Click here to download Charting Disruption: Q3 2020

We are pleased to present the newest edition of our quarterly thematic flipbook: Charting Disruption. Each quarter, we publish a series of slides that touch on trends that we see as relevant to the themes covered by our Thematic Growth ETF suite. Each slide touches on a single theme, containing charts, tables and other graphics. At the top of each slide, we explain what the trends mean broadly, as well as our own take on them.

This quarter’s edition covers:

  • E-Commerce: Rethinking Retail in the Reopening Economy
  • Cloud Computing: The Engine Behind Work-From-Home & Remote Work
  • Internet of Things: Connected Tech Can Help Reopening Efforts
  • Education: An Industry Ripe for Tech Transformation
  • Telemedicine & Digital Health: COVID-19 Set Disruption In Motion
  • Video Games & Esports: Gaming Sales Soar
  • Video Games & Esports: Audiences Remain Above Pre-Pandemic Levels
  • Cybersecurity: Securing Technology Critical to Reopening
  • Genomics: Genome Sequencing Key to Surveillance, Diagnostics
  • Genomics: Developing Potential Treatments & Vaccines for COVID-19
  • Millennials: Pandemic Accelerated or Reversed Certain Behaviors
  • Electric Vehicles & Lithium Battery Tech: Current Resilience & Future Demands
  • FinTech: Contactless Payment Volumes Rise as Adoption Increases
  • Robotics & Artificial Intelligence: Enhancing Business Continuity & Enabling Supply Chain Reshoring

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Video Game and Esports and Cybersecurity Companies are subject to risks associated with additional regulatory oversight with regard to privacy/cybersecurity concerns, shifting consumer preferences, and potential licensing challenges. Declining or fluctuating subscription renewal rates for products/services or the loss or impairment of intellectual property rights could adversely affect profits. Thematic companies may have limited product lines, markets, financial resources or personnel. They typically engage in significant amounts of spending on research and development, capital expenditures and mergers and acquisitions.

The risks related to investing in cloud computing companies include disruption in service caused by hardware or software failure, interruptions or delays in service by third-party data center hosting facilities and maintenance providers, security breaches involving certain private, sensitive, proprietary and confidential information managed and transmitted by cloud computing companies, and privacy concerns and laws, evolving Internet regulation and other foreign or domestic regulations that may limit or otherwise affect the operations of such companies. Education companies may be affected by changes in demographics and consumer demands, and government regulations, programs and policies.

Investing in securities engaged in the social media industry include disruption in service caused by hardware or software failure; interruptions or delays in service by third-parties; security breaches involving certain private, sensitive, proprietary and confidential information managed and transmitted by social media companies; and privacy concerns and laws, evolving Internet regulation and other foreign or domestic regulations that may limit or otherwise affect the operations of such companies. Health Care and Information Technology sectors can be affected by government regulations, rapid product obsolescence, intense industry competition and loss or impairment of patents or intellectual property rights.

Information Technology companies can be affected by rapid product obsolescence, and intense industry competition. Risks include disruption in service caused by hardware or software failure; interruptions or delays in service by third-parties; security breaches involving certain private, sensitive, proprietary and confidential information managed and transmitted; and privacy concerns and laws, evolving Internet regulation and other foreign or domestic regulations that may limit or otherwise affect the operations.

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