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SS&C ALPS Advisors Announces Active REIT ETF (REIT)
February 26, 2021 GMT
WINDSOR, Conn., and DENVER, Feb. 26, 2021 /PRNewswire/ SS&C Technologies Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq: SSNC) today announced that SS&C ALPS Advisors has partnered with GSI Capital Advisors and Blue Tractor Group to launch the ALPS Active REIT ETF (Nasdaq: REIT). The ETF provides access to an active and flexible real estate investment trust (REIT) investment strategy in a low-cost, tax-efficient ETF structure.
REIT investments provide income, portfolio diversification, and potential for long-term total return. The ALPS Active REIT ETF (Nasdaq: REIT) offers investors a research-driven, high conviction, flexible investment process and the ability to invest across the spectrum of both core and non-core REITs.
By Craig Lazzara, Managing Director and Global Head of Index Investment Strategy, S&P Dow Jones Indices
For at least five years, we’ve noticed that, despite historical performance, active managers regularly proclaim that this year will at last be the time when active management shows its value. I suspect that most advocates of indexing derive at least some guilty pleasure from observing this ritual. (I know I do.) So, we want to ask, if you know that active management will outperform this year, did you also know that passive would outperform last year? If you knew, why didn’t you say so? And if you didn’t know then, why should we believe that you know now?
Teenagers can be a handful, but your U.S. mid-cap equity allocation doesn’t have to be.
On February 23, WisdomTree celebrated the 14th birthday of its U.S. core equity ETF family, and the WisdomTree U.S. MidCap Fund (EZM) got to blow out the candle.
Launched in 2007, EZM pioneered our rules-based, earnings-weighted methodology, an alternative to market capitalization-weighted strategies that track mid-cap Indexes like the S&P 400 or Russell Midcap Index.
While WisdomTree has always believed in the size premium for mid- and small-cap companies, we find that what you own is more important than owning them outright. That means it’s important to be selective in your pursuit of healthy, opportunistic mid-cap companies, and we think that EZM’s rules-based approach is designed to deliver exactly that.