ACATIS Investment has entered the ETF market with the launch of its first actively managed ETF, listing the ACATIS Altersvorsorgedepot UCITS ETF on Deutsche Börse Xetra, on Friday 8 May. The fund has been designed as a long-term savings product for investors building capital for retirement. It is positioned around Germany’s developing Altersvorsorgedepot (AVD) framework. […]
Royal London Asset Management is preparing to enter Europe’s active ETF market with two equity tilt products, marking the latest move by a large UK asset manager into the fast-growing ETF segment. The Royal London Global Equity Tilt UCITS ETF and Royal London UK Broad Equity Tilt UCITS ETF have been filed for registration with […]
Schroders has expanded its European active ETF range with the launch of the Schroder US Equity Active UCITS ETF, as assets across its UCITS ETF franchise pass $2.8bn. The launch adds a US equity strategy to Schroders’ growing active ETF platform in Europe, following the group’s move into the UCITS active ETF market last year […]
HANetf, in partnership with London Stock Exchange Group, hosted a breakfast event on 22 April titled “How to enter the European UCITS ETF market”. After introductory remarks from Katya Gorbatiouk, head of investment funds at LSE, David McNay kicked off the event with a presentation titled “Themes and Trends: Top of Mind for Capital Allocators”. […]
State Street Investment Management has launched the Saudi Arabia Enhanced Active Equity UCITS ETF, giving European investors a first active ETF route into Saudi equities. The Saudi state’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) has provided a $100m anchor investment. The launch extends the partnership between the two groups after PIF’s $200m seed investment in State Street’s […]
State Street has forecast that actively managed ETFs will overtake passive products in Europe by launch numbers in 2026, marking what it sees as the next stage in the region’s ETF development. In its 2026 ETF outlook, titled “From wrapper to backbone”, the firm reports that active strategies gathered more than $38bn of inflows in […]
Northern Trust Asset Management is reportedly preparing to re-enter Europe’s ETF market, marking a notable return for a group that only recently pulled back from the sector. According to recent reports, the firm is reassessing its European ETF strategy and is weighing whether to convert existing active funds into ETFs as it looks to tap […]
European ETF inflows sharply lost momentum in March, but active ETFs emerged from the month in a stronger relative position. Morningstar data shows European ETFs and ETCs gathered €9.4bn in the month, down from an average of around €46bn in each of the first two months of the year, as investors turned more cautious amid […]
We now have the first few episodes of our new weekly livestream, Active ETF Intelligence (live every Wednesday at 11am), under our belts. It therefore feels like an appropriate moment to take stock of what we have covered so far and reflect on where the conversations might head next. News – new launches dominate, as […]
Pictet Asset Management is preparing to launch five AI-enhanced active UCITS ETFs in Europe, marking the Swiss group’s first move into the region’s ETF market. The funds will be domiciled in Ireland and will cover US, world, emerging markets, Europe and world ex-US equities under the tickers PQUS, PQWD, PQEM, PQEU and PQWX, respectively. Pictet […]
