Leveraging technology for the creation and distribution of both companies’ products while also providing transparency and educational tools for financial advisors, institutions and issuers, is key to the merger.
Fund News Advisors Can Use: Putnam Enters the ETF Market In this week’s fund news, long-time active manager Putnam to launch ETFs, Cubs owner Tom Ricketts merges his bond broker with 280 CapMarkets, and iCapital, CAIA introduce a new alt investing education platform.
Putnam Investments, the 84-year-old Boston-based asset management firm led by President and CEO Bob Reynolds, made its first foray into the exchange traded funds market, launching four semi-transparent active ETFs this week.
The four U.S. equity strategies, including the Putnam Sustainable Leaders ETF, the Putnam Sustainable Future ETF, the Putnam Focused Large Cap Growth ETF and the Putnam Large Cap Value ETF, will be available in the spring. The ETFs are based on existing mutual funds the firm currently manages.
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SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 16, 2020 /PRNewswire/ 280 CapMarkets (280), a fixed-income technology company providing market clarity and best-execution trading solutions to empower financial advisors and institutions, introduced client-facing enhancements to its innovative BondNav
® cloud-based bond investing platform this quarter. 280 announced the rollout of mortgage-backed securities, a new portfolio-sharing feature, on BondNav
® and continued enhancements to its recently launched straight-through processing functionality, which it launched earlier this year.
280 CapMarkets continues to gain followers among financial advisors and independent broker-dealers, having increased its BondNav
® users to over 600. The newest portfolio-sharing feature within the fixed-income platform will allow BondNav
® users the ability to provide colleagues with access to their portfolios and dedicated lists, with the flexibility to grant and assign different per