Specialist crypto ETP provider ETC Group has issued a warning to investors regarding the emergence of low-cost crypto products that offset their operating costs by engaging in potentially risky lending practices.

By Robert Minter, Director of ETF Investment Strategy at abrdn.

Industrial metals are a unique asset class within the commodities sector that may allow investors to gain exposure to the global green energy transition.

Toronto-based Sprott Asset Management has launched a new physically backed gold ETF in the US with the fund’s underlying bullion holdings sourced exclusively from ethical miners and refiners.

Newly minted Pando Asset has debuted its first ETP in Switzerland providing directly backed exposure to a basket of cryptocurrencies underpinning leading smart contract platforms.

Harbor Capital Advisors has launched a broad basket commodities ETF focused on the building blocks of the accelerating transition to less carbon-intensive energy sources.

Singapore-based crypto exchange Eqonex has entered Europe’s digital assets investment market with the launch of a directly backed bitcoin ETP on Xetra.

Rising interest rates, the expectation for further aggressive monetary tightening, and a strengthening US dollar have caused the price of gold to slump and investors to make significant redemptions from gold-backed ETFs.

21Shares has unveiled the 21Shares Bitcoin Core ETP (CBTC SW) on SIX Swiss Exchange, providing directly backed exposure to bitcoin for a fixed annual fee of just 0.21%.

Franklin Templeton has launched a low-cost physically backed gold ETF in the US with all underlying bullion holdings sourced from ethical miners and refiners.

Gold ETFs recorded net outflows of $3.1 billion globally in May, reversing course after a four-month run of inflows that saw total gold ETF holdings fall just 1% shy of their all-time high.