ETF Future Growth Measured in Trillions
According to a recent article at Market Watch, there are currently over 1,500 exchange-traded fund (ETF) products of which 97% are of the passive and unmanaged type. ETFs are becoming increasingly popular among mutual funds holders due to their ease of liquidity, high transparency, better tax efficiency, and lower cost.
McKinsey & Company: Money-market Fund ETFs Might Soon be a Reality
According to management consultant McKinsey & Company in a report issued on August 16, 2011, a new type of money market fund ETF might soon be a reality. In the past 10 years, according to the report, ETF assets have grown at over 30% per year per year. No other segment of the U.S. asset [...]
PIMCO Plans Foreign Currency Strategy ETF
PIMCO has plans for another actively managed ETF. The new ETF will be the PIMCO Foreign Currency Strategy ETF, to add to its current roster of 13 other ETFs. PIMCO announced earlier this year an ETF version of their massive Total Return Fund is also in the works. For original article, click here.
PIMCO Launching Total Return ETF
In a move seen as highly significant to the industry, PIMCO has announced that it will launch an actively-managed ETF version of their massive PIMCO Total Return Fund. Thus far, actively-managed ETFs represent only a small percentage of the total ETF market, with less than 5% of 1 trillon dollar ETF market in actively-managed exchange-traded [...]
Ameriprise to Enter Actively-Managed ETF Market
Grail Advisors LLC is reportedly close to being acquired by Ameriprise Financial’s mutual fund subsidiary, Columbia Management. Grail Advisors builds and distributes Actively-Managed Exchange-Traded Funds, and the current line up includes three equity ETFs and three fixed-income ETFs: Grail American Beacon Large Cap Value ETF (GVT) RP Growth ETF (RPX) RP Focused Large Cap [...]
State Street to Enter Active ETF Market
State Street Global Advisors has filed with the SEC for six new actively managed ETFs. While the promise of actively managed ETFs has been anticipated for years now in the exchange-traded funds market, few issuers have begun offering them as of yet. It appears however that is about to change. Three of the new State Street [...]
Active ETFs – Extra Options For Investors
ETFs have quickly become popular because they offered a less expensive investment option similar to Mutual Funds. Actively managed ETFs are very similar to mutual funds but are more expensive as compared to passive ETFs. The Active Bear Exchange Traded Fund HDGE represents the latest innovation in ETFs and has been successful in garnering assets [...]
SEC Spoils Market’s Active ETF Excitement
ETFs have been trying to move out of the market benchmark mold and to provide actively managed funds to investors. However, initiatives by T. Rowe Price Group Inc., Eaton Vance Corp. and Legg Mason Inc. in 2009 remain idle pending SEC clearance. SEC’s biggest concern is to find the right way to regulate the twin [...]
Active ETF Launch Planned by Neuberger Berman
Add another name to the growing list of exchange traded fund (ETF) hopefuls: Neuberger Berman is planning to launch actively managed funds. Neuberger Berman is an employee-controlled money management firm based in New York. The company is only the latest one to express an interest in offering actively managed ETFs by filing with the Securities [...]
New ETF Offers Access to Local Emerging Market Debt
WisdomTree has just launched a new actively managed ETF that provides access to local emerging market debt. The exposure to the emerging market debt will be in that market’s local currency. The fund, known as WisdomTree Emerging Markets Local Debt Fund (ELD), has begun trading on the NYSE Arca and has $125 million in assets, [...]
