Cross-asset and market insights from Allspring Global Investments.

Allspring Global Investments provides an educational overview of actively managed ETFs, highlighting their potential for outperformance, tax efficiency, intraday tradability, and daily transparency. The piece compares active ETFs with mutual funds and separately managed accounts (SMAs), outlining the trade-offs in cost, customization, and liquidity to help investors determine the most suitable vehicle.

Allspring argues that active core fixed income ETFs offer meaningful advantages over passive strategies - including broader market access, more flexible duration and credit positioning, and superior risk management - by moving beyond the constraints of debt-weighted indexes like the Bloomberg U.S. Aggregate. The piece promotes Allspring's own active core and core plus ETF strategies as tax-efficient vehicles capable of delivering enhanced yield and total return in volatile market environments.

Allspring's head of ETF Capital Markets, Molly Landes, explains the three layers of ETF liquidity: on-screen secondary market volume, broker-assisted off-screen liquidity, and underlying primary market creation/redemption liquidity. The video emphasizes that visible trading volume understates true ETF liquidity capacity, and that the creation/redemption mechanism is the largest source of liquidity.

Allspring's head of ETF Capital Markets, Molly Landes, outlines three key best practices for trading ETFs: using limit orders instead of market orders, avoiding trading at the market open or close to benefit from tighter bid/ask spreads, and leveraging ETF issuers or brokers for liquidity support on larger trades. The short video is aimed at helping investors improve trade execution quality and reduce transaction costs when buying or selling ETFs.

Allspring's head of ETF Capital Markets, Molly Landes, discusses the growing popularity of ETFs among individual and institutional investors, highlighting their transparency, tax efficiency, and flexibility. The piece also covers the surge in active ETFs and the potential impact of multi-share-class ETFs on mutual fund tax efficiency.