Columbia Threadneedle Investments’ financial adviser survey finds most intend to increase allocations to ETFs

Joe Anthony, President of Gregory FCA, interviews ETF Express Managing Editor, Beverly Chandler, on the October three day digital summit focused on US institutional use of ETFs…

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The Value factor might make all the difference in that hunt for yield says Mark Carlson, Senior Investment Strategist at FlexShares ETFs.

US fund administrator Nottingham has received clearance from the SEC to launch active ETFs within the Blue Tractor Shielded Alpha semi-transparent ETF structure.

PwC Ireland’s report published in August, entitled ‘ETFs: Unlocking further potential’, made quite the splash with its call to arms on four key areas that could improve European ETF trading and harness growth opportunities, with further development of Europe’s ETF trading infrastructure. 

Wealth managers using ETFs in the US are stepping up to create their own in-house range of the products. Andrew Mies, CIO of 6 Meridian, explains how his USD2.8 billion wealth advisory firm based in Wichita, KS, has done just that.

Earlier this month saw asset management giant T Rowe Price, with USD1.22 trillion under management, enter the ETF arena, in the US, with four semi-transparent ETF products that largely mirror their existing mutual fund offerings.

Relatively new kid on the ETF block, Defiance ETFs, has continued on its mission to pick off key themes with the launch this week of the Defiance Nasdaq Junior Biotechnology ETF (IBBJ).

One strategy in the ETF world that has seen good inflows over these interesting months is the active ETF strategy, with ETF data providers ETFGI reporting that actively managed ETFs and ETPs saw net inflows of USD7.04 billion during June, bringing year-to-date net inflows into the strategy to USD26.69 billion.

Austin, Texas-based Dimensional Fund Advisors, a systematic active money manager with close to four decades of experience and USD514 billion under management, is stepping into the ETF pool, with the planned launch of three ETFs later this year.

Global X, with a range of ETFs that it describes as ‘beyond ordinary’, enjoyed USD1.3 billion in positive net inflows last month, as its ETFs based on cloud computing, gaming and cyber security flowered during the Covid-19 lockdown.