Fidelity Investments has launched a new active ETF investing in preferred stock and other income-producing securities.

Franklin Templeton has tapped the active management expertise of its affiliates Brandywine Global, ClearBridge Investments and Martin Currie for the upcoming launch of five ETFs in Canada.

KraneShares has introduced a new China-focused fixed income ETF providing exposure to renminbi-denominated securities included in the Bloomberg Barclays Global Aggregate Index.

The Federal Reserve has announced plans to start selling its holdings of corporate bond ETFs as it begins to wind down some of the emergency measures implemented during the height of the Covid-19 market volatility.

Toronto-headquartered Horizons ETFs has launched the Horizons S&P Green Bond Index ETF (HGGB CN), Canada’s first fixed income ETF to target ‘green’ bonds issued globally.

ChinaAMC has finalized the acquisition of BMO’s Hong Kong-listed ETFs following the Canadian asset manager’s decision to pull out of the city’s ETF market.

FinEx has launched a new ETF on Moscow Exchange offering exposure to US Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities (TIPS).

European institutional investors are adopting ETFs as their vehicle of choice for accessing Chinese equities and bonds, according to a survey commissioned by NTree International on behalf of China Post Global.

Vanguard has introduced its first ESG-considered fixed income ETF in Europe with the launch of the Vanguard ESG Global Corporate Bond UCITS ETF.

By William Sokol, Senior ETF Product Manager at VanEck.

Corporate bond investors are faced with a challenge in the current environment: sacrifice income or take more risk.