Mike Venuto (pictured), CIO of Toroso Investments and co-founder of the TETF index, which is designed to mirror the ETF industry, has commented on yesterday’s news that the SEC has suspended trading in XBT Provider’s Bitcoin Tracker One and Ether Tracker One. »

Ibis Capital, profiled in AlphaQ, a specialist education technology alternative investment manager, is to launch the world’s first education technology special purpose acquisition company, or SPAC. »

The summer saw the launch of a new investment platform, AtomInvest, which is designed to democratise access to alternative investment funds across private equity, venture capital and hedge funds. »

This GFM Special Report focuses on the newest investments based on crypto coins and blockchain technology, including Kryptoin, a crypto ETF, Protos and its crypto hedge funds, and Veridium’s tokens which aim to aid corporate carbon offset activities »

EDHEC-Risk Institute has announced the results of the 11th EDHEC European ETF and Smart Beta and Factor Investing Survey, conducted as part of the Amundi research chair at EDHEC-Risk Institute on ‘ETF, Indexing and Smart Beta Investment Strategies’.  »

There was a bit a slow-down this week following the post-Summer rush of new ETF launches but still some notable action with JP Morgan Asset Management launching its first active equity ETFs and PGIM Investments pitching in with a new actively-managed high-yield bond fund… »

There’s a truly global feel to this week’s new ETF launches with funds focused on the US telecoms sector, Asia tech companies, the MSCI World Index, plus HANetf’s debut European fund. ESG gets a look in too with ETFs from BlackRock and Vanguard… »

The machines marched into the ETF space this week with the launch of a pair of robotics and AI-focused funds, while elsewhere, in a mixed bag, SSGA added to its single-country suite and BlackRock expanded its thematic fund range… »