Three exciting new ETFs

These new exchange-traded funds give you the opportunity to invest in some interesting sectors.

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Boeing is a big holding for BlackRock iShare's ETF
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Exchange-traded fund (ETF) new issues continue to flood on to the market, with most weeks bringing a gaggle of new ideas. A few have caught my eye. Take CoCo (contingent convertible) bonds, for instance. These are a new-fangled funding device for big banks looking to raise Tier 1 capital (this is the capital regulators look at when judging banks' financial stability). In the event of a deep downturn and escalating bank losses, CoCo bonds would convert into shares. They are, in effect, hybrid securities, with some of the risks of equity but the upside in terms of income of fixed-income bonds.

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David C. Stevenson
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David Stevenson has been writing the Financial Times Adventurous Investor column for nearly 15 years and is also a regular columnist for Citywire. He writes his own widely read Adventurous Investor SubStack newsletter at davidstevenson.substack.com

David has also had a successful career as a media entrepreneur setting up the big European fintech news and event outfit www.altfi.com as well as www.etfstream.com in the asset management space. 

Before that, he was a founding partner in the Rocket Science Group, a successful corporate comms business. 

David has also written a number of books on investing, funds, ETFs, and stock picking and is currently a non-executive director on a number of stockmarket-listed funds including Gresham House Energy Storage and the Aurora Investment Trust. 

In what remains of his spare time he is a presiding justice on the Southampton magistrates bench.