Pendulum Shifts to Active ETF’s By Tom Lydon Tisha Guerrero contributed to this article.
May 6th Actively managed exchange traded funds are finally getting some attention, as successful new products have recently launched. The fixed income category of active management has been able to acquire assets, setting momentum for this area of the market. “Although we estimate that actively managed ETFs represent roughly 5% of all the assets in U.S.-traded ETFs, we see interest on the rise, as evidenced by the number of such …
Mutual Funds fight for flows against ETF’s By Chris Taylor
Mon, Apr 9 2012 NEW YORK, April 9 Reuters – A funny thing happened on the way to the death of the traditional mutual fund, foretold by some analysts. It hasn’t happened. Instead, in the last two months, flows into equity exchange-traded funds (ETFs) have slowed, while flows into equity mutual funds have picked up. Just last December, the spread between the two was a whopping $46 billion in favor …