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The Noble Precious Metal

ETF Securities – The Noble Precious Metal. Once known as “white gold,” platinum is one of the rarest precious metals in the world. Platinum is imbued with unique properties that make it highly sought-after for use in jewelry, industrial applications, and as an investment. Because it’s extremely resistant to tarnishing and corrosion, it’s referred to as a “noble” metal. To better familiarize you and your clients with the metal that Italian physician Julius Scaliger called “platina” (little silver), here are a few salient facts about platinum.

Supply & demand

According to the World Platinum Investment Council, the platinum market is likely to be in a deficit from 2016 to 2021, a shortage that equates to 250,000 ounces per year. It is predicted that this imbalance should help drive higher metal prices over this period. The remainder of platinum’s annual supply comes from jewelry scrap, which increases during economic downturns, and auto catalyst scrap, which peaks during rising economic activity and broader commodity price increases.

The majority of platinum’s demand comes from four sectors

37-42% Automotive

Auto catalysts, spark plugs, and O2 sensors for both diesel and electric cars

31-38% Jewelry

China accounts for +65% of platinum’s jewelry market, demand from India has risen +10x in the past 7 years, in the U.S., platinum is the #1 choice for engagement rings.

18-24% Industrial

Liquid crystal displays, optical and ophthalmic devices, servers supporting cloud storage, pacemakers, surgical instruments.

2-11% Investment

Platinum-backed ETFs are a growing source of investment for individuals and institutions

Did you know ?

  • ALL THE PLATINUM EVER PRODUCED WOULD ONLY COVER YOUR ANKLES IN ONE OLYMPIC-SIZED POOL
  • SOUTH AFRICA IS THE WORLD’S LARGEST PLATINUM PRODUCER, ACCOUNTING FOR SOME 70% OF GLOBAL SUPPLY, ANNUALLY
  • PLATINUM IS VERY MALLEABLE, MEANING IT CAN BE POUNDED INTO A SHEET WHICH IS AS THIN AS 100 ATOMS

Portfolio considerations

Platinum is a risk management tool since it is a diversifier of equity exposure and equity risk. It is also a capital appreciation tool. It’s highly tied to the economic cycle, supportive fundamentals, and tight market structure giving it upside potential as an investment. For perspective, the price of platinum has risen almost 400% since 1975.

Key drivers for platinum

GLOBAL CONSUMER – over 40% of annual demand has stemmed from consumer sectors10
ECONOMIC CYCLE – overall global economy drives platinum demand as most of its uses are tied to industrial production
SOUTH AFRICAN RAND – with the majority of supply coming from South Africa, platinum has a high correlation to the country’s currency, the South African Rand

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ETFS Physical Platinum Shares (PPLT)

PPLT is the only platinum exchange traded fund (ETF) wrapper in the United States. PPLT provides cost effective, convenient access to platinum in the form of physically-backed bars held in a secured vault in London, which is inspected twice a year (including once at random). A bar list is posted daily on:

etfsecurities.com

DISCLOSURE

The ETFS Platinum Trust is not an investment company registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940 or a commodity pool for purposes of the Commodity Exchange Act. Shares of the Platinum Trust are not subject to the same regulatory requirements as mutual funds. These investments are not suitable for all investors. Trusts focusing on a single commodity generally experience greater volatility. There are special risks associated with short selling and margin investing. Please ask your financial advisor for more information about these risks.

The value of the Shares relates directly to the value of the platinum held by the Trust and fluctuations in the price of platinum could materially adversely affect an investment in the Shares. Several factors may affect the price of platinum including: (1) A change in economic conditions, such as a recession, can adversely affect the price of platinum. Platinum is used in a wide range of industrial applications, and an economic downturn could have a negative impact on its demand and, consequently, its price and the price of the Shares; (2) Investors’ expectations with respect to the rate of inflation; (3) Currency exchange rates; (4) Interest rates; (5) Investment and trading activities of hedge funds and commodity funds; and (6) Global or regional political, economic or financial events and situations. Should there be an increase in the level of hedge activity of platinum producing companies, it could cause a decline in world platinum price, adversely affecting the price of the Shares.

Commodities and futures generally are volatile and are not suitable for all investors

Commodities and futures generally are volatile and are not suitable for all investors. Shares in the Trust are not FDIC insured and may lose value and have no bank guarantee.

Investors buy and sell shares on a secondary market (i.e., not directly from trust). Only market makers or “authorized participants” may trade directly with the fund, typically in blocks of 50k to 100k shares. The Fund’s net asset value per share (NAV) is calculated by dividing the value of the Fund’s total assets less total liabilities by the number of shares outstanding. Market Price returns are based on the bid/ask spread at 4 p.m. ET and do not represent the returns an investor would receive if shares were traded at other times.

Carefully consider the fund’s investment objectives, risk factors, and fees and expenses before investing. For further discussion of the risks associated with an investment in the funds please read the prospectus at www.etfsecurities.com/etfsdocs/USProspectus.aspx. Or visit the ETF Securities website: www.etfsecurities.com.

ALPS Distributors, Inc. is unaffiliated with J.P. Morgan Chase Bank, N.A. and The Bank of New York Mellon.

ETFS Platinum Trust shares are not guaranteed by J.P. Morgan Chase Bank, N.A. or anyone else: ETFS PlatinumTrust shares are direct, limited recourse obligations of the Trust alone and not obligations of any other person including J.P. Morgan Chase Bank, N.A., any member of the JPMorgan Chase Group or its affiliates. ALPS Distributors, Inc. is the marketing agent for ETFS Platinum Trust.

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Invesco: Gold signals a shifting world order without a new leader

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The United States remains economically and financially dominant, but beneath the surface doubts are growing about how sustainable that position really is. According to Benjamin Jones, head of research at Invesco, the continued rise in gold suggests that investors are preparing for a world in which the balance of power is shifting, without any clear alternative leader emerging.

The United States remains economically and financially dominant, but beneath the surface doubts are growing about how sustainable that position really is. According to Benjamin Jones, head of research at Invesco, the continued rise in gold suggests that investors are preparing for a world in which the balance of power is shifting, without any clear alternative leader emerging.

The US twin deficits

The joint, pre-2025 rally in US risk assets and the dollar sits uneasily with concerns over US fiscal and current-account deficits, a deteriorating Net International Investment Position (NIIP), reindustrialisation goals, and the secular rise in gold, explains Jones.

“In our view, the long-running rally in gold alongside high returns and rising concentration in dollar assets reflects two forces: a faltering world order and the economics of heavy US fiscal imbalances, rising external obligations, and persistent deficits; but also, the unique success of US firms in driving GDP growth, earnings and innovation. Ironically, that strength may itself increase the risk of a financial, currency or balance-of-payments shock in a geopolitical crisis.”

According to Jones, the sharp drop in the US NIIP has come as foreign claims outstrip US claims abroad. “This was driven less by foreign Treasury holdings, which have stabilised, and more by inflows into private-sector assets, especially equities, as investors embraced “US Exceptionalism” as shorthand for superior growth and financial performance relative to peers such as Western Europe and Japan. The result has been major inflows into US equities, corporate debt and private markets.”

Even though much of the increase in exposure has been to risk assets rather than bonds, large outflows could still threaten fiscal and financial stability, says Jones. “For now, trade barriers and efforts to weaken the dollar to promote reindustrialisation have prompted rebalancing away from US stocks, bonds and the dollar. Amid geopolitical tensions, weaker fiscal and external positions, and renewed protectionism and unpredictability, official investors and private investors have sharply increased gold purchases as a store of value.”

Heavy gold flow in financial markets

US financial leadership persists despite geoeconomic rebalancing toward rivals, Jones continues. “The US still leads in market capitalisation, turnover and liquidity, while the Treasury market remains the largest and deepest pool of debt issuance. Dollar liquidity is so high that trades <<between other currencies are often executed through the dollar. Global portfolio concentration in the US has also been reinforced by inflows into benchmarked funds and passive trackers. The core driver remains US exceptionalism. Rich valuations and concentration in US tech may suggest a bubble, yet US firms have continued to deliver innovation, market share, revenue and earnings growth.”

According to Jones, rivals remain less compelling from a market perspective. “Europe has lagged the US since the financial crisis, while China has matched or surpassed US innovation but, until recently, delivered weaker market returns due to domestic de-risking policies.”

The US share of official reserves has declined somewhat, while the euro and most other currencies have levelled off, Jones continues. “Gold’s share has risen sharply since the start of the war in Ukraine in 2022, suggesting the TINA problem persists: there is no real alternative to the dollar other than gold itself. Central banks increasingly prefer the safety of gold, the liability of no government.”

Future: Geopolitical, economic, technological and military competition
An open world economy helped many countries narrow productivity gaps with the US, but leadership is no longer aligned across power domains. “Economically, the world is increasingly tripolar, centred on the US, China and the eurozone. Militarily, power is concentrated in the US, China and Russia. Technologically, the US and China are at or near parity, while others lag. Financially, however, the US still has no peer,” notes Jones.

He continues: “Conventional economic, military and technological competition therefore still matters, even in a nuclear world. US concerns about overextension are sharpened by China’s vast industrial capacity, with output and shipbuilding far exceeding that of the US. Recent wars have shown that modern conflict still depends on industrial mobilisation for technology, drones and ammunition. This helps explain the US push for reindustrialisation.”

At the same time, US fiscal and external obligations create vulnerabilities if confidence were shaken by a future crisis, conflict or major shock. Jones concludes: “Washington is also retreating from parts of the multilateral order while seeking to reshape global trade more in its favour, reinforcing perceptions of unilateralism. Gold may be signaling an incomplete global reordering: not a clear new polarity, but an “unipolar” world in which leadership shifts by issue, region and moment. The US and the dollar would still likely remain first among equals, supported by deep financial markets, technological dynamism and strategic advantages, even as rival powers continue to rise.”

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AXA IM Short Duration Income UCITS ETF USD Dist (ASLT ETF) med ISIN IE000P0AMD16, är en aktivt förvaltad börshandlad fond.

AXA IM Short Duration Income UCITS ETF USD Dist (ASLT ETF) med ISIN IE000P0AMD16, är en aktivt förvaltad börshandlad fond.

ETFen investerar i företagsobligationer från hela världen. Rating: Investment grade. Löptid: 1–3 år.

Den börshandlade fondens totala kostnadskvot (TER) uppgår till 0,19 % per år. Ränteintäkterna (kuponger) i ETFen delas ut till investerarna (månadsvis).

AXA IM Short Duration Income UCITS ETF USD Dist är en mycket liten ETF med 0 miljoner euro förvaltade tillgångar. Denna ETF lanserades den 9 juli 2025 och har sitt säte i Irland.

Handla ASLT ETF

AXA IM Short Duration Income UCITS ETF USD Dist (ASLT ETF) är en europeisk börshandlad fond. Denna fond handlas på flera olika börser, till exempel Deutsche Boerse Xetra och Borsa Italiana.

Det betyder att det går att handla andelar i denna ETF genom de flesta svenska banker och Internetmäklare, till exempel  Nordnet, SAVR, DEGIRO och Avanza.

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Borsa ItalianaEURASLU
XETRAUSDASLU
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Anslut dig till kvantrevolutionen med Lunates nya ETF på Xetra

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Kvantdatorteknik transformerar alla sorters industrier från hälso- och sjukvård till cybersäkerhet, och Boreas kliver fram som en nyckelspelare. Lunate Capitals Boreas Solactive Quantum Computing UCITS ETF på Xetra erbjuder investerare en diversifierad exponering mot ledande globala kvantteknologibolag.

Kvantdatorteknik håller snabbt på att gå från forskningslabb till verkliga tillämpningar – och investerare får nu ett nytt sätt att ta del av utvecklingen. Med lanseringen av Boreas Solactive Quantum Computing UCITS ETF (QQCC) Xetra öppnas dörren till ett av de mest transformativa teknikområdena i modern tid.

En ny era inom datorkraft

Till skillnad från traditionella datorer, som bearbetar information steg för steg, kan kvantdatorer analysera många möjliga lösningar samtidigt. Resultatet är en exponentiell ökning i beräkningskraft – med potential att lösa problem som idag är praktiskt taget omöjliga.

Enligt uppskattningar kan kvantteknologi skapa upp till 2 biljoner (eng: trillions) dollar i ekonomiskt värde fram till 2035.

Tekniken väntas få särskilt stor påverkan inom områden som:

Läkemedelsutveckling – snabbare simulering av proteinveckning och sjukdomar

Materialvetenskap – utveckling av starkare och lättare material

Finans – förbättrad riskhantering och portföljoptimering

Stark tillväxt och ökade investeringar

Kvantindustrin befinner sig i ett tydligt tillväxtskede. Under 2024 investerades omkring 2 miljarder dollar i kvantstartups globalt, samtidigt som statliga satsningar överstiger 50 miljarder dollar totalt. Både USA och Kina har uttryckt kvantmekanik som särskilt viktigt och prioriterat område och stora satsningar har tillkännagivits under 2025 och 2026.

Samtidigt växer marknaden snabbt, med ökande patentaktivitet och stora samarbeten mellan teknikbolag och investerare. Regionen Mellanöstern, särskilt UAE och Saudiarabien, positionerar sig också som en viktig hub för kvantutveckling.

ETF ger bred exponering mot kvanttemat

Den nya ETF:en, Boreas Solactive Quantum Computing UCITS ETF (QQCC), är utformad för att ge investerare diversifierad exponering mot cirka 25 ledande bolag inom kvantteknologi.

Indexet omfattar hela värdekedjan, inklusive:

• Hårdvara för kvantdatorer

• Mjukvara och algoritmer

• Kvantkommunikation och cybersäkerhet

Portföljen kombinerar globala teknikledare med mycket forskning och utveckling inom kvantum såsom IBM och Google, med mer nischade, snabbväxande bolag som IonQ, Rigetti och D-Wave.

Skillnader mot andra liknande ETFer

I enlighet med Boreas devis om att vara ”true to theme” i sin ETF-design fokuserar fonden på att enbart inkludera de bolag som är absolut mest relevanta mot utvecklingen av framförallt Quantum Computing hårdvara så som mikrochip (QPU’s). Portföljen är framtagen med hjälp av Solactives natural language processing verktyg ARTIS och vikterna i portföljen är enligt varje bolags relevans mot temat.

Fonden rebalanseras två gånger om året vilket möjliggör att snabbt snappa upp nykomlingar och bolag som snabbt gör framsteg inom temat. Med hjälp av ARTIS-verktyget kan på så sätt relevanta bolag snabbt få ökad vikt och mindre framgångsrika bolag få mindre.

Andra liknande fonder fokuserar ofta på bolag med mest patent inom kvantum. Detta kan leda till att bolag som främst använder kvantum hamnar i de portföljerna, medans Boreas fond fokuserar på de bolag som leder utvecklingen inom kvantumteknologin. Många av bolagen konkurrerar om att bli ”nästa NVIDIA” och leda en ny generations mikrochip.

Med en total kostnad (TER) på 0,49 % erbjuder fonden ett konkurrenskraftigt sätt att få exponering mot ett komplext och snabbt utvecklande tema.

Ett tema för långsiktiga investerare

Kvantteknologi ses i allt större utsträckning som en strategisk nyckelindustri, inte minst i takt med diskussionen om “Q-Day” – den punkt då kvantdatorer kan bryta dagens krypteringssystem.

För investerare innebär detta både risker och möjligheter. Som tematisk investering är ETFen särskilt lämpad som ett komplement – en så kallad satellitallokering – till bredare aktieportföljer. Trots att forskningen inom kvantdatorer har pågått i över 45 år är det en teknologi i tidigt skede där en klar vinnare ännu inte korats. Det gör temat volatilt och extra känsligt för positiva såväl som negativa nyheter.

Slutsats

Med lanseringen på Xetra blir kvantinvesteringar nu mer tillgängliga för europeiska investerare. För den som vill positionera sig inför nästa stora teknologiska skifte erbjuder Boreas kvant-ETF en enkel väg in i ett område som kan definiera framtidens ekonomi.

Namn: Boreas Solactive Quantum Computing UCITS ETF USD (Acc)

Ticker: QQCC

Handelsplats: Xetra

Handla QQCC ETF

Boreas Solactive Quantum Computing UCITS ETF USD (Acc) (QQCC ETF) är en europeisk börshandlad fond. Denna fond handlas på flera olika börser, till exempel Deutsche Boerse Xetra.

Det betyder att det går att handla andelar i denna ETF genom de flesta svenska banker och Internetmäklare, till exempel  Nordnet, SAVR, DEGIRO och Avanza.

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