Saba Capital has stopped publishing the daily portfolio of its UK investment trust ETF, arguing that the transparency allowed other investors to copy its trades and made it more expensive to build positions. The Saba Capital Investment Trusts UCITS ETF (UKIT) has moved to a semi-transparent structure and will now disclose its full holdings quarterly, […]

Infrastructure Capital Advisors has launched an actively managed ETF combining US equities with an options strategy designed to generate monthly income while also seeking capital growth. The Infrastructure Capital S&P 500 Option Income UCITS ETF, launched with HANetf, begins trading on the London Stock Exchange today, 18 September. The Ireland-domiciled fund has a total expense […]

European active ETFs attracted $33.9bn of net inflows in the eight months to 31 August 2026, surpassing the previous full-year record of $33.4bn set in 2025. Fidelity International’s September ETF flows review, based on etfbook data, shows inflows were almost 80% higher than the $19.1bn recorded over the same period last year. The milestone comes […]

European fund managers expanding into active ETFs face a question over how much business will come from new investors and how much will migrate from their existing funds. MSCI’s ETF Intelligence Survey 2026, published on 14 September, found that 58% of respondents said an active ETF allocation from a manager they already use would most […]

Schroders has listed two actively managed equity ETFs in London, offering investors exposure to European and Japanese companies with annual charges of 0.25%. The Schroder Europe Equity Active UCITS ETF and Schroder Japan Equity Active UCITS ETF began trading on the London Stock Exchange on 9 September, following their initial listings on Xetra on 2 […]

JPMorgan Asset Management is asking investors to approve an overhaul of its emerging-market sovereign bond ETF, giving managers discretion over bond selection and access to a broader range of investments. A shareholder vote on the JPM USD Emerging Markets Sovereign Bond UCITS ETF is scheduled for 1 October. If approved, the changes would take effect […]

ARK funds dominated the active ETF monthly performance leaderboard for August, with ARK Genomic Revolution UCITS ETF returning 27.0% over the month, taking its rolling one year return to 98.0%. This monthly gain exceeded the 22.4% return from ARK Innovation UCITS ETF and the 9.8% rise in ARK Artificial Intelligence & Robotics UCITS ETF. Managed […]

Columbia Threadneedle has launched an actively managed emerging markets ETF in Europe. The CT QR Series Emerging Markets Equity Active UCITS ETF (QREM) was admitted to trading on the London Stock Exchange today (4 September) and is also listed on Deutsche Börse Xetra and SIX Swiss Exchange. It has a total expense ratio of 0.30%. […]

Seraphim Space, the manager of Seraphim Space (SSIT) investment trust, will launch an exchange-traded fund tomorrow offering investors access to both public and private space technology companies.  The index-tracking Seraphim New Space ETF will, according to The Times, have exposure to the “new cohort of recently listed New Space companies [which] are disrupting incumbent and […]

Invesco has expanded its active ETF range with a global equity strategy that uses value, quality and momentum signals to try to outperform the broader market. The Invesco All Country World Enhanced Equity UCITS ETF has launched on the London Stock Exchange, giving investors access to an actively managed portfolio of large and mid-cap companies […]

Fidelity International is planning further hires to its ETF business as the asset manager looks to capitalise on the rapid growth of actively managed ETFs in Europe. The group has made expanding its ETF team a priority and is looking to add staff across product strategy, capital markets and distribution, according to Financial News. Recent […]

German asset manager LAIQON has entered the European ETF market with an actively managed equity strategy that uses artificial intelligence to help select and weight stocks. The LAIQON European Equity AI Optimized Active UCITS ETF began trading on Xetra on 12 August under the ticker LQEU, having been developed in partnership with Amundi. The accumulating […]

Jupiter Asset Management plans to launch two active ETFs investing in emerging markets and global equities outside the US for its Origin investment arm. The UK fund manager has filed the Jupiter Origin Global Emerging Markets Active Equity and Jupiter Origin Global Ex-US Active Equity UCITS ETFs with the Central Bank of Ireland.  The emerging […]

Goldman Sachs looks primed to launch covered call exchange-traded funds (ETFs) in Europe following its $2.25bn (£1.7bn) acquisition of NEOS Investments.  NEOS, a US focused provider of options-based income ETFS, last week agreed to add its $30bn, 19 fund range to Golman Sachs’ platform, giving the investment bank a total of $130bn in active ETFs, […]

We regularly report launches of new active ETFs, many of which can have numerous share classes, but Amundi Asset Management has decided to de-list 26 of its ETF share classes in an attempt to improve liquidity in the remaining ones. The last day of trading in these will be 6 November 2026 and de-listng will […]

Europe’s fragmented ETF market is set to gain its first consolidated source of trading data after the European Securities and Markets Authority authorised EuroCTP to operate the EU’s consolidated tape for shares and exchange-traded funds. The tape will combine real-time trading information from exchanges, multilateral trading facilities and approved publication arrangements into a single data […]

PIMCO has launched a European ETF that combines exposure to US large-cap equities with an actively managed bond portfolio. The PIMCO Advantage StocksPLUS US Large Cap UCITS ETF aims to outperform the S&P 500 by adding returns generated through PIMCO’s fixed-income investment process. Rather than attempting to beat the index through stock selection, the strategy […]

European active ETFs attracted $26.63bn of net inflows during the first half of 2026, almost double the $13.36bn collected over the same period last year. Investors added $6.36bn to active ETFs in June alone, according to ETFGI, taking their share of total European ETF inflows for the first half to around 10%. The wider European […]

The London Stock Exchange is preparing to launch a separate overnight venue, with exchange-traded products set to become the first securities available for near-continuous trading. The London Stock Exchange (LSE) has announced plans to introduce trading in exchange-traded products (ETPs) for almost 24 hours a day, five days a week. The new venue, London Stock […]

BlackRock has moved around €13bn of European-listed ETFs from optimised sampling to full physical replication, as the growing weight of major semiconductor and technology companies tests regulatory concentration limits. Optimised sampling allows an ETF to track an index without holding every constituent. This can reduce trading costs and operational complexity, particularly when an index contains […]

European thematic ETFs are attracting money again after two difficult years, with semiconductor funds overtaking defence strategies as investors increasingly target the infrastructure required to support artificial intelligence. Thematic ETFs attracted $13.31bn of net inflows in Europe during the first half of 2026, according to ETFbook data included in HANetf’s latest review of the European […]

BlackRock plans to launch Europe’s first active defence ETF to take advantage of arms manufacturers’ booming order books driven by a surge in government spending. The world’s largest asset manager, with $15.4trn under management, has filed an intention to launch the Dublin-based exchange-traded fund with the Central Bank of Ireland. The iShares Global Defence & […]

First Trust is preparing to bring one of its largest actively managed US ETFs to Europe, with plans to launch a UCITS version of its $2.4bn First Trust Long/Short Equity ETF. First Trust launched the US-listed First Trust Long/Short Equity ETF, known by its ticker FTLS, in 2014. Its growth to around $2.4bn in assets […]

Defiance ETFs has launched Europe’s first photonics ETF, offering investors targeted exposure to the optical technologies used to move rapidly growing volumes of data around AI systems and data centres. The Defiance Photonics UCITS ETF (PHOT) invests in companies developing, manufacturing and commercialising technologies that generate, transmit and process information using light rather than electricity. […]

Amundi is set to convert one of its disruptive technology ETFs into a memory chips strategy, as asset managers continue to build products around the infrastructure behind artificial intelligence. The Amundi MSCI Disruptive Technology UCITS ETF will be renamed the Amundi Global Memory Chips UCITS ETF from 17 July 2026. The fund will also switch […]

Fidelity International plans to expand its active ETF range in Europe with the launch of eight options-based funds. The first four exchange-traded funds filed with the Central Bank of Ireland are “buffer” strategies, offering protection against market falls in global, US and Europe equities. They are: The second group filed with the Irish regulator are […]

Switzerland’s Pictet Asset Management has launched four active ETFs whose stock selection will be entirely driven by artificial intelligence (AI). The “enhanced equity” funds will use a proprietary AI model to interpret a vast amount of data points rather than plugging artificial intelligence into an existing quantitative analysis system. The suite of AI enhanced UCITS […]

Defiance, a US ETF issuer that specialises in thematic, income and leveraged products, has launched the Defiance Memory UCITS ETF (DRAM) in Europe, giving investors targeted exposure to companies involved in memory semiconductors and data storage systems. The fund, launched through HANetf’s white label platform, aims to capture part of the AI infrastructure supply chain […]

Artificial intelligence-related ETFs rebounded on Monday (29 June) after a sharp sell-off at the end of last week, highlighting both the continued strength of investor interest in the theme and the volatility that can come with more concentrated exposures. According to MarketWatch, the iShares A.I. Innovation and Tech Active ETF rose 2.9%, recovering part of […]

Dragon Capital, the Vietnam boutique with around $5bn assets under management, has filed plans for the launch of its first European ETF. Best known for running Vietnam Enterprise Investments Limited (VEIL), a £1bn London-listed closed-end fund, Dragon is seeking regulatory approval for the launch of the Dragon Capital Vietnam UCITS ETF in Dublin. According to […]