Tag: ETFs

Aria’s RetireOne Platform Offering Variable Annuity; Vanguard Launches Global Balanced Funds; Pensionmark Rolls Out New Investment Reporting Tools; and more.

Nearly two-thirds of ETF issuers claim to position strategic beta as a replacement for passive ETFs, but nearly two-thirds of advisers who are using strategic beta report replacing...

Wilshire Launches VETS Index; Betterment Sprouts SRI Option for Participants; LPL Opens Mutual-Fund Only Platform; and more.

Charles Schwab Adds More Commission-Free ETFs; John Hancock Continues Reducing Mutual Fund Fees; Rise Financial Opens its Doors for Socially Responsible Investing; and more. 

Mutual funds continue to be the investment vehicle of choice among the 42 DCIO providers surveyed, while exchange traded funds are almost entirely avoided.

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.