BlackRock releases ETF reference guide

BlackRock Asset Management Canada Ltd. has published a new ETF guide.

iShares Connect: a Guide to ETF Investment Strategists is a quarterly reference guide designed to help advisors, broker-dealers, consultants, program participants and investors to identify ETF investment strategists and managers.

The iShares Connect Program in Canada currently features 11 investment strategists, and this number is expected to grow.

The guide provides information on each strategist’s investment philosophy, portfolio management team, portfolio objective, performance history, top holdings, and asset class and sector weights. In order to be included in the program, strategists must hold approximately 75% ETFs excluding cash; have a minimum of one year of performance data; their portfolio must not be structured and offered as a prospectus-qualified mutual fund in Canada; and their company must be registered to do business in Canada.

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