Natixis IM To Launch Climate-Focused ETF
At Natixis Investment Managers Thought Leadership Summit, held in Paris last week and attended by this news service, Fabrice Chemouny announced the launch of a new active exchange-traded fund.
As a number of investment managers expand their range of ETFs,
Fabrice Chemouny (pictured), head of international distribution
at Natixis
Investment Managers, announced in Paris that they will launch
a new active ETF in the second half of 2026, focused on tackling
climate change.
“It’s an important area of focus,” Chemouny said at the Paris
Summit. He told delegates that a lot of investment managers
have been increasing their range of ETFs recently. “The ETF
business grew significantly first in the US – which offers
tax advantages for ETFs – and then everywhere in the world.
We don’t have the same tax framework but many firms are going
into ETFs,” he said. “Every day an announcement about a new
active ETF is being launched by an asset manager.”
“We are not launching a range of ETFs for the pleasure of doing
it. We are always focusing on the climate. We will participate in
the party, but in a very selective manner,” Chemouny said at the
Paris Summit.
An ETF is a basket of securities such as stocks and/or bonds that
are held in a single fund that is bought or sold on an exchange.
The market has surged in recent years as investors and advisors
have sought lower-cost ways of obtaining market exposure.
In the US, ETFs offer superior tax efficiency through so-called
“in-kind” redemptions that minimise capital gains tax. While in
the EU, Irish-domiciled (UCITS) ETFs are favoured, as Ireland has
a range of tax treaties which can, for instance, reduce
withholding taxes on US dividends to 15 per
cent.
US-headquartered investment managers Franklin
Templeton and Invesco have
been boosting
their range of ETFs recently. US-based State Street
Investment Management has published its
2025 EMEA Wealth Manager Survey recently, showing that ETFs
remain dominant, with rising demand. In a time of macroeconomic
uncertainty and industry change, the survey shows that 88 per
cent of wealth managers expect to use ETFs more frequently in
client portfolios. Dimensional
Fund Advisors, a large US-based active exchange-traded fund
manager, has also officially launched
its first active European ETF.
Paris-based asset manager Ossiam, a subsidiary of Natixis
Investment Managers, who’s CEO Bruno Poulin attended the Paris
Summit, also heavily involved with exchange-traded funds.
See more
here about Ossiam.
Natixis Investment Managers, which is headquartered in Paris and
Boston, has more than $1.5 trillion in assets under
management.
