Active investment expertise
Combines active investment management with an exchange-traded structure, allowing investment teams to respond to changing market conditions and seek opportunities beyond index-tracking approaches
Diversification
Active ETFs can provide diversified exposure across securities, sectors or markets through a single vehicle. They may be used as core or satellite allocations, and can complement traditional passive building blocks.
Flexibility & transparency
Exchange trading, intraday pricing and regular holdings disclosure may provide institutional investors with greater visibility and flexibility when implementing and monitoring exposures.
Schroders Group’s active ETF capabilities
For more than 220 years, Schroders Group has evolved with changing markets and client needs. Today, our active ETF capabilities bring together deep asset-class expertise, experienced investment professionals, proprietary research and an efficient global operating platform.
Active ETFs extend these established capabilities through an exchange-traded structure. They are designed to provide access to active investment approaches while offering the potential benefits of transparency, trading flexibility and operational efficiency.
Across equities and fixed income, the Group’s active ETF strategies draw on established investment processes and disciplined risk management.
Our strategies
Combining fundamental insight, quantitative analysis and investment expertise, our active equity ETF strategies are designed to uncover opportunities across equity markets through disciplined security selection and robust risk management.
Our active fixed income ETF strategies combine specialist research, quantitative tools and investment expertise to identify investment grade opportunities across bond markets. Disciplined security selection and portfolio construction are supported by robust risk management
How should investors assess an active ETF?
The ETF structure is only one part of the assessment. In this video, Tom Stephens, Head of ETFs at Schroders Group, outlines a practical framework for evaluating active ETF strategies – from the source of potential value and portfolio construction to governance, liquidity, implementation and the strategy’s intended role in a portfolio.
Active ETFs gain momentum in APAC
Asia-Pacific ETF assets rose 14% in Q2 2026 to a record USD 2.7 trillion, with most major markets reaching new highs.¹
Reflecting this momentum, 95% of APAC investors surveyed see a role for active ETFs in portfolios.² Investors value the potential to access active management through a flexible, transparent and liquid structure, with applications ranging from core and satellite allocations to tactical positioning, diversification and risk management.
¹ Morningstar, APAC ETF Flows Q2 2026.
² Schroders Global Investor Insights Survey 2026.
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