Webcast: Stay at Home = Shop at Home: Online Retail
Join hosts Christian Magoon, Founder and CEO of Amplify ETFs and Jane Edmondson, Founder and CEO of for an indepth webcast covering the changing landscape of retail.
Join hosts Christian Magoon, Founder and CEO of Amplify ETFs and Jane Edmondson, Founder and CEO of for an indepth webcast covering the changing landscape of retail.
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One of the biggest beneficiaries of the COVID-19 global pandemic, stay-at-home economy has been online commerce. Online retail was already the fastest-growing segment of retail sales, but as physical stores were shuttered and consumers were forced to shelter in place, online retail became a lifeline.
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The performance spread between traditional brick-and-mortar retail and online clicks retail is more than 15% this year, with the S&P Retail Select Index down 0.67% versus a 14.6% gain for the EQM Online Retail Index.
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EQM Indexes, the firm I co-founded, launched the EQM Online Retail Index (IBUYXT) back in December 1, 2015. It was our first ETF index and we licensed it to a new player in the ETF industry at the time, Amplify ETFs. Amplify was founded in February of 2016 by ETF industry veteran Christian Magoon who has launched over 50 ETFs at the time. The Amplify Online Retail ETF (IBUY) was the first ETF launched on their now $700 million+ ETF platform.