Avantis Investors, a US$54 billion investment offering from US$261 billion global asset manager American Century Investments, has expanded its ETF services into the European market as part of a plan to grow both investment capabilities and client base. Avantis’ investment approach aims to offer the benefits associated with indexing – such as transparency, broad diversification and low fees – while seeking to promote investment in companies with more attractive valuations and profitability characteristics. “We have been asked for a long time now when we will have offerings available outside the US,” said Eduardo Repetto, CIO at Avantis. “Many investors have found value in our approach to building portfolios, and we are happy to bring our low-cost, well-diversified strategies to the European marketplace.” Launched in September 2019, Avantis now has 28 strategies and serves more than 3,500 institutional and advisory clients. Avantis’ growth has driven American Century to be the fourth largest active ETF issuer, and one of the fastest growing ETF issuers globally in the last decade. “Avantis Investors offers core building blocks for an investor’s allocation,” said Richard Adams, Head of EMEA at American Century. “More and more, the clients and prospects we speak with are interested in Avantis, so we’re thrilled to have these available for [them] to access.”
