New York Life buys IndexIQ to expand liquid alts offering, add hedge fund ETFs
Deal adds $1.5 billion in AUM to N.Y. Life, including $950 million in multi-strategy exchange-traded fund.
New York Life Insurance Co. agreed to buy asset manager IndexIQ, pushing into exchange-traded funds and adding offerings for retail investors who want to copy hedge-fund approaches.
The transaction “puts us into the forefront of two very important growth trends in the industry,” Drew Law
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