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Bats, a CBOE Holdings, Inc. company, and a leading market for exchange-traded product (ETP) trading globally, today welcomed new issuer SportsETFs to the Bats ETF Marketplace with the launch of one fund.
The Pro Sports Sponsors ETF (Bats: FANZ) seeks to provide investment results that, before fees and expenses, track the total return performance of the Pro Sports Sponsors Index. The Index is designed to measure the performance of companies which are official sponsors of the major professional football, baseball, hockey and basketball leagues in the United States or national sports broadcasters with rights agreements with such leagues. More information is available here.
Laura Morrison, Senior Vice President, Global Head of Exchange-Traded Products at Bats: “Through ETFs, investors of every sort can easily access creative investment ideas through cost-competitive, highly liquid products – as epitomized by FANZ. We’re doubly thrilled that SportsETFs has chosen Bats as the listing venue for this, their first fund, and look forward to working them in the future.”
Year-to-date, Bats has welcomed 44 ETFs to its U.S. market. In the second quarter of 2017, Bats welcomed a total of 26
ETFs to the Bats ETF Marketplace, and year-to-date has won 38 percent of all new U.S. ETF listings. There are now 184
ETFs listed on Bats ETF Marketplace, from 36 different issuers.
Additional information regarding listing and trading on the Bats ETF Marketplace is available on ETFMarketplace.com. Firms interested in listing products with Bats may email listings@bats.com.
