Exchange-traded funds can still compete in today’s “stock picker’s” market, according to a top investor.
“A lot of money is moving into active ETFs, because they provide the benefits that you have from active management. [or] from stock picking … but also all the tax benefits and cost benefits that you have in an ETF,” Avantis Investors Chief Investment Officer Eduardo Repetto told CNBC’s “ETF Edge” last week.
He predicts that actively managed ETFs will continue to gain traction in the second half of the year.
“We used to only have index ETFs,” Repetto said. However, he emphasized that this has changed over the past three years as the number of actively managed ETFs has increased.
Repetto’s company is behind the Avantis US Equity ETF, an actively managed portfolio of US stocks. Its website shows that the main holdings of the fund are Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta Platforms and Alphabet.
As of Friday, the ETF is up 12% this year and 49% over the past three years.