By Denise Simon (pictured), Lazard Asset Management – When it comes to investing in emerging market debt, patience is a virtue.

David Wylie (pictured), Director of intelligent decisioning technology provider LendingMetrics, says that automated platforms need to be used more extensively by the wealth management sector if it is to fully comply with the growing volume of regulation…

Ivan Gilmore (pictured), Head of Securities Trading, London Stock Exchange, London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) writes that stock exchanges have shown resilience through mixed times and looks forward to a golden age of ETFs that lies ahead…

Jordan Waldrep (pictured), Principal and CIO of TrueMark writes that last year, the Environmental, Social, and Governance investing space, or ESG, saw some of the fastest inflows of any area in the ETF universe. 

The Leisure and Entertainment sector could offer investors a unique way to play the economic re-opening writes Rene Reyna (pictured), Head of Thematic ETFs and Specialty Products, Invesco. 

By Dave Shastri (pictured), Chief Strategist, TrussEdge – The growth in the size of the global ETF market remains spectacular. The volumes flowing into ETFs, including active ETFs, have many fund managers wondering whether now might be the time to look at launching one of their own.

By Allan Lane, Algo-Chain – According to a recent article in the Wall Street Journal, the data provider Broadridge Financial Solutions estimates that model portfolios in the US held over USD4 trillion of assets as of September 2020, and to this we can safely add another USD1 trillion if we include the UK.

By Allan Lane, Algo-Chain – If you are a Discretionary Fund Manager running Model Portfolios on financial adviser platforms, you will often find that ETFs available on one platform are not available on another, which invariably forces the manager to oversee multiple incarnations of what is meant to be the same portfolio.

By Allan Lane, Algo-Chain – With the news that PayPal has entered the cryptocurrency market, quickly followed by the world’s biggest ever IPO, where Ant, the financial services arm of Alibaba, raised USD34 billion from investors, it would be fair to say that 2020 has proven to be a breakthrough year for the FinTech movement.  With Alipay reputedly accounting for USD17,000,000,000,000 in online payments, and with Ant’s share issue taking place in Asia rather than the US, the sheer scale of what is at stake here will not be lost on many.

This year has been the year when themed investing has dominated the headlines, but at this very moment in time it would be hard to exaggerate how the top 10 best performing ETFs listed on the London Stock Exchange so perfectly encodes the hope that many investors envisage in a post-pandemic world.