The $1.4 trillion asset manager expects to complete the process of flipping two mutual funds with roughly $250 million of assets into ETFs by the third or fourth quarter of next year.
In this week's fund news, Ritholtz and WisdomTree launch the RWM WisdomTree Crypto Index, Thrivent gets into the ETF business, Apollo moves further into wealth management, and the first NFT-focused ETF comes to market.
In this week's fund news, Voya acquires the investment advisory business of Tygh Capital Management; Hartford launches first semitransparent ETF; VanEck's bitcoin futures ETF lists; and Schwab introduces its first active and ESG ETF.
Franklin Templeton's announcement it will buy Lexington Partners, a private equity fund manager, for $1.75 billion, comes on the heels of T. Rowe Price's $4.2 billion purchase of Oak Hill Advisors.