Former iShares Chief Executive Officer Lee Kranefuss believes that true active ETFs which mimic hedge funds, with long-short hedge funds who are interested in implementing an ETF strategy, will eventually become a common theme, writes Olivier Ludwig for IndexUniverse.
Kranefuss also adds that alpha can still be obtained in an active ETF strategy, even in a transparent industry since winning managers will be so prescient that possible copy cats would be unable to rationalize the strategy.
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Max Chen contributed to this article.