Articles tagged "State Street Global Advisors"
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Apollo partners with State Street Global Advisors for ultimate moonshot -- making alts liquid with ETFs -- but Apollo may make liquidity function at a premium untenable for investors, never mind the SEC
The Apollo-SSGA pitch to the SEC promises Apollo will buy the alts in a pinch -- but the hitch is that it's the originator, buyer, and seller, introducing uncertainty to 'market' pricing.
October 29, 2024 at 3:50 AM
FDIC bid to strip BlackRock and Vanguard of superpower 'has legs' and reckoning may start with curbs on self-certification of passive index funds
The bank deposit insurer could make the $17-trillion ETF power bloc lose the ability to self-certify as 'passive' funds because their sheer scale could make them an active menace to the banking regulator, at least in this political climate.
April 25, 2024 at 1:29 AM
Blacklisted 'woke' firms like BlackRock and State Street still have a lock on AUM in oil states like Oklahoma; anti-ESG politicians underestimated the fierce independence of state money managers and Republican lawmakers who back them
Oklahoma public pension fund revolts against state Treasurer and refuses to divest ESG funds in protest against mixing politics with fiduciary duties -- roughly a repeat of the ESG revolt in reverse.
November 2, 2023 at 1:50 AM
Vanguard cites shunned founder Jack Bogle to deflect criticism after epic ESG flip-flop, extoling the founder's 'whole haystack' investing strategy versus finding the 'needle'
The Malvern, Pa. firm played the Bogle card amid an about-face on NZAM, which it joined 21 months ago with heavy hitters like BlackRock, to 'steward' client assets, but external GOP political pressures may have forced it to cave.
January 4, 2023 at 2:02 AM
State Street ETF scored mightily in 2021 by getting Blackstone to sub-advise lending 'esoterica;' now State Street is launching new ETF and rewarding Blackstone with a longer leash to chase higher yields
The $881 billion Manhattan alts investor will delve into junk in addition to safer senior loans with new ETF. Nobody will complain about the 70 basis-point fee, if it again delivers higher returns and the inflation protection of floating interest rate loans.
February 24, 2022 at 2:26 AM
State Street's category-killing SPY finally has a little brother after ESG 'inflection point' pushes the bank to bet on filtered S&P 500 ETF
The franchise extension of the Boston giant's $275-billion S&P 500 golden goose comes as Vanguard and BlackRock rake in ESG assets and environmental, social and governance filters get applied to about $13 trillion of assets.
August 27, 2020 at 11:25 PM
TD Ameritrade calms the RIA Twitter storm but not questions about the spreads on the ETFs replacing the super-liquid Vanguard and Core iShares
The additional 60-day extension lets advisors breathe but even Wall Street analysts wonder just how far TD Ameritrade should go in inflaming 'consternation' of 'golden goose' RIAs
