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Actively managed ETFs
Actively managed ETFs (AMETFs) are quite recent in the United States. The first one was offered in March 2008, but it was liquidated in October 2008. The actively managed ETFs approved to date are fully transparent, publishing their current securities portfolios on their web sites daily. However, the SEC has indicated that it is willing to consider allowing actively managed ETFs that are not fully transparent in the future.[4]
The fully transparent nature of existing ETFs means that an actively managed ETF is at risk from arbitrage activities by market participants who might choose to front run its trades[citation needed]. The initial actively traded equity ETFs have addressed this problem by trading only weekly or monthly, however today, actively managed ETFs trade at the discretion of the manager and to date, there have been no instances of front running. Actively traded debt ETFs, which are less susceptible to front-running, trade their holdings more frequently.[30]
Actively managed ETFs have grown faster in their first three years of existence than index ETFs did in their first three years of existence. However, as track records develop, many see actively managed ETFs as a significant competitive threat to actively managed mutual funds