Waystone has joined SIX Swiss Exchange as a new issuer of exchange-traded funds (ETFs), marking its debut with the launch of the Bellevue Healthcare UCITS ETF, the exchange revealed on Thursday.
Waystone Joins SIX Swiss Exchange as New ETF Issuer
The new fund, created through Waystone’s white-label ETF platform, allows Bellevue Asset Management to expand its suite of actively managed products available to investors.
Bellevue, itself listed on SIX, specialises in healthcare, entrepreneurial small- and mid-cap strategies, and multi-asset investments.
The Bellevue Healthcare ETF combines active portfolio management with the advantages of exchange trading, including transparency, efficiency, and liquidity.
It joins a marketplace that continues to grow in diversity: SIX now hosts 32 ETF issuers and 2,090 ETFs. So far this year, 238 new ETFs have been listed, 83 of them actively managed – the highest number of new active listings in eight years.
Paul Heffernan, CEO of Waystone ETFs, said: “The European ETF landscape is undergoing rapid transformation, with active strategies emerging as a key growth driver. Our platform is designed to enable partners like Bellevue to bring their expertise into the ETF space without the burden of building infrastructure from scratch.”
David Smith, Head of ETF Sales at SIX, welcomed the addition of Waystone: “The steady arrival of new entrants emphasises that, even 25 years after launching our ETF segment, the market continues to grow in attractiveness.”
Waystone ETFs operates as an institutional platform with more than two decades of experience in asset management, supported by sales teams across London, Dublin, Geneva and Frankfurt.
