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.
Why Schroders for active ETFs?
At Schroders, we’ve navigated social and economic change for over 220 years.
Underpinning this longevity has been the ability to meet clients’ needs through innovative and relevant solutions that deliver excellent long-term investment opportunities.
We believe that active ETFs continue this tradition through providing an innovative vehicle for clients to access our proven investment capabilities. This includes deep asset class expertise, exceptional talent and an efficient global operating platform.
Our approach to active ETFs is no different to our other offerings and is built around delivering consistent, long-term growth for our clients. By focusing on the intrinsic value and potential of investments, we endeavour to provide resilient, long-term returns despite market fluctuations. As an active ETF provider, we offer both active equity ETFs and active fixed income ETFs to meet varied investor needs.
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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