Tag: exchange traded funds (ETFs)

Goldman Sachs Launches New ActiveBeta ETF; WisdomTree Sprouts New Smart Beta ETF; Manning & Napier Rolls out Disciplined Value CIT; and more.

Fidelity Launches RMD-Focused Funds; Nuveen Launches New Equity ESG ETFs; AI Insight Partners with ActiveAllocator Holdings; and more.

Pavilion Advisory expands consultant team; American Century Investments names head of ETFs; Deutsche AM expands equities portfolio management team; Lockton hires senior VP; Glenn Reed retires from Vanguard.

Exchange-traded funds remain a marginal part of the DC retirement plan market, but recent product evolution on the fixed-income side could change that.

Morgan Stanley Changes Fund Offerings; Wilshire Launches ABR Equity Index; Data Science Partners Develops Downside-Risk Protection Model; and more.

Franklin Templeton Launches Strategic Beta ETFs and Vanguard Reduces Expense Ratios on Stock and Bond Funds.

Morningstar Developing Enhanced Risk Identifying Solution; and Toroso Launches New ETF Index

 

International Equity funds took the lead among Equity funds in March.

The platform will offer private label funds run with a combination of active and passive management.

American Century Releases New Alternative Investments Fund; First Trust Advisors Launches Active ETFs; and Thornburg Investment Management Adds R6 Share Classes.

Nationwide Adds 3(21) Fiduciary Service from IRON Financial; intellicents to Use Schwab Automated Investment Management Program; Delaware Investments Rebrands; and more.

The new funds will focus on investment grade debt including U.S. government and corporate bonds.

Investors had previously shown more interest in government funds due to money market fund regulation.

The package provides access to human advisers as well as an automated managed account built with ETFs from Schwab and other providers.

Equity exchange-traded funds (ETFs) garnered the most cash.

ETFs have taken on a central role in critical investment functions like risk and liquidity management. 

Passive strategies continued to lead demand.

Lincoln Financial Group Releases New Annuities; Nuveen Launches Investment Trust Portfolio; Wilshire Associates Releases ESG-Weighted Index; and more.

Charles Schwab Lowers Trade Commissions and Index Fund Fees; Symons Capital Releases Small Cap Equity Mutual Fund; Pantheon Targets DC Plans for Private Equity Strategies; and more.