HANetf Hits Half Billion Dollar AUM Milestone - 600% growth in last 6 months
- Europe’s Pioneering White-Label ETF Platform Breaks Another AUM
Milestone
- Driven by extensive gold flows and outstanding performance in emerging technology
themes
- Distribution reach and fund offering grow over 2020
27th July 2020 - HANetf,
Europe’s first ‘white label’ ETF issuer, is pleased to confirm that it has
exceeded $500 Million and is now $509million in AUM as of 27th July
2020.
This AUM milestone
represents yet another milestone for the HANetf platform that has increased its
assets by over 600% over the last 6 months [1].
Founded in
2017 by ETF industry pioneers Hector McNeil and Nik Bienkowski, HANetf was
built to reduce the barriers to entry to the European ETF market, by providing
a full operational, regulatory, distribution and marketing solution for asset
managers who want to successfully launch and manage ETFs and ETPs.
The first
ETF launched on the HANetf platform was our Emerging Markets ETF– which recently blew
through the $100m AUM threshold. The fund has been one of the world’s best performing
emerging market focussed ETFs of 2020, delivering an eye-watering 47% return
over the last 12 months [2].
Past
performance is no guarantee of future performance. When you trade ETFs, your
capital is at risk.
The largest fund on the HANetf
platform, our Gold ETC, has seen huge growth as investors flock to physical gold
as a ‘safe haven’ in the face of COVID-19 market uncertainty. RMAU was launched in February 2020 and is
unique in that gold is custodied outside of the London banking and clearing
system in the vaults of The Royal Mint in Wales, with the Mint providing
physical delivery of gold in the form of bars or bullion coins if clients want
physical ownership.
HANetf is just about to list
its next ETF, a Midstream Energy ETF, on London Stock
Exchange next week in partnership with Alerian, world leaders in North American energy infrastructure indexing and
research.
HANetf
currently has six asset management clients and eight ETFs/ETCs and is in
discussion with over 50 other managers about entering the European UCITS
exchange traded product space. HANetf expects this to accelerate as more
traditional asset managers see the benefits of the ETF wrapper and as
investment strategies multiply to include thematics, niche, smart beta and
active strategies.
Co-Founder
and Co-CEO, Nik Bienkowski commented: “We’re proud to have hit another
significant milestone so rapidly. The appetite for ETFs grows stronger every
day as investors are placing higher value on products that offer great
exposures with the added benefits of cost-effectiveness and liquidity. This, in
turn, is drawing more asset managers into the ETF space and they seek to tap
into the immensely effective distribution power of ETFs.
Since
launch, HANetf has demonstrated that asset managers can bring their ideas,
compete and succeed in the European ETF market without the highs costs and
distribution challenges that come with starting an ETF business from scratch. Our Gold and Emerging Markets ETFs have proved a fantastic success but what is also encouraging is
the majority of ETFs in the HANetf range have added assets this year.”