More and more financial advisers are turning to exchange-traded funds to build the core of their client’s portfolios, The Wall Street Journal reports.
Once satellite tools, the proliferation of ETFs and companies that sponsor them has made using them as the backbone of their clients’ accounts far simpler.
One reason ETFs are attractive to advisers is that during market downturns, their trade-all-day agility helps control losses.
The fact that they require no minimum investments, have low expenses and offer tax advantages adds to their appeal, advisers said.
Their diversification saves advisers form having to choose between equally attractive stocks, also, said Michael Jones, chief investment officer at
In the future, he said, he sees the strength of ETFs as the Achilles heel of the mutual fund industry, bringing with them the potential to weed out weak contenders.
“If I was a bad [mutual fund] manager,” Feight said, “I would be quaking in my boots.”
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