All ETFs articles – Page 5
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Special ReportETFs rise to the challenge
Exchange-traded funds and products (ETFs and ETPs) have been one of the biggest investment success stories in recent years. Their stunning popularity meant that, despite the shock of COVID-19, they had taken in US$294bn (€247bn) over the six months to end-June 2020, compared with US$210bn over the same period last year.
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Special ReportLow carbon ETFs: exclusion versus tilting
The rise in investor awareness of climate risks and the increased allocation to passive strategies is set to continue. Tilting is becoming an alternative or complementary approach to traditional exclusion approaches to reducing carbon exposure.
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Special ReportAre too many products spoiling the ETF broth?
ETFs have been one of the finance industry’s great successes over the past three decades. With over 8,000 ETFs listed globally, the sector offers highly competitive fees and diversity of product, or so it is assumed.
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Special ReportBright future for ETFs in pension funds’ portfolios
Despite the phenomenal rise in ETF adoption over the past few years, they still account for a relatively small portion of pension funds’ portfolios. As a recent survey by TrackInsight confirms, ETFs have room to grow with these institutional investors as they fit well with the dual nature of their mandate: meeting short-term liabilities while maximising long-term returns.
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Special ReportESG ETFs: northern lights blaze a trail
When the two mainstays of the Finnish earnings-related pension system decided to re-weight their vast passive equity exposure to reflect their environmental, social and governance (ESG) priorities, both found that, despite the plethora of ETFs now available, none met their precise needs.
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Special ReportBond ETFs come of age
In a situation as destructive as a global pandemic is it is difficult to find many winners. Hundreds of thousands of lives have been lost and economies have been brought to the brink – and we may still only be at the start of the saga.
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Special ReportActive ETFs: the transparency conundrum
Since the first exchange-traded funds (ETFs) were launched in the early 1990s, they have had a huge impact on the asset management industry, pushing down costs and challenging the dominance of active managers.
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Special ReportThe case for active ETFs
Each day, more and more institutional investors are discovering how exchange-traded funds (ETFs) can enable them to make trades conveniently, access markets flexibly, diversify portfolios broadly, and manage fees and taxes efficiently.
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Special ReportGetting active on stewardship
Providers of passive products like ETFs are no longer passive when it comes to stewardship. In active investment circles, stewardship has always sat naturally beside active stock selection as a way for portfolio managers to add value. That has not been the case on the passive side, where the focus has traditionally been on technical aspects of tracking indices, such as minimising tracking difference, to deliver for investors in terms of relative performance.
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NewsSurvey: Active, smart beta ETFs to see uptick in next three years
JPMorgan Asset Management says ETF allocations held in passive products will decline to 61% of portfolios
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NewsIlmarinen invests €500m in passive ESG EM equities via Amundi
Finland’s biggest pension insurance firm announces seed investment via ETF it co-developed with Amundi
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NewsSector biases skew low vol smart beta performance in downturn
US low volatility strategies fail to provide downside protection in 2020 crash
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NewsVarma invests €500m in US equities via new co-developed ESG ETF
‘Development of index funds with an increasingly responsible tilt is key,’ says Finnish PF
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Special ReportLiquidity & Implementation: The shifting sands of index provision
As ETFs are created to track ever more specialised market exposures, competitive pressures and new regulations are impacting the complex relationships between asset managers and index providers.
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Special ReportFocus on Fixed Income: The rise and rise of fixed income ETFs
When ETFs first broke up the active management party in the fallout of the financial crisis, it was equity funds that bore the brunt of the impact.
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Special ReportFocus on Fixed Income: ETFs: the natural home for fixed income
In recent years, fixed income ETFs have been grabbing a larger slice of the ETF market as investors look to capitalise on the enhanced diversification, tradeability, price transparency and liquidity they can provide to bond portfolios. According to the latest research by Citi Business Advisory Services, fixed income ETF assets have increased at a robust 25% annual compound growth rate over the last decade, hitting more than $870bn by the end of 2018.
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Special ReportLiquidity & Implementation: Woodford fallout renews focus on ETF risks
The recent suspension of redemptions from Neil Woodford’s Equity Income fund is a cautionary tale and one that has further sharpened the spotlight on the liquidity of mutual funds, a category that includes exchange-traded funds (ETFs).
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Special ReportETFs for ESG: Why passive makes sense for ESG
ESG investing – the incorporation of environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors into investment criteria – has grown rapidly in recent years.
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ETFs for ESG: Sustainable investing is here to stay
Sustainable investing was once viewed as a trade-off between value and ‘values’. Yet today, it’s something investors can no longer afford to ignore.
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Special ReportETFs for ESG: Gender equality ETFs gain a foothold
Can a new category of ETFs help address one of the oldest economic imbalances of all?
