Actively managed exchange-traded funds have failed to capture investors’ imagination in the US despite the overall ETF industry growing apace with assets under management crossing $2 trillion in 2015. Actively managed fixed income funds, however, have fared better by cornering two-thirds of the $24 billion overall active niche. New York-based Guggenheim Partners – the eighth largest US ETF issuer, recently …
Taking Stock: PIMCO Does It Again! Now It’s A Global TIPS ETF
The California-based Pacific Investment Management Company, the world’s biggest manager of bond mutual funds, has done it again. Barely two months after the launch of its first exchange traded fund (the Total Return ETF BOND) the fixed-income fund goliath has just launched its second offering. This time PIMCO will help investors protect their investments against inflation through its Global Advantage …
Taking Stock: The PIMCO Total Return ETF
Mutual funds behemoth PIMCO created quite a flutter at the beginning of March when it announced launching the ETF version of its Total Return Fund, now trading under the ticker symbol BOND. The fund had generated a lot of interest from the investor community, securing $340 million in assets in the first month of its launch. Despite its relatively higher …