Scott Burns, director of exchange traded securities analysis at Morningstar, discusses active management combined with ETFs and investing in REITs
Active management and ETFs The topic of active management in ETFs is heating up again, following Grail Advisors launching four actively managed funds. The Grail ETFs will be run by single fund managers in the traditional active sense, as opposed to the fund of fund structure in the Grail American Beacon Large Value ETF. By all appearances, Grail is bringing a stable of established and well-known managers to manage these ETFs. On top of that, AdvisorShares launched the Dent Tactical fund, which is the first traditionally active ETF of ETFs. The fund is run by financial celebrity H...
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