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Holly Framsted: This is a company that doesn't launch a new investment solution until it's confident that it will be durable and differentiated.

Capital Group nabs Holly Framsted as it unveils products for 2022 that define how it will stay active in a passive-ETF world

The Los Angeles manager poached BlackRock's head of U.S. ETF product segments (factors) to start in March and oversee the firm's first actively managed exchange-traded funds

January 13, 2021 at 10:14 PM

Natalie Zahradnik: RIAs in particular can be early adopters of new products.

PIMCO's institutionalize-Bill-Gross effort culminates after three years in price hikes tempered by ETF migraines and fee cuts

The Newport Beach, Calif.-based manager notably jacks up charge for PIMCO Income Fund after it soars to $92 billion, which slowed its asset flows not at all as it zoomed past $100 billion

December 4, 2017 at 8:31 PM

Ben Johnson: This latest filing is the last rabbit that you'd imagine they'd try to pull from the hat.

After Vanguard gains $550-billion ETF lead, Fidelity makes 'rabbit out of the hat' play to regain ground

But even as Boston execs attempt magic, Vanguard makes almost simultaneous ETF move that requires no lagomorphs

August 22, 2016 at 10:54 PM

Morningstar did not hazard relying on youth for its Future of Financial Advice panel. [l-r.] Brian Leitner, Vincent Vincent Tiseo and Jim Crowley

The 'other' Morningstar conference shaped up as a true ETF summit with principals of exchange traded fund programs on the prowl

The growing ETF universe is getting specialized as it braces for its post-disruption future as the establishment product

October 5, 2015 at 12:45 AM

Mike Crinieri: Our clients asked us to apply our investment expertise to exchange traded funds.

The wild ride that Goldman Sachs took to launch its first ETF -- one that even an RIA could love?

Three years of leaking assets in $1 trillion Goldman Sachs Asset Management pushed Lloyd Blankfein to treat the unit like a deal leading to acquisitions, hires and an exchange traded fund strategy

September 23, 2015 at 7:42 PM

William McNabb: What's an appropriate margin? Is it 40% in our business or is it 35% or 25%? I don't know the answer to that. I don't have to worry about it.

Vanguard Group, set to gather $300 billion in 2015, is crushing it on every level but could it succumb to its own success?

The Financial Times points out that too-big-to-fail is coming into play along with growing channel conflict and investors (a big maybe) sated with passivity

June 10, 2015 at 6:28 PM

Justin Carbonneau: Even though we're active, we always make changes on a Friday and it's a 28-day-cycle and we're changing 10% of the portfolio each month.

Fleet-footed RIAs storm into the active ETF market as fund giants tie pretzel dough

Front-running is real concern for the likes of American Funds or Fidelity Investments but not for little guys with no track records

May 11, 2015 at 7:32 PM

Ben Johnson: The bigger risk is to not participate.

An outflow-plagued American Funds holds its ETF fire until it can resolve the vehicle's front-running exposure, which defies a resolution

Edward Jones and other legacy American customers consider ETFs a niche solution to a main portfolio -- lessening the urgency for change

February 10, 2015 at 9:57 PM

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