Sit Investment Associates has partnered with white-label platform ETF Managers Group to launch an actively managed ETF that targets high-quality, short-term domestic and foreign debt securities. The ETFMG Sit Ultra Short ETF (VALT US) has listed on NYSE Arca and comes with an expense ratio of 0.30%. The fund seeks to maximize current income while preserving capital and maintaining liquidity.

Goldman Sachs Asset Management (GSAM) has made its exchange-traded fund debut in Europe with the launch of the Goldman Sachs ActiveBeta U.S. Large Cap Equity UCITS ETF (GSLC LN) on London Stock Exchange. The fund is linked to the Goldman Sachs ActiveBeta US Large Cap Equity Index, a proprietary index designed to provide higher returns at similar or lower levels of risk relative to traditional market-cap weighted indices. It sets out to achieve this by systematically exploiting four well-established equity factors – value, momentum, quality and low volatility. The fund is a carbon copy of an NYSE-listed ETF launched by GSAM in the US that has attracted over $6.5bn in assets.

The Goldman Sachs ActiveBeta US Large Cap Equity ETF (GSLC US) is proving popular with investors, having gathered over $1.4 billion in net inflows since the start of July. Assets under management in the fund, which targets returns attributable to the value, quality, momentum, and low volatility factors from a universe of stocks comparable to the S&P 500, now stand at more than $6.4bn and are up 75% year to date.

Goldman Sachs Asset Management (GSAM) has filed regulatory documents with the US Securities and Exchange Commission for the launch of six new fixed income ETFs. The funds, which are linked to indices created in collaboration with FTSE Russell, represent a significant expansion of GSAM’s fixed income ETF capabilities, increasing the number of bond ETFs offered by the firm to eleven.

IndexIQ, a subsidiary of New York Life Investment Management, has launched an actively managed fixed income ETF that provides exposure to an ultra-short duration portfolio of bonds from multiple sectors. The IQ Ultra Short Duration ETF (ULTR US) has listed on NYSE Arca and comes with an expense ratio of 0.24%. The fund seeks to provide current income while limiting price volatility.

Iowa-headquartered Principal Financial has launched the Principal Ultra-Short Active Income ETF (USI US) on NYSE Arca, providing actively managed exposure to high-quality bonds with low duration.

Goldman Sachs has launched the Goldman Sachs Access Ultra Short Bond ETF (GSST US) on Cboe BZX. The actively managed fund provides exposure to high quality fixed income securities while maintaining portfolio duration of less than one year.

Goldman Sachs Asset Management (GSAM) has introduced a suite of five thematic equity ETFs investing in listed companies that are at the vanguard of innovation – either by way of product development or adoption. The funds are linked to indices from Motif Capital Management and cover themes that GSAM believes are pivotal to transformational changes to the global economy: data-driven world, finance reimagined, human evolution, manufacturing revolution, and new age consumer.

Newcomer LeaderShares has launched the LeaderShares AlphaFactor US Core Equity ETF (LSAF US) on NYSE Arca, providing exposure to US large-cap equities that have been selected according to a multifactor process.

Invesco has cross-listed the Invesco Goldman Sachs Equity Factor Index Emerging Markets UCITS ETF on Deutsche Börse and Borsa Italiana. The fund, which debuted on London Stock Exchange in mid-September, is the third product in the firm’s range of multi-factor ETFs linked to smart beta indices developed by investment banking titan Goldman Sachs.