As institutional money increasingly flows into ETFs, market watcjers are beginning to question whether the high fees charged by hedge fund managers are still justifiable.
A tweet by Corey Hoffstein highlighted that the Simplify Market Neutral Equity Long Short ETF (NYSE:EQLS) (expense ratio = 1%) recently bagged $104 million from General Electric’s pension fund. Earlier, Michigan’s pension fund had also put in $364 million in another of Simplify’s ETFs.
Given the state of the mortgage market, Simplify has recently launched its Simplify MBS ETF (NYSE:MTBA) investing in mortgage-backed securities (MBS), as reported by Bloomberg. The fund seeks to provide attractive yields versus comparable U.S. Treasuries while carrying little to no credit risk.
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