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Bank of New York Mellon Corp boosted its position in shares of Franklin U.S. Core Bond ETF (NYSEARCA:FLCB) by 44.5% during the first quarter, according to its most recent Form 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The firm owned 3,168,185 shares of the company's stock after purchasing an additional
Investment manager Franklin Templeton has marked eight years as an ETF issuer in the U.S. market. Primarily known as an active manager of mutual funds, the firm also offers active, quasi-active and passively managed strategies within the ETF wrapper.
On this week's episode of ETF Prime, host Nate Geraci and VettaFi‘s Zeno Mercer discuss the “Magnificent Seven” and how these companies are affected by artificial intelligence. Afterward, Geraci is joined by David Mann, head of ETF Product & Capital Markets at Franklin Templeton, to discuss investor uncertainty in the bond market.
This week, the VettaFi Voices addressed the topic of whether investors should use active or passive management for their ESG investing.
Perhaps the key virtue of active management is its ability to respond to uncertainty — a real asset as concern surrounding banking contagion from Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) roils markets.
Franklin Templeton has been building out its ETF lineup through product development, mutual fund conversions, and acquisitions. While it had $10 billion in U.S.-listed ETF assets at the end of November, aided by $1 billion of net inflows, the firm has ambitions of being a much larger player in the space.
Active ETFs are punching above their weight. While assets in active ETFs currently amount to just 4% of all ETF assets, 11% of net inflows into ETFs in the first quarter have gone into active funds, Todd Rosenbluth, head of research at ETF Trends and ETF Database, said today at Exchange: An ETF Experience.
Investors continued to plow money into taxable (+$32.0 billion) and tax-exempt (+$4.8 billion) bond funds (including ETFs) for the month of September. For the month, the average taxable and tax-exempt fixed income mutual fund posted a 0.48% and 0.75% decline, respectively, for September and are up 0.50% and 1.27% so far this year.