July 28 (Bloomberg) — Capital Group Cos., owners of the $1.17 trillion American Funds family, has joined a number of money managers in seeking regulatory approval for a new type of exchange-traded fund.
Capital Group filed today with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to open a non-transparent, actively-managed ETF, a product that would clear the way for traditional stock-picking managers to offer their funds in an ETF package.
"We are filing so we can fully explore the possibility of offering a non-transparent ETF," Chuck Freadhoff, a spokesman for the Los Angeles-based company, said today in an interview. "We've made no final decision and have no timeframe."
Active ETFs combine the security selection of an actively managed fund with the intraday trading and some of the cost-saving characteristics of traditional ETFs. Companies have been discouraged from introducing such products by the SEC's requirement for daily disclosure of fund holdings, which would make it easy for competitors to copy, and traders to anticipate, a manager's portfolio changes.
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