SEOUL, South Korea–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Sep 1, 2022–
CT Investments, a subsidiary of Contents Applied sciences, introduced as we speak that it’s launching the KPOP and Korean Leisure ETF on the NYSE Arca trade on September 1, 2022. With the launch of the KPOP and Korean Leisure ETF, buyers now have the flexibility to entry Korea Trade-listed corporations within the leisure and interactive media industries which have publicity to the potential progress in Ok-pop and the broader Korean content material business.
The KPOP and Korean Leisure ETF begins buying and selling on Thursday, September 1, 2022 on the NYSE Arca trade underneath the ticker KPOP.
The KPOP and Korean Leisure ETF (NYSE Arca: KPOP) seeks to supply outcomes that, earlier than charges and bills, correspond typically to the full return efficiency of the KPOP Index, which is designed to supply publicity to the Korea Trade-listed leisure and interactive media & providers corporations engaged in Ok-pop companies. The KPOP and Korean Leisure ETF targets weights between 70% and 80% within the leisure business and between 20% and 30% within the interactive media & providers business and the index is quarterly rebalanced.
Jangwon Lee, the CEO of CT Investments and Contents Applied sciences, acknowledged that “Ok-pop, which has turn into a worldwide key phrase, has turn into a part of mainstream tradition for followers in Korea in addition to world wide.” He added, “We’re launching this ETF to supply a possibility for international followers who love Ok-pop to take part within the potential progress and improvement of the Ok-pop business in addition to buyers entry to Korea-listed corporations which can be driving the way forward for international content material business ahead.”
Worldwide gross sales of music information from Korean leisure corporations topped $221 million in 2021 from $24 million in 2012, with important progress coming from a few of the world’s largest music markets in North America and Europe, reinforcing the pattern of Ok-pop resonating with mainstream tradition. 1 “The worldwide marketplace for Ok-pop continues to be at an early stage of progress and the KPOP and Korean Leisure ETF will supply thematic publicity to key corporations within the Korean leisure and media business that stand to profit from this secular pattern,” mentioned Jangwon Lee.
For additional details about the KPOP and Korean Leisure ETF, please go to kpopetf.com.
About CT Investments
Established in 2022, CT Investments is an entirely owned subsidiary and the asset administration arm of Contents Applied sciences.
About Content material Applied sciences
Established in 2020, Contents Applied sciences (CT) is a next-generation content material firm that builds and invests in IPs in addition to know-how/finance/service-oriented companies inside the content material worth chain. CT is dedicated to innovation, know-how, artistry, entrepreneurship, and offering providers that may develop industrial alternatives for creators and artists in addition to providing distinctive experiences to broaden fan engagement. CT at present acquires and manages one of many largest portfolios of music copyrights and neighboring rights in South Korea and has made strategic investments throughout music manufacturing, music tech, creator economic system, VFX, Web3, and gaming.
Disclosure
Traders ought to think about the funding targets, dangers, fees and bills rigorously earlier than investing. For a prospectus or abstract prospectus with this and different details about the Fund, please go to our web site at kpopetf.com. Learn the prospectus or abstract prospectus rigorously earlier than investing.
Investing entails danger, together with attainable lack of principal. There is no such thing as a assure the Fund will obtain their acknowledged targets. Along with the conventional dangers related to investing, worldwide investments could contain the chance of capital loss from unfavorable fluctuation in foreign money values, variations in typically accepted accounting rules or social, financial or political instability in different nations. Rising markets contain heightened dangers associated to the identical components in addition to elevated volatility and decrease buying and selling quantity. The Fund’s focus in an business or sector can enhance the influence of, and potential losses related to, the dangers from investing in these industries/sectors.
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The Fund is non-diversified. The Fund is new and have restricted working histories for buyers to guage. A brand new and smaller fund could not appeal to adequate property to attain funding and buying and selling efficiencies. Along with the conventional dangers related to investing, investments in smaller corporations sometimes exhibit increased volatility.
The Fund could put money into securities denominated in foreign currency. As a result of the Fund’s NAV is set in U.S. {dollars}, the Fund’s NAV might decline if currencies of the underlying securities depreciate in opposition to the U.S. greenback or if there are delays or limits on repatriation of such currencies. Foreign money trade charges could be very unstable and might change rapidly and unpredictably.
Trade Traded Ideas, LLC. serves because the funding advisor to the Fund. The Fund is distributed by SEI Investments Distribution Co., (SIDCO) 1 Freedom Valley Drive, Oaks, PA 19456. SIDCO just isn’t affiliated with Trade Traded Ideas, LLC. or CT Investments, Inc.
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