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Bitwise Index Services, a subsidiary of Bitwise Asset Management, announced the launch of three additional indexes covering the mid-cap, small-cap, and total-market segments of the cryptoasset market as well as the renaming of the HOLD 10 Index.

The Bitwise Crypto Index family now features:

• Bitwise 20 Mid Cap Crypto Index (BITW20),
• Bitwise 70 Small Cap Crypto Index (BITW70),
• Bitwise 100 Total Market Crypto Index (BITW100),
• and Bitwise 10 Large Cap Crypto Index (BITX), formerly the Bitwise HOLD 10 Index.

The Bitwise Crypto Indexes are broadly available throughout the financial ecosystem, including via Bloomberg, Reuters, FactSet, and other data aggregators, as well as the Bitwise website and API.

The Bitwise Crypto Indexes capture the investable cryptoasset market as measured and weighted by free-float and five-year inflation-adjusted market capitalization. The index methodology features rules that mitigate risks surrounding liquidity, security, exchange concentration, regulatory status, and more, and aim to fully capture the investable cryptomarket opportunity.

Bitwise performs extensive research on more than 250 cryptoassets in the course of building its indexes, and consolidates pricing on thousands of individual crypto pairs representing 99.9% of all eligible cryptoasset volume.

Loncar China BioPharma ETF Launches on Nasdaq

The Loncar China BioPharma ETF (CHNA) is now trading on the Nasdaq in the United States.

The CHNA ETF seeks to give investors access to China's rapidly-developing biopharmaceutical industry. It is based on the Loncar China BioPharma Index, an index developed by biotechnology investor Brad Loncar.

The fund invests in 28 companies, 22 of which are listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange and six of which are listed on Nasdaq, offering investors distinct, global exposure through the convenience of one security.

CHNA has an expense ratio of 0.79%.

Exchange Traded Concepts, which acts as a portal to launch new, custom exchange-traded funds efficiently and cost-effectively through a complete turnkey solution, partnered with Loncar Investments on the launch of the fund.

Vestmark Announces Innovative Options Trading and Risk Management Capabilities

Vestmark announced a new release of the VestmarkONE platform that includes a highly advanced options trading module for retail managed accounts.

The latest VestmarkONE module enables advisors to scale options trading by eliminating the need to trade options account by account.

Now, hundreds or even thousands of accounts can be traded at once, without impacting accounts following models, avoiding false rebalancing alerts or model drift notifications.

This capability allows advisors to more efficiently use options in advisor-managed programs, and facilitates the use of option strategies in centrally managed and separately managed account programs as well.

Along with these block trading capabilities, the module provides corresponding automated risk management features which can be configured to automatically encumber securities underlying the contracts such as covered calls to prevent over exposed positions. These auto risk features also can perform pre-trade compliance checks to ensure strategies are allowed by the account's option level prior to placing trades, and they can proactively identify accounts with expiring options to allow advisors to manage those contracts.

—Read last week's portfolio product roundup here: WisdomTree Launches Two Actively Managed Multifactor ETFs: Portfolio Products