As fixed-income comes to grips with a rising interest rate outlook, more investors are turning to short-term bond exchange traded funds to ride out the storm and generate some extra cash along the way.
Smart beta or factor-based index exchange traded funds have been losing momentum as traditional low-cast, plain vanilla index strategies regain the spotlight.
As the popularity of exchange traded funds continue to rise, passively managed index fund strategies have now overtaken actively managed funds' dominance of the U.S. equity market for the first time.