In this week's fund news, direct indexing platform Veriti nears $1 billion in AUM; J.P. Morgan to convert four mutual funds to ETFs; and Hartford enters the ESG ETF market.

J.P. Morgan follows in the footsteps of Guinness Atkinson and Dimensional Fund Advisors with its plan to convert four equity mutual funds into similar active transparent ETFs next year.

In this week’s fund news, Alerian buys ETF Trends and ETF Database; fund companies are giving VC firms a run for their money; and crypto asset manager Grayscale hires a new head of ETFs.

Wealthfront’s newfound enthusiasm for portfolio customization means the firm is now offering Bitcoin and Ethereum trusts tracked against CoinDesk indexes.

In this week's fund news, iM Global Partner continues U.S. expansion; ProFunds debuts the first Bitcoin strategy mutual fund; and investors have saved $357 billion thanks to passive indexing.

Socially responsible investors may very well have a unique opportunity to profitably shape the future of a greener economy. 

In this week's fund news, Parametric debuts lower minimums for tax-managed SMAs; Viridi launches first clean energy crypto mining fund in the U.S.; and index-based products drove a notable record for fund inflows over the first half of the year.

In this week’s fund news, Vanguard and BlackRock take stakes in Just Invest and SpiderRock, respectively; Goldman rolls out its first transparent active equity ETF; and Jacob Asset Management gets into the ETF business.

Vanguard leads the way as industry prepares to shatter annual record with months to go.

While fiduciaries do not have to avoid ESG-related investments, they do need to put them through the same prudent, thorough and well-documented process that they use to consider all plan investments.