Schroders has launched two new active exchange traded funds; the Schroder Europe Equity Active UCITS ETF and Schroder Japan Equity Active UCITS ETF.
The two new ETFs will give investors with access to actively-managed, regional equity strategies focused on identifying companies with attractive value and quality characteristics in Europe and Japan respectively.
They will share the same underlying investment philosophy and process as existing Schroders’ Equity ETFs and are similar to the Schroder QEP Global Core strategy, all managed by the Schroders Quantitative Equity Products (QEP) investment team.
The new ETFs have been listed on the XETRA Deutsche Borse today, with further listings on the London Stock Exchange, Borsa Italiana and SIX Swiss Exchange to follow.
Schroders listed its first two UCITS active ETFs in September 2025, adding a Custom Global Equity ETF and US Equity ETF in the first half of 2026.
The asset manager currently manages £2.74bn in ETF assets under management.
Tom Stephens, head of ETFs at Schroders, said: “These ETFs will provide clients with greater choice in how they access Schroders’ active investment expertise by broadening our highly diversified regional equity offering. They also offer solutions with limited index relative risk, alongside the potential for incremental alpha generation across market environments.”
The Schroder Europe Equity Active UCITS ETF is benchmarked against the MSCI Europe (Net TR) Index and the Schroder Japan Equity Active UCITS ETF against the MSCI Japan (Net TR) Index.
An ETF (exchange-traded fund) is a single security that pools money from multiple investors to buy a basket of assets. Most ETFs are massively managed index funds aiming to replicate an index, with fewer actively managed options. They are considered a low cost investment option and trade on public stock exchanges.