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The COVID-19 Pandemic: Helping Those Who Suffer in Silence – Psychiatry Advisor

Posted: March 31, 2021 at 6:05 am

Sandhya Prashad, MD is medical director at Houston Ketamine Therapeutics and Houston Deep Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) Therapy.

There is no question that the pandemic has shaped myriad aspects of life as we know it, including significantly impacting the mental health care industry. While the unprecedented events have resulted in mental health challenges, it has also delivered growth in the area as well.

In fact, the appetite for treatment has increased so much that providers are finding it challenging to accommodate the surge of requested appointments.1 This new found openness among patients to explore therapy has served as a means to deliver more care to those who have lived in silence for years due to either apprehension around going into an office or limited understanding around just how far treatment options have come.

Teletherapy has helped shepherd more patients through the door

Leveraging teletherapy has helped providers and patients troubleshoot the common concerns around social distancing and, ultimately, could be credited with getting many first-time patients in the virtual door. In fact, the use of teletherapy saw a 154% increase in March 2020 when compared to the same period in 2019.2 The ability to connect with patients in the comfort and privacy of their own homes allowed providers to build rapport over time and helped spark many overdue conversations around tailored options for treatment. While the convenience of teletherapy is likely to foster continued use long after the pandemic subsides, it is important for providers to remind patients that it is not a direct substitute for an in-person visit nor is it the only form of treatment available.

Taking the next step in treatment with the latest technology

Marrying the increased desire to speak with providers and the ability to ease into sessions via virtual visits, providers like myself have a unique opportunity to begin educating patients that mental health treatment is not a one-size-fits-all approach. Studies have shown that depression symptom prevalence is more than 3-fold higher3 during the COVID-19 pandemic, and because more than 40% of people with major depressive disorder (MDD)4 find they are treatment-resistant, there is a growing need to foster education among patients regarding other available options when there is an unresponsiveness to traditional methods.5 These options include deep transcranial magnetic stimulation (Deep TMS), a noninvasive treatment process that is FDA-cleared for treating depression and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). While well-known within the mental health community, many patients are unaware of this successful treatment option which only takes 20-minutes per session.

In a study published by the Journal of Psychiatric Research, Deep TMS therapy combined with standard medication for MDD was found to be significantly more effective than standard pharmacotherapy alone, reducing the symptoms of close to two-thirds of participants battling depression.6 Deep TMS is a great example of how far we have come in treatment offerings, showing patients that there are treatments that do not require downtime, are noninvasive, and offer virtually no discomfort.

Moving forward in the new normal

While we as a society are working hard to leave the pandemic behind as a footnote in history, we as mental health professionals have been given a catalyst for a mental health movement. The pandemic has helped break down barriers such as the stigma around treatment, access to care in terms of proximity and available time, and even common misconceptions of what it means to receive treatment for depression. It is our responsibility as those committed to improving mental health to look for every opportunity we can to serve and educate, and the pandemic has certainly provided us with a platform.

Sandhya Prashad, MD is a board-certified psychiatrist specializing in interventional modalities for treatment-resistant disorders with a particular interest and expertise in ketamine therapy. She is the founder and medical director of Sandhya J. Prashad, MD, Houston Ketamine Therapeutics, and Houston TMS Therapeutics. Dr Prashad currently serves as president of The American Society of Ketamine Physicians, Psychotherapists and Practitioners.

References

1. Caron C. Nobody Has Openings: Mental Health Providers Struggle to Meet Demand. The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/17/well/mind/therapy-appointments-shortages-pandemic.html. Published online February 17, 2021. Accessed February 17, 2021

2. Koonin LM, Hoots B, Tsang CA, et al. Trends in the use of telehealth during the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic United States, JanuaryMarch 2020. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2020;69:15951599. doi:10.15585/mmwr.mm6943a3

3. Ettman CK, Abdalla SM, Cohen GH, Sampson L, Vivier PM, Galea S. Prevalence of depression symptoms in US adults before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. JAMA Netw Open. 2020;3(9):e2019686. doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.19686

4. Major Depressive Disorder and TMS Treatment. Brainsway. https://www.brainsway.com/knowledge-center/major-depressive-disorder-tms-treatment/. Accessed February 9, 2019

5. Jaffe DH, Rive B, Denee TR. The humanistic and economic burden of treatment-resistant depression in Europe: a cross-sectional study. BMC Psychiatry. 19, 247 (2019). doi:10.1186/s12888-019-2222-4

6. Filipi I, imunovi Filipi I, Milovaca Z, et al. Efficacy of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation using a figure-8-coil or an H1-Coil in treatment of major depressive disorder; A randomized clinical trial. J. Psychiatr. Res. 2019;114:113-119. doi:10.1016/j.jpsychires.2019.04.020

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Transcranial Magnetic Stimulators (TMS) Market 2021 Will Reflect Significant Growth in Future with Size, Share, Growth, and Key Companies Analysis-…

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The major players of the Transcranial Magnetic Stimulators (TMS) market are:

YiruideNeuroneticsMagstimBrainswayMagVentureeNeuraRemedNeurosoftDr. Langer MedicalNexstimYiruide

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The COVID-19 pandemic had forced government state bodies across the globe to impose lockdown, which in turn, derailed the entire economy. Manufacturing facilities, schools, colleges, and offices witnessed a complete shutdown for few months in 2020. This resulted in the slowdown in the sales of products, which majorly impacted the growth rate of the market. Conversely, new market opportunities were explored and indeed created lucrative opportunities for the industry players.

The COVID-19 chapter covers the impact of pandemic on the market in a detailed manner. This includes product launches and strategies implemented by the industry players in the trying times. It discusses new market avenues, revenue drivers, untapped opportunities, and top-winning strategies in the market.

The research team has monitored the market closely in COVID-19 pandemic and conducted interviews with the market experts to understand the impact of coronavirus pandemic on the Transcranial Magnetic Stimulators (TMS) market. Moreover, the market provides information on the long-term challenges industry players is anticipated to face due to the pandemic.

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This part of the report covers the raw materials used for the products, supply & demand scenario, and potential applications of the products in the coming years. The market segmentation also provides in-depth insights on the regional market performance. This means that the regional landscape covers products sales in terms of volume and revenue from 2017 to 2020. Moreover, it provides insights on the expected performance of the product segment during the forecast period.

The global Transcranial Magnetic Stimulators (TMS) report gives in detailed insights on the regional landscape, which involves determining the potential of worth of investment in the particular region/country. Moreover, it gives out information about the market share of the industry players in the particular region.

Products

STMSPTMSRTMSnTMS

Applications

DepressionTinnitusAlzheimerParkinsons DiseasePsychiatric DisordersHeadacheStroke

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North AmericaEuropeAsia PacificMiddle East & AfricaLatin America

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Executive Summary

Assumptions and Acronyms Used

Research Methodology

Transcranial Magnetic Stimulators (TMS) Market Overview

Global Transcranial Magnetic Stimulators (TMS) Market Analysis and Forecast by Type

Global Transcranial Magnetic Stimulators (TMS) Market Analysis and Forecast by Application

Global Transcranial Magnetic Stimulators (TMS) Market Analysis and Forecast by Sales Channel

Global Transcranial Magnetic Stimulators (TMS) Market Analysis and Forecast by Region

North America Transcranial Magnetic Stimulators (TMS) Market Analysis and Forecast

Latin America Transcranial Magnetic Stimulators (TMS) Market Analysis and Forecast

Europe Transcranial Magnetic Stimulators (TMS) Market Analysis and Forecast

Asia Pacific Transcranial Magnetic Stimulators (TMS) Market Analysis and Forecast

Asia Pacific Transcranial Magnetic Stimulators (TMS) Market Size and Volume Forecast by Application

Middle East & Africa Transcranial Magnetic Stimulators (TMS) Market Analysis and Forecast

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Where Will Edap Tms SA (EDAP) Stock Go Next After It Is Higher By 19.44% in a Week? – InvestorsObserver

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The market has been high on Edap Tms SA (EDAP) stock recently. EDAP gets a Bullish score from InvestorsObserver's Stock Sentiment Indicator.

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Changes in price are generally the best indicator of sentiment for a particular stock. At its core, a stock's trend indicates whether current market sentiment is bullish or bearish. Investors must be bullish if a stock is trending upward, and are bearish if a stock is moving down.

InvestorsObserver's Sentiment Indicator factors in both price changes and variations in volume. An increase in volume usually means a current trend is stengthening, while a drop in volume tends to signal a reversal to the ongoing trend.

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Edap Tms SA (EDAP) stock is trading at $9.34 as of 12:34 PM on Tuesday, Mar 30, a loss of -$0.34, or -3.55% from the previous closing price of $9.68. The stock has traded between $9.02 and $9.75 so far today. Volume today is 352,472 compared to average volume of 291,615.

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Edap TMS SAis a holding company operating in two divisions namely, High Intensity Focused Ultrasound (HIFU) and Urology Devices and Services (UDS). The HIFU division develops, manufactures and markets devices for the invasive destruction of certain types of tumors using HIFU technology. It markets two HIFU devices: the Ablatherm, treatment of organ-confined prostate cancer; and the Focal One, for the focal therapy of localized prostate cancer destroying targeted cancer cells only. The UDS division develops, markets, manufactures and services medical devices for the invasive diagnosis or treatment of urological disorders, mainly urinary stones, and other clinical indications. The business of the presence of the firm are sen Asia, France, United States and other regions.

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Talent Management Software (TMS) Market explored in the latest research report by Read Market Research- Cornerstone Ondemand, IBM, Lumesse and Others…

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Global Talent Management Software (TMS) Market to witnessed good recovery in growth and projected coverup market sizing during the forecast period (2020-2027). The assessment provides a 360 view and insights outlining the key outcomes of the Talent Management Software (TMS) market, current scenario analysis that highlights slowdown aims to provide unique strategies and solutions following and benchmarking key players strategies. In addition, the study helps with competition insights of emerging players in understanding the companies more precisely to make better informed decisions. some of the key players that are part of coverage are Cornerstone Ondemand, IBM, Lumesse, Oracle, Peoplefluent, Skillsoft, Saba, SAP Successfactors, Talentsoft, Halogen.

COVID-19 can affect the global economy in 3 main ways: by directly affecting production and demand, by creating supply chain and market disturbance, and by its financial impact on firms and financial markets

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On the basis of product, this report displays the production, revenue, price, market share and growth rate of each type:

Professional Services, Training And Education, Support And Maintenance

On the basis of applications, the market has been segmented into:

BFSI, Healthcare, IT And Telecom, Retail, Manufacturing, Education, Government, Media And Entertainment

Top Companies covered in the report: Cornerstone Ondemand, IBM, Lumesse, Oracle, Peoplefluent, Skillsoft, Saba, SAP Successfactors, Talentsoft, Halogen

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Research Methodology:

Years considered for the study are:Historical year 2016-2019Disreputable year 2020Estimate period** 2020 to 2027 [** unless otherwise stated]

Primary Research:

The primary sources involve the industry experts from the Global Talent Management Software (TMS) industry including the management organizations, processing organizations, analytics service providers of the industrys value chain. All primary sources were interviewed to gather and authenticate qualitative & quantitative information and determine the future prospects.In the extensive primary research process undertaken for this study, the primary sources industry experts such as CEOs, vice presidents, marketing director, technology & innovation directors, founders and related key executives from various key companies and organizations in the Global Talent Management Software (TMS) industry have been interviewed to obtain and verify both qualitative and quantitative aspects of this research study.

Secondary Research:

In the Secondary research crucial information about the industries value chain, total pool of key players, and application areas. It also assisted in market segmentation according to industry trends to the bottom-most level, geographical markets and key developments from both market and technology-oriented perspectives.

Table of ContentsGlobal Talent Management Software (TMS) Market Research Report 2020-2027, by Manufacturers, Regions, Types and Applications

1 Talent Management Software (TMS) Market Overview1.1 Introduction1.2 Scope1.3 Assumptions1.4 Players Covered1.5 Market Analysis By Type1.5.1 Global Talent Management Software (TMS) Market Size Growth Rate By Type (2020-2027)1.5.2 1.6 Market By Application1.6.1 Global Talent Management Software (TMS) Market Share By Application (2020-2027)1.6.2 Application I1.6.3 Application Ii1.6.4 1.7 Study Objectives1.8 Years

2 Executive Summary

3 Talent Management Software (TMS) Market Analysis By Type (Historic 2016-2020)3.1 Global Talent Management Software (TMS) Market Size Analysis (USD Million) 2016-20203.1.1 Type I3.1.2 Type II3.2 Global Talent Management Software (TMS) Market Share Analysis By Type (%) 2016-2020

4 Talent Management Software (TMS) Market Analysis By Application (Historic 2016-2020)4.1 Global Talent Management Software (TMS) Market Size Analysis (USD Million) 2016-2019

5 Talent Management Software (TMS) Market Analysis By Regions (Historic 2016-2020)5.1 Global Talent Management Software (TMS) Market Size Analysis (USD Million) 2016-20205.1.1 Talent Management Software (TMS) Market Share By Regions (2016-2020)5.1.2 United States5.1.3 Europe5.1.4 China5.1.5 Japan5.1.6 India5.1.7 Rest Of The World

6 Key Companies Analysis/Company Profile

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NASA’s Mars helicopter is slowly unfolding beneath the Perseverance rover – Space.com

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NASA's Perseverance rover is slowly getting ready to deploy the first helicopter on Mars even as it takes a look back at the litter it's dropping on the Red Planet.

The rover, which was carefully sterilized on Earth to avoid contaminating Mars with microbes, dropped a protective debris shield onto the planet's surface on March 21. The shield is no longer needed as it was designed to protect Ingenuity during the "seven minutes of terror" landing in February.

An image from the WATSON (Wide Angle Topographic Sensor for Operations and engineering) camera on the rover's robotic arm shows the debris shield safely on the surface of Jezero Crater, between the rover's six wheels. It's the second thing Perseverance dropped in recent weeks, after an unneeded belly pan relating to its sampling system.

Video: Perseverance rover's latest tracks & Mars 'litter' (with Sol 16 audio)

"Away goes the debris shield, and here's our first look at the helicopter," the Perseverance Twitter account tweeted March 21.

In a series of images from Perseverance, the Mars helicopter can be seen slowly unfolding from its initial position on the rover's belly.

"It [the helicopter] is stowed sideways, folded up and locked in place, so there's some reverse origami to do before I can set it down. First though, I'll be off to the designated 'helipad,' a couple days' drive from here," Perseverance team members wrote on Twitter as the rover.

The Ingenuity helicopter is expected to attempt its first flight as soon as April 8, according to NASA, and it will be the first time an aircraft will attempt to fly through another world's atmosphere. "A couple more drives should get me there," the tweet added.

The rover is on a larger quest to seek signs of habitability in Jezero Crater, which appears to have been rich in water earlier in its history. Perseverance will cache the most promising samples it finds for a future sample-return mission to ferry back to Earth. As for Ingenuity, if it can fly it will hail a potential new generation of Martian explorers that can scout ahead of rovers and even humans, in the decades to come, to make surface exploration easier.

NASA plans to start the Ingenuity flight campaign no earlier than April 8, assuming that Perseverance will be able to deploy the helicopter safely on the surface a complicated six-sol or Martian day process. (A sol is roughly 24 hours, 40 minutes of Earth time.) Perseverance and Ingenuity are also working mostly on their own, as radio communications must send preprogrammed instructions to Mars, which is several minutes' light speed away from us.

Perseverance teams are working on Mars time for a few months to make the most of the mission start, and hope to get Ingenuity off the ground within 30 sols or 31 Earth days of the drone's deployment.

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US, China consulted on safety as their craft headed to Mars – ABC News

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As their respective spacecraft headed to Mars, China and the U.S. held consultations earlier this year in a somewhat unusual series of exchanges between the rivals

ByThe Associated Press

March 31, 2021, 8:15 AM

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BEIJING -- As their respective spacecraft headed to Mars, China and the U.S. held consultations earlier this year in a somewhat unusual series of exchanges between the rivals.

China's National Space Agency confirmed Wednesday that it had working-level meetings and communications with NASA from January to March to ensure the flight safety" of their craft.

U.S. law bans almost all contacts between NASA and China over concerns about technology theft and the secretive, military-backed nature of Chinas space program.

However, exceptions can be made when NASA can certify to Congress that it has protections in place to safeguard information, acting NASA Administrator Steve Jurczyk said during a video meeting last week.

Jurczyk said the most recent exchange was about China providing orbital and other data for its Mars mission so they could analyze the risk of collision. We do have targeted engagement with them, he said.

His remarks were first reported by the SpaceNews website.

Jurczyk added that it will be up to the Biden administration and Congress to determine if and how the U.S. engages with China on non-military space activities as part of the nation's overall China strategy.

As the administration and Congress sets those policies, we look forward to how we can contribute in respect to civil space dialogue and collaboration with China, he said.

The area around Mars has become a bit more crowded this year with the arrival of spacecraft from the U.S., China and the U.A.E.

NASAs Perseverance rover landed on Mars in February and has begun exploration. China's Tianwen-1 is orbiting Mars in preparation for a landing in May or June. The U.A.E. craft is only orbiting and will not attempt to land.

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Ark Invest’s space exploration ETF ARKX begins trading today, slips 1% – CNBC

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Trading in the new space exploration ETF from Ark Invest began on Tuesday, as Cathie Wood's firm looks to tap the growing space industry.

"Space is already an invisible backbone to our economy and we think that's only going to become more so as [satellite] constellations launch," Ark Invest analyst Sam Korus told CNBC's Morgan Brennan on "Power Lunch."

Shares of ARKX slipped about 1% in its first day of trading, with the stock closing at $20.30 a share.

ARKX's 39 stocks includes pure-play space companies like Iridium and Virgin Galactic, as well as defense and aerospace giants such as Kratos, L3Harris, Lockheed Martin and Boeing.

But the ETF also includes names not traditionally connected to the space industry, such Chinese e-commerce firms JD.com and Alibaba, or agriculture businesses like Trimble and Deere.

"We've all seen the memes going around on Twitter," Korus said, acknowledging public skepticism of ARKX's holdings.

"The fact that people are dismissing this out of hand is very reassuring to us, and kind of demonstrates the type of research that we're doing and how we can be unique," he added.

Korus gave the example of Netflix, which has a 1.25% weighting in ARKX.

"Netflix ... has 200 million paying subscribers. In the U.S. alone, there's over 40 million people who don't have access to broadband and so, if a satellite solution can bring access to those customers and expand the addressable market and the topline for Netflix, then this is something that is very important," Korus said.

While none of the seven SPACs that recently announced mergers with space companies are in ARKX, Korus noted that Ark is "constantly evaluating these companies."

"I think with SPACs it's important to remember that a lot these are almost at the pre-IPO stage," Korus said. "We really want to be sure that we're picking the winners long term, particularly in aerospace where many companies do go bust and things get delayed."

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Biden administration to continue the National Space Council – SpaceNews

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White House statement: "The National Space Council will be renewed to assist the president in generating national space policies, strategies, and synchronizing Americas space activities."

WASHINGTON In the wake of speculation that there would not be a National Space Council in the Biden administration, the White House confirmed March 29 that the council will be renewed.

The administrations decision to reestablish the council was first reported by Politico.

A National Security Council spokesman confirmed to SpaceNews that the administration will move forward to stand up the council and officials are still hashing out the details.

At a time of unprecedented activity and opportunity generated by Americas activities in space, the National Space Council will be renewed to assist the president in generating national space policies, strategies, and synchronizing Americas space activities, the spokesman said in a statement.

While we are still working details, we will tailor the Council to ensure we have representation that can address the priorities of the administration such as space-related science and technologies, space exploration, solutions to address climate change, ensuring economic and educational opportunities, building partnerships, cementing norms of behaviors in space, and addressing matters of national security efforts in space. This is not an all-inclusive list.

The National Space Council was created in 1989 during the George H.W. Bush administration, disbanded in 1993 and reestablished in June 2017 by the Trump administration.

Bidens National Space Council also continue the users advisory group. Jim Ellis, a retired U.S. Navy admiral who led the UAG during the Trump administration, told members of the group that there is a transition plan in the works, according to an email obtained by Politico.

The UAG includes representatives from the space industry, associations, manufacturers, educators, national security experts, and policy makers.

Space industry groups and lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have advocated for the continuation of the National Space Council to help coordinate civilian, commercial and national security efforts.

U.S. Sen. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.), ranking member of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, in a SpaceNews op-ed said the council helps keep space issues on the radar of our nations highest officials and encourage the coordination necessary to solve problems that cut across multiple federal agencies.

By law the National Space Council is chaired by the U.S. vice president and includes the secretaries of the Defense, Transportation, and Commerce Departments, the NASA administrator, as well as other principals with a role in space.

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The Launch Of The ARK Space Exploration ETF Could Be Just Days Away (ARKX) – TheStreet

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If you're someone who's waited patiently (or impatiently) for the launch of the ARK Space Exploration ETF (ARKX), your long wait may almost be over.

To provide a little background, ARK Invest filed to bring ARKX to market back in January. Not surprisingly, ETF investors lit up at the prospect of what would be the 8th ETF in ARK's lineup and the latest to follow the company's theme of "disruptive innovation". You could easily argue that there has never been an ETF that hasn't even launched yet that has generated this much buzz.

So, how do we know that the launch of ARKX may only be a few days away? There's some legal stuff involved here, so bear with me while I run through the details.

As I mentioned, ARK filed for the launch of ARKX back on January 13th.

ARK Space Exploration ETF SEC Filing

There's nothing terribly exciting about an SEC filing other than the fact that it essentially announces to the world that you want to launch an ETF. Most of the filing contains all the legalese, including what ultimately becomes the summary prospectus for the fund.

The time between the filing and the approval is when the SEC reviews it to make sure everything is on the up and up and the regulatory body has no objections to how the fund would operate. In most cases, the SEC approves the fund without objection, but this is the step in the process where all bitcoin ETF filings so far have gotten hung up.

Right on the first page of the filing is the section.

ARK Space Exploration ETF SEC Filing

It basically says that it will become effective 75 days after it was filed unless the SEC chooses to delay it (e.g. needs more time to review, has issues it wants addressed, etc.). If there are no delays, the filing becomes effective on that date.

75 days from January 13th is Monday, March 29th. That means ARKX could launch as soon as Monday.

Now, even if the ETF were to be officially approved on Monday doesn't mean it will. Some fund issuers choose to launch the minute it gets approved. Cathie Wood and ARK could very well do the same. They could also wait for as long as they want to launch it. That could include time needed to, for example, get all of their legal or marketing ducks in row before ARKX hits the marketplace.

If history is any guide, however, ARKX will probably be launched as soon as it gets approval.

With the last ETF that ARK launched, the ARK Fintech Innovation ETF (ARKF), the company filed with the SEC in November 2018. Final approval was given on January 30th, 2019 and the fund launched on February 4th, just 3 business days after approval. I imagine the same will be the case for ARKX.

Get ready! ARKX is coming soon!

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(Bloomberg) -- From his perch high above Midtown Manhattan, just across from Carnegie Hall, Bill Hwang was quietly building one of the worlds greatest fortunes.Even on Wall Street, few ever noticed him -- until suddenly, everyone did.Hwang and his private investment firm, Archegos Capital Management, are now at the center of one of the biggest margin calls of all time -- a multibillion-dollar fiasco involving secretive market bets that were dangerously leveraged and unwound in a blink.Hwangs most recent ascent can be pieced together from stocks dumped by banks in recent days -- ViacomCBS Inc., Discovery Inc. GSX Techedu Inc., Baidu Inc. -- all of which had soared this year, sometimes confounding traders who couldnt fathom why.One part of Hwangs portfolio, which has been traded in blocks since Friday by Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Morgan Stanley and Wells Fargo & Co., was worth almost $40 billion last week. Bankers reckon that Archegoss net capital -- essentially Hwangs wealth -- had reached north of $10 billion. And as disposals keep emerging, estimates of his firms total positions keep climbing: tens of billions, $50 billion, even more than $100 billion.It evaporated in mere days.Ive never seen anything like this -- how quiet it was, how concentrated, and how fast it disappeared, said Mike Novogratz, a career macro investor and former partner at Goldman Sachs whos been trading since 1994. This has to be one of the single greatest losses of personal wealth in history.Late Monday in New York, Archegos broke days of silence on the episode.This is a challenging time for the family office of Archegos Capital Management, our partners and employees, Karen Kessler, a spokesperson for the firm, said in an emailed statement. All plans are being discussed as Mr. Hwang and the team determine the best path forward.The cascade of trading losses has reverberated from New York to Zurich to Tokyo and beyond, and leaves myriad unanswered questions, including the big one: How could someone take such big risks, facilitated by so many banks, under the noses of regulators the world over?One part of the answer is that Hwang set up as a family office with limited oversight and then employed financial derivatives to amass big stakes in companies without ever having to disclose them. Another part is that global banks embraced him as a lucrative customer, despite a record of insider trading and attempted market manipulation that drove him out of the hedge fund business a decade ago.A disciple of hedge-fund legend Julian Robertson, Sung Kook Bill Hwang shuttered Tiger Asia Management and Tiger Asia Partners after settling an SEC civil lawsuit in 2012 accusing them of insider trading and manipulating Chinese banks stocks. Hwang and the firms paid $44 million, and he agreed to be barred from the investment advisory industry.He soon opened Archegos -- Greek for one who leads the way -- and structured it as a family office.Family offices that exclusively manage one fortune are generally exempt from registering as investment advisers with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. So they dont have to disclose their owners, executives or how much they manage -- rules designed to protect outsiders who invest in a fund. That approach makes sense for small family offices, but if they swell to the size of a hedge fund whale they can still pose risks, this time to outsiders in the broader market.This does raise questions about the regulation of family offices once again, said Tyler Gellasch, a former SEC aide who now runs the Healthy Markets trade group. The question is if its just friends and family why do we care? The answer is that they can have significant market impacts, and the SECs regulatory regime even after Dodd-Frank doesnt clearly reflect that.Valuable CustomerArchegos established trading partnerships with firms including Nomura Holdings Inc., Morgan Stanley, Deutsche Bank AG and Credit Suisse Group AG. For a time after the SEC case, Goldman refused to do business with him on compliance grounds, but relented as rivals profited by meeting his needs.The full picture of his holdings is still emerging, and its not clear what positions derailed, or what hedges he had set up.One reason is that Hwang never filed a 13F report of his holdings, which every investment manager holding more than $100 million in U.S. equities must fill out at the end of each quarter. Thats because he appears to have structured his trades using total return swaps, essentially putting the positions on the banks balance sheets. Swaps also enable investors to add a lot of leverage to a portfolio.Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs, for instance, are listed as the largest holders of GSX Techedu, a Chinese online tutoring company thats been repeatedly targeted by short sellers. Banks may own shares for a variety of reasons that include hedging swap exposures from trades with their customers.Unhappy InvestorsGoldman increased its position 54% in January, according to regulatory filings. Overall, banks reported holding at least 68% of GSXs outstanding shares, according to a Bloomberg analysis of filings. Banks held at least 40% of IQIYI Inc, a Chinese video entertainment company, and 29% of ViacomCBS -- all of which Archegos had bet on big.Im sure there are a number of really unhappy investors who have bought those names over the last couple of weeks, and now regret it, Doug Cifu, chief executive officer of electronic-trading firm Virtu Financial Inc., said Monday in an interview on Bloomberg TV. He predicted regulators will examine whether there should be more transparency and disclosure by a family office.Without the need to market his fund to external investors, Hwangs strategies and performance remained secret from the outside world. Even as his fortune swelled, the 50-something kept a low profile. Despite once working for Robertsons Tiger Management, he wasnt well-known on Wall Street or in New York social circles.Hwang is a trustee of the Fuller Theology Seminary, and co-founder of the Grace and Mercy Foundation, whose mission is to serve the poor and oppressed. The foundation had assets approaching $500 million at the end of 2018, according to its latest filing.Its not all about the money, you know, he said in a rare interview with a Fuller Institute executive in 2018, in which he spoke about his calling as an investor and his Christian faith. Its about the long term, and God certainly has a long-term view.His extraordinary run of fortune turned early last week as ViacomCBS Inc. announced a secondary offering of its shares. Its stock price plunged 9% the next day.The value of other securities believed to be in Archegos portfolio based on the positions that were block traded followed.By Thursdays close, the value of the portfolio fell 27% -- more than enough to wipe out the equity of an investor who market participants estimate was six to eight times levered.Its also hurt some of the banks that served Hwang. Nomura and Credit Suisse warned of significant losses in the wake of the selloff and Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc. has flagged a potential $300 million loss.You have to wonder who else is out there with one of these invisible fortunes, said Novogratz. The psychology of all that leverage with no risk management, its almost nihilism.(Updates with latest bank to detail exposure in penultimate paragraph.)For more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.comSubscribe now to stay ahead with the most trusted business news source.2021 Bloomberg L.P.

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