
MMIT is actively managed to provide current income, exempt from federal income tax, via investing 80% of its assets in investment-grade municipal bonds. The funds subadvisor considers macroeconomic factors such as tax rates, treasury rates, regulatory, technical factors, and other global economic data. In addition, certain ESG criteria may also be considered for evaluation. Based on this assessment, the manager employs fundamental analysis among various sectors and states to select individual muni bonds with no single state making up 30% of the total investment. The fund aims to maintain a…
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On the latest ETF 360, Kirsten Chang spoke to John Lawlor, managing director, portfolio manager/trader from MacKay Shields about the state of munis. Additionally, they discussed the NYLI MacKay Muni Intermediate ETF (MMIT).

On Friday, IndexIQ launched the actively managed IQ MacKay Securitized Income ETF (NYSE Arca:SECR), which invests in investment-grade mortgage-related and asset-backed securities. The new fund is sub-advised by members of the global fixed income team at New York Life Investment Management subsidiary MacKay Shields.