Brown Brothers Harriman has completed the conversion of two open-end mutual funds to ETFs on behalf of Guinness Atkinson Asset Management: Guinness Atkinson Dividend Builder Fund (GAINX) and Guinness Atkinson Asia Pacific Dividend Builder Fund (GAADX). These are the first two mutual funds converted into ETFs in the U.S. BBH has a long-standing relationship with…
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Link Group supports re-launch of Switzer FI fund in Australia
Link Group, the Australia-based administrator, and Switzer Asset Management have re-launched the Switzer High Yield Fund as a quoted managed (active ETF) fund, allowing units to be bought and sold on the stock exchange as well as directly from the issuer. This is the first fixed-income quoted managed fund to be launched on the Australian…
Citi to service OFC ETFs for Mirae
Mirae Asset Global Investments (HK) Limited has appointed Citi as OFC custodian and provide fund administration and ETF services for the launch of two OFC ETFs: an inaugural active ETF – Global X China Innovator Active ETF – and a passive ETF – Global X China Global Leaders ETF. Both invest in equities of companies…
State Street opens Fund Connect ETF platform to all issuers
State Street has opened up its Fund Connect ETF platform to support all ETF issuers, regardless of their service provider. The platform was previously only available to issuers serviced by State Street. The Fund Connect platform links APs and issuers. Fund Connect ETF is a global online trading portal for the creation and redemption of…
BP2S to service Harvest’s new ESG ETF
BNP Paribas Securities Services has been appointed to provide fund services for Harvest Global Investments’ new CSI 300 ESG Leaders Index ETF. Services include global custody, fund administration, trustee, transfer agent and participating dealer. Harvest, which has a longstanding relationship with BP2S, is one of the largest Chinese institutional asset managers.
State Street to administer VanEck’s bitcoin ETF
State Street has been appointed as the fund administrator and transfer agent of the VanEck Bitcoin Trust, a new bitcoin exchange-traded fund that is currently pending approval by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The trust is expected to be the first U.S.-listed ETF offering exposure to bitcoin. The trust’s investment objective is to reflect…
BlackRock to transfer ETF assets from State Street
State Street has confirmed that, following a review, it expects BlackRock to move a “significant portion of its ETF assets currently with State Street to one or more other providers, pending necessary approvals”. The transition is expected to begin in 2022 but will principally occur in 2023. In 2017 BlackRock moved USD1trn of common trust…
Gabelli appoints BNY Mellon to support actively managed ETF
BNY Mellon has been selected by Gabelli Funds to support the launch of its new actively managed ETF, Gabelli Love Our Planet and People (LOPP). BNY Mellon will provide integrated custody, accounting, administration and ETF services, including its proprietary ETF Center, which offers technology designed to support actively managed ETFs.
Citi to service first OFC ETF for CSOP in Hong Kong
Citi has been selected by CSOP Asset Management, the Hong Kong-based asset manager, to provide custody, fund administration and trustee services for the launch of its first ETF (CSOP STAR 50 Index ETF) in the form of an open-ended fund company. Chen Ding, CEO of CSOP Asset Management, said: “We are extremely excited to be…
CIBC Mellon and State Street are winners as BlackRock fires Scotiabank
BlackRock Canada, an indirect, wholly-owned subsidiary of BlackRock, Inc., has announced changes to the custodian line-up for its iShares Gold Bullion ETF and iShares Silver Bullion ETF. CIBC Mellon Trust Company will act as bullion custodian for the iShares Funds, and State Street Trust Company Canada as custodian of the non-bullion assets of the iShares…