For now, some believe product registrations are a way to test how regulators would react to a products investment strategy or structure.
“There’s a lot of probing out there with the SEC, what are they willing to do, where are they willing to go,” Larry Petrone, director of research at kasina, said in the article.
Industry experts, though, believe this is the year that more managers will be breaking into the active ETF space. [Institutional Investors May Step Up to Active ETFs]
Cerulli Associates found that 57% of ETF sponsors plan to develop active fixed-income ETFs and some 37% of sponsors want to develop active equity ETFs.
“Firms saw what Pimco did in the fixed-income space and are looking to move on it,” Alec Papazian, associate director at Cerulli, said in the article.
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Max Chen contributed to this article.