BNP Paribas AM launches 4 new generation active ETFs
25 JUN, 2026
By Joanna Piwko from RankiaPro Europe
BNP Paribas AM has announced the listing of four new actively managed exchange-traded funds within its BNP Paribas Easy range: BNP Paribas Easy Equity Premium Income, BNP Paribas Easy European Equity Buffer, BNP Paribas Easy Global Equity Long Short and BNP Paribas Easy Managed Futures. With this move, the manager expands its offer in the universe of UCITS ETFs with strategies designed to respond to more sophisticated investment objectives than traditional exposure to capitalization-weighted indices.
The entity highlights that this launch is supported by the collaboration between BNP Paribas AM and the Global Markets area of BNP Paribas. According to the firm, this alliance combines the capabilities in quantitative strategies, internal models and knowledge of the market structure of Global Markets with the infrastructure, portfolio management resources and liquidity control experience of BNP Paribas AM.
4 active ETFs to expand portfolio construction tools
BNP Paribas Asset Management frames this launch in the rapid growth recorded by the UCITS ETF market in recent years. Although these vehicles have gained weight among an increasingly broad spectrum of investors, the manager emphasizes that much of the current offer remains concentrated in strategies linked to stock market capitalization indices, while demand evolves towards solutions that provide diversification of returns, defined results, income generation and greater stability throughout market cycles.
In this context, two of the new products are oriented towards absolute return strategies. The BNP Paribas Easy Global Equity Long Short aims to generate returns regardless of the direction of traditional equity markets, maintaining a moderate exposure to the global stock market through synthetic long and short positions. The strategy is based on MSCI Barra multifactorial models, assigning long positions to values with high factorial scores and short to those with low scores, with the aim of generating alpha on both sides of the portfolio and limiting net exposure to beta. The firm indicates that this ETF is designed to improve the risk-adjusted return profile, especially in phases of tension or scarce direction in the markets.
For its part, the BNP Paribas Easy Managed Futures aims to increase the value of assets in the medium term with moderate volatility through a diversified basket of long and short positions in futures and forward instruments on different asset classes. The allocation is made systematically and with continuous adjustments to capture persistent trends in prices. BNP Paribas AM emphasizes that this strategy incorporates features historically associated with CTAs, such as low correlation and convexity, which can contribute to diversifying a traditional fixed income and equity portfolio.
Solutions focused on income and risk control
The other two ETFs admitted to trading respond to a focus on income generation and outcome definition. The BNP Paribas Easy Equity Premium Income aims to offer income and capital growth through a portfolio of options on the main stock indices. Its goal is to generate premiums in different market environments, whether they are bullish, sideways, orderly or gradually descending. According to the manager, these premiums allow to build an income flow linked to equities, with less sensitivity to interest rate movements than fixed income alternatives and, usually, with lower volatility than a direct investment in the stock market.
The BNP Paribas Easy European Equity Buffer, on the other hand, provides long exposure to the Euro Stoxx 50 index incorporating a predefined level of protection against falls and a limit to potential profitability. Both the protection threshold and the profit cap are set for a period of one year. This structure, the entity explains, offers the investor a previously established risk framework, which can be especially useful in both wealth accumulation phases and decumulation stages, by facilitating a more controlled management of falls.
Through this new family of ETFs, we want to accelerate our clients' access to sophisticated but essential solutions for the diversification and resilience of their portfolios. We leverage for this, on one hand, the long track record of our teams in structuring synthetic solutions and, on the other hand, the systematic experience of BNP Paribas' Global Markets area. The combination of both competencies allows our clients in Spain and Portugal to access innovative strategies through an ETF.
Sol Hurtado de Mendoza, General Director of BNP Paribas AM for Spain and Portugal
Investors are increasingly seeking investment solutions that transcend traditional market exposure and combine transparency, liquidity, and disciplined risk management. By applying our systematic investment experience, our internal models, and a deep understanding of market dynamics to an ETF format, we expand access to strategies that were historically only available through more specialized vehicles. This launch reflects the Group's ability to pool the expertise of its various divisions and to offer scalable solutions that can respond to the evolution of investors' needs.
Vincent Bérard, Head of Fund Solutions for THEAM Quant in Global Markets at BNP Paribas
