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title: Active ETFs Cloned from Mutual Funds: Competing for Investor Flows
url: https://www.ml-quant.com/papers/ssrn/4653702/
site: ML-Quant (https://www.ml-quant.com)
updated: 2026-09-26
license: Summaries CC BY 4.0; links go to the original sources
index: https://www.ml-quant.com/llms.txt
identifier: SSRN 4653702
source_url: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4653702
featured: 2023-12-06
citations: 1
topic: Portfolio & Allocation
---


# Active ETFs Cloned from Mutual Funds: Competing for Investor Flows

The research indicates that less transparent active ETFs do not affect mutual fund investor flows, instead, the reputation of the cloned mutual funds helps the new ETFs attract more flows.

- Source: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4653702
- Identifier: SSRN 4653702
- Released: 2023-12-05
- First featured: Quant Letter No. 28 (2023-12-06): https://www.ml-quant.com/issues/2023-12-06/
- Citations (Semantic Scholar): 1
- Published in: not yet
- Topic: Portfolio & Allocation

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