ETF

JPMorgan’s first Taiwan ETF in over decade faces crowded market

The US asset manager’s fund will be its first one focused on Taiwanese assets since 2010

The trend of investors piling into retail products to capitalise on Iran war-driven price swings has helped exacerbate oil’s historic rally amid an effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz chokepoint, through which a fifth of global oil typically flows.

Retail oil traders spark ETF boom amid institutional slump

[NEW YORK] Anthony Sandford knew it was time to jump back into the energy sector when US war planes first cast shadows over Tehran in late February.

A mid-cap ETF would complement the STI by adding sector breadth and exposure to faster-growing companies.

The case for an iEdge Singapore Next 50 ETF

Most developed markets offer investors a domestic mid-cap ETF alongside a flagship large-cap product

 A large amount of South Korean retail overseas ETF holdings are in leveraged or inverse funds.

South Korea market crashes are luring traders hooked on leveraged ETFs

South Korean retail investors are among the biggest drivers of trading in US-listed leveraged funds globally

Investor caution seems to be rising as the global AI trade turns more volatile.

South Korea’s ETF boom puts assets on track to overtake Taiwan

The two tech-heavy Asian markets have been a focal point in recent years, thanks to a global frenzy sparked by the rise of AI

JP Morgan said that the largest publicly traded ETF managers are all likely to see a higher distribution fee, but the impact is likely to be uneven.

US brokers may levy fee on ETF managers

JP Morgan estimates the US ETF management fee pool to be US$21 billion

Many expected Singapore’s STI to drop 3-5%, instead, from Jan 12 to 20, the STI rose 2.2%.

In Singapore, dips aren’t plunges – they’re opportunities

Now, small and mid-cap stocks and ETFs are generating new momentum

Strong demand for tech stocks makes the euphoria hard to quell.

China national team’s US$68 billion exit alters stock strategies

Trading activity onshore has eased from a frenzied pace of nearly four trillion yuan earlier this month

As a leader in active ETFs, JPMorgan Asset Management is already behind both the biggest active equity and bond ETFs.

JPMorgan eclipses Dimensional as world’s biggest active ETF firm

The bank’s asset management arm currently controls nearly US$257 billion in active ETFs worldwide

The entire ETF holdings has a market value of 83 trillion yen (S$676 billion) at the end of September, and that value has likely risen since then after stock prices reached a record high this week.

Bank of Japan says sales of its ETF holdings to start next week

The bank is set to unload the assets little by little to avoid roiling markets