{"id":19323,"date":"2018-12-06T17:12:26","date_gmt":"2018-12-06T17:12:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/starthostunlimiteddmffassi-ss.stackstaging.com\/etfworld.co.uk\/?p=19323"},"modified":"2020-05-12T10:59:23","modified_gmt":"2020-05-12T09:59:23","slug":"amun-ag-hires-taeyong-lee-in-global-etf-etp-role-after-launching-the-worlds-first-crypto-currency-index-etp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.etfworld.com\/nl\/amun-ag-hires-taeyong-lee-in-global-etf-etp-role-after-launching-the-worlds-first-crypto-currency-index-etp\/","title":{"rendered":"Amun AG hires Taeyong Lee in global ETF &#038; ETP role  after launching the world\u2019s first crypto-currency index ETP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Amun AG has hired Taeyong Lee as Managing Director &amp; Global Head of ETFs and ETPs&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"\/newsletter\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"color: #99cc00;\">Sign up for our weekly Newsletter and receive the latest ETF and ETC news. <span style=\"color: #99cc00;\"><span style=\"color: #99cc00;\"><strong>Click here to register for your free copy<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Taeyong Lee<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Lee joins the Amun team in preparation for a new suite of financial products in the form of exchange traded products (ETPs<\/strong>) that will be rolled out over the coming months, in addition to the Crypto Basket Index ETP. Lee has over 20 years\u2019 experience in the exchange-traded products space.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Prior to joining Amun, he was President and Global Head of ETFs for Mirae Asset Global Investments, where he led the expansion of its global ETF expansion into 6 countries: Canada (Horizons), US, Colombia, Hong Kong, Korea, and Australia (BetaShares), managing over $30 billion USD assets with almost 280 ETP listings. Prior to Mirae Asset, he also worked at the US ETF company, ProShares, where he was a main developer of the America&#8217;s first leveraged and inverse ETFs.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Hany Rashwan, CEO of Amun, said:<\/strong> \u201cTaeyong\u2019s deep knowledge and experience in the exchange-traded product industry makes him a natural addition to our leadership team. Amun has created a world first with our first crypto index product and Taeyong\u2019s experience and vision will help us take our mission to make investing in crypto as easy as buying a stock to new heights.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Taeyong Lee, Managing Director &amp; Global Head of ETFs and ETPs, said: <\/strong>\u201cI am extremely excited about joining Amun where I can maximize my contributions in combining the revolutionary world of crypto into one of the most innovative investment vehicles. I look forward to making Amun\u2019s vision of simplifying crypto investments a reality.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Amun\u2019s first ETP was listed on the 22nd of November on the SIX Swiss Exchange with the bell-ringing ceremony and first day of trading happening on the 22nd of November. It is a physically fully-backed product that tracks the price of a basket of up to the top five most eligible crypto-currencies, which today includes Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, and Ripple. The Amun Crypto Basket Index ETP has comparable characteristics as a physical gold-backed ETP.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Source: ETFWorld.co.uk<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amun AG has hired Taeyong Lee as Managing Director &amp; Global Head of ETFs and ETPs&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":19255,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"telegram_tosend":false,"telegram_tosend_message":"","telegram_tosend_target":0,"footnotes":"","_wpscp_schedule_draft_date":"","_wpscp_schedule_republish_date":"","_wpscppro_advance_schedule":false,"_wpscppro_advance_schedule_date":"","_wpscppro_dont_share_socialmedia":false,"_wpscppro_custom_social_share_image":0,"_facebook_share_type":"","_twitter_share_type":"","_linkedin_share_type":"","_pinterest_share_type":"","_linkedin_share_type_page":"","_instagram_share_type":"","_medium_share_type":"","_threads_share_type":"","_google_business_share_type":"","_selected_social_profile":[],"_wpsp_enable_custom_social_template":false,"_wpsp_social_scheduling":{"enabled":false,"datetime":null,"platforms":[],"status":"template_only","dateOption":"today","timeOption":"now","customDays":"","customHours":"","customDate":"","customTime":"","schedulingType":"absolute"},"_wpsp_active_default_template":true},"categories":[38],"tags":[253,254,255,256],"class_list":["post-19323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nominaties","tag-amun","tag-amun-etp","tag-crypto-currency-index-etp","tag-six"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":6}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etfworld.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etfworld.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etfworld.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etfworld.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etfworld.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19323"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.etfworld.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19328,"href":"https:\/\/www.etfworld.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19323\/revisions\/19328"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etfworld.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etfworld.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etfworld.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etfworld.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}