<p><strong>Recent years have seen a surge of thematic investments popularity. These strategies allocate assets into stocks or other investments based on specific business sectors or themes, intending to benefit from the materialization of trends, technological innovation, and advancements. Emerging technologies, for example, are increasingly becoming part of our daily lives, and, therefore, the demand for disruptive materials, such as metals, minerals and other elements, grow. Within this context, Solactive is pleased to announce that Global X ETFs launches today the Global X Disruptive Materials ETF (DMAT) tracking the Solactive Disruptive Materials Index. The selection of the companies utilizes Solactive’s proprietary Natural Language Processing Engine ARTIS®.</strong></p>