMA and the European Systemic Risk Board, debating concerns on ETF liquidity and any threat that might be posed to the capital markets. Concern is inevitable but misplaced says EFAMA’s Federico Cupelli in our detailed piece on the subject.
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Beverly Chandler,
Managing Editor, ETFexpress
Companies in this issue
Arcview
BetaShares
CFRA
EFAMA
ESRB
First Bridge Data
HSBC
Innovation Shares
Index IQ
Invesco
iShares
UBS
