Finally, where does this leave all of those filings for actively managed ETF products?
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Bateman believes that moving this strategy to an actively managed ETF should be successful.
The second actively managed ETF that Bateman discussed will employ an ecological or green focus.
The third planned actively managed ETF will be an all equity portfolio strategy that employs option hedging techniques.
The AdvisorShares Cambria Global Tactical Asset Allocation ETF (GTAA) is one interesting combination of the asset allocation strategy with another recent phenomenon, the actively managed ETF.
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Next came the news that Grail Advisors is introducing an actively managed bond ETF run by DoubleLine Capital.
But the most elusive nut that ETF insiders are trying to crack is how to best fit actively managed stock funds inside an ETF.
PIMCO's move is striking not just because of the fund's size and fame but also because the ETF is actively managed.
While this ETF is not actively managed like the CGM Focus Fund, it does track many of the same names with an expense ratio of just 0.2%.
William McNabb, Vanguard's chief executive, said he isn't sure whether Vanguard will carry the ETF shares concept over to its big actively managed funds.
Actively managed ETFs are a small but growing segment of the overall ETF market.
Actively managed exchange-traded funds are the latest phase of the growing ETF marketplace.
You may also want to look at our Model ETF Portfolio for ideas, since it is an actively managed portfolio (as opposed to a list of ETFs) and uses different funds than those listed above.
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The expense ratio of the IWD, for example, is 0.2%, compared to fees for actively managed funds that routinely have expense ratios four or five times those of an ETF.
While the average actively managed fund has expenses of about 1.5% per year, the average ETF has expenses of only about .4% per year.
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