Innovator’s Ashenden on Risk-Managed Exposure

Overview

Buffer ETFs, which use options to limit losses and offer upside potential, have taken in around $10 billion in new flows this year as their popularity grows. On this episode of Inside Active, host David Cohne, mutual fund and active-management analyst with Bloomberg Intelligence, along with co-host James Seyffart, a BI ETF analyst, spoke with Burke Ashenden, director of capital markets at Innovator ETFs, about the rise of defined-outcome ETFs. They examine the unique features that set them apart from traditional investment funds, and how they provide risk-managed exposure. They also discussed how the underlying management of these products works.