What You Must Know
- The mutual funds that started buying and selling on March 25 are the Eaton Vance Complete Return Bond ETF (ticker EVTR) and the Eaton Vance Brief Period Municipal Earnings ETF (EVSM).
- Constancy, DFA, JPMorgan and others have switched billions of {dollars} between the 2 fund varieties over the previous three years.
Morgan Stanley’s exchange-traded lineup now holds greater than $1 billion due to the agency’s first-ever mutual-fund conversions.
The issuer is flipping two fixed-income mutual funds — one which follows a complete return bond technique and one targeted on short-duration municipal debt — into ETFs, the corporate mentioned in a press release on March 25. That brings Morgan Stanley’s complete ETF lineup to 14 funds.
The conversions come as Morgan Stanley seeks to develop its footprint within the more and more aggressive $9 trillion ETF market. Whereas Morgan Stanley was an early supporter of the business three many years in the past, the agency didn’t launch its personal merchandise till final 12 months.
It has since created ETFs beneath a handful of Morgan Stanley’s manufacturers, together with Calvert, Parametric, and Eaton Vance. Monday’s new converts present Morgan Stanley’s deepening dedication to lively, fixed-income ETFs, in accordance with the agency’s world head of ETFs.
“We’re very targeted on a few of these business developments, and the 2 main ones are totally clear ETFs and the acceleration of fixed-income,” Morgan Stanley’s Anthony Rochte mentioned in a cellphone interview. “We thought lengthy and arduous about which mutual funds are we going to transform, and which model will we use.”