The global Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) market is projected to more than double over the next five years. BTV- Business Television speaks with ETF industry experts giving investors firsthand insight.
On the market for 52 years now, Mackenzie Investments Canada (MEE) has 2,082 different funds with different objectives.
Delivering ETF’s products to Canadian investors for half a century, the company believes that management of risks is as important as performance.
In fact, risk is one of the major concerns for investors and some sectors can be really intimidating. Whether active or passive, ETF’s are the best way to mitigate risks.
In a Passive ETF, investments are chosen to mimic the performance of the index or sector it’s tracking, while Active ETF’s have been created to outperform passive ETF’s in the same sector.
The world’s largest provider of mutual funds and the second largest provider of ETF’s, Vanguard Group (VBAL) is now offering investors the opportunity to have equity and fixed income in a single ETF.
Structured in an innovative way, the company has a client-oriented policy, where investors get the benefits of a mutual ownership. Since it’s owned by its clients, the company could eliminate conflict of interests between clients and shareholders.
With 1.3 billion in assets under management, Bristol Gate Capital Partners (BGU) stands out in the dividend space because of its dividend growth strategy. Their portfolio has been built by combining A.I. and data science with research and analysis, but never leaving behind the human judgement.
And it seems to be working. As an active manager, the company has shown an exponential growth from 75 million in assets they had five years ago to the current 1.3 billion they have now.
Horizons ETFs (FOUR) has the first marijuana ETF in the world and the first leverage tax-efficient and actively managed ETF in Canada.
Dedicated to thematic investing like canopy marijuana stocks, robotics and automation sectors, the company’s pride is innovation.
Just because these sectors are not mainstream right now, it doesn’t mean they can’t become mainstream. That’s what the company expects to happen maybe in two, five, ten or twenty years.
Harvest Portfolios Group (HBF) focuses on some of the largest companies in the world like Disney, Coca-Cola, and Apple Computers to differentiate itself in the crowded market of ETF’s.
Another bet is on megatrends, trends that are expected to continue on for ten or twenty years. In contrast to most companies that have from 50 to 150 products, Harvest concentrates in only 12 top products. As a result, the company can deliver long term equity growth for investors.
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