In March 2010, ActiveETFs | InFocus spoke with – Ken McCord, President of Horizons AlphaPro. AlphaPro is the sister company of Horizons BetaPro and is the only company in Canada to provide actively-managed ETFs to investors. Ken talks to us about AlphaPro’s plans, how AlphaPro will handle competition and where the opportunities and challenges lie […]
In February 2010, ActiveETFs | InFocus spoke with – Noah Hamman, CEO of AdvisorShares Investments LLC. AdvisorShares is the company behind the Dent Tactical ETF – the largest equity active ETF in the US to date. Noah shares with us his thoughts on the Active ETFs space, his plans for AdvisorShares and also the opportunities […]
In April 2010, ActiveETFs | InFocus spoke with – Tom Lydon, President of Global Trends Investments and Editor of ETFTrends.com. Tom is probably the most public face in the ETF field and is frequently interviewed on CNBC and also cited in other forms of media. He is also the author of The ETF Trend Following […]
With actively-managed ETFs still a relatively new product, providers are trying hard to garner investor interest through many different means. One of those is by lowering the expense ratio of the Active ETFs temporarily through fee waivers. Fee waivers are common in newly launched actively-managed ETFs where the ETF manager provides a reimbursement of […]
ActiveETFs | InFocus had a conversation with Casey Smith, who is the Principal and President of Wiser Wealth Management, a registered investment advisor based out of Marietta, Georgia. Wiser Wealth Management is a fee-only wealth management firm offering portfolio management, tax preparation, and estate planning. Wiser Wealth has been utilizing ETFs in client portfolios since […]
Originally published in March 2011 With 36 actively-managed ETFs trading in the US as of March 2011, and another 12 available to investors in Canada, investors now have access to active management within an ETF wrapper. Exchange-traded funds can no longer be assumed to be solely providing passive, index-based exposure to the market. Investors who […]
Few investors even consider investing in real estate these days, given how much the real estate market has suffered in the past 2-3 years. However, as David Fessler points out, it might be the right time to start considering a contrarian approach to this space. The financial sector in March 2009 was a once-in-a-generation […]
In October 2010, ActiveETFs | InFocus spoke with Gary Gastineau, who is the principal of ETF Consultants which provides specialized ETF consulting services. Gary is a recognized expert on ETFs and also author of a book titled The Exchange-Traded Funds Manual. He has also authored other books and written papers on various topics concerning ETFs. […]
On June 17th, 2010, two more players in the asset management space, BlackRock iShares and Huntington Asset Advisors, filed to launch new actively-managed ETFs. June is turning out to be another month where there has been a deluge of players filing for plans to enter the Active ETF space. The first two weeks of June […]