A Heritage of Excellence
FlexShares are sponsored and managed by Northern Trust, one of the world’s leading investment firms and a premier index manager. FlexShares leverages this global expertise in asset allocation, portfolio construction and risk management. Our mission to advance the ETF development process by building strategies more relevant to investors’ needs is inspired by our Northern Trust heritage of delivering distinctive investment solutions, expertise in index design and sophisticated risk management. In 2011, FlexShares launched its four initial ETFs on the New York Stock Exchange. As of December 30, 2021, FlexShares has 31 U.S. funds with over $20.2 billion in assets under management.
We are proud to serve the investment needs of financial advisors and their clients to help them build a diversified investment portfolio for the long term with creatively designed ETF products that are accessible, goal-oriented, tax efficient and low cost. Our investor-centric approach and unique product engineering methodology combine to produce innovative investment strategies that are helping to shape the next generation of ETFs.
Investor-centric Focus
At FlexShares, our focus is on understanding and responding to investor needs. We design funds that meet specific investment objectives and we continually work to help investors become well-educated consumers of Exchange Traded Funds. We freely share our knowledge and expertise to help investors make informed decisions on how ETFs can best help them achieve their long-term goals.
The FlexShares mission is to provide exchange traded funds that serve as the building blocks for outcome-oriented portfolios. This focus on “investing with purpose” is at the heart of our unique brand of ETFs. Focusing on investor needs and preferences is in our DNA. Our solutions framework focuses on investors’ fundamental needs of growing assets, managing risk, providing liquidity and generating income, objectives that are not achieved overnight. It follows, then, that the funds we offer are differentiated and targeted toward long-term investors. More important to understanding what differentiates our funds, however, is knowing why we do what we do… what principles and values shape our organizational beliefs and business practices.
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Northern Trust
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Tom Pinto
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Northern Trust
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April 21, 2022Northern Trust Asset Management's FlexShares Exchange Traded Funds announced today the launch of a new suite of core Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG)* ETFs focused on climate.
September 21, 2021FlexShares® Exchange Traded Funds today announced the liquidation and termination of two exchange-traded funds: FlexShares Currency Hedged Morningstar DM ex-US Factor Tilt Index Fund (TLDH) and FlexShares Currency Hedged Morningstar EM Factor Tilt Index Fund (TLEH).
December 16, 2020FlexShares® Exchange Traded Funds today announced new underlying indices for two of its bond funds.
April 30, 2020FlexShares® will transfer the listings of FlexShares US Quality Large Cap Index Fund (QLC), FlexShares Credit-Scored US Long Corporate Bond Index Fund (LKOR) and FlexShares STOXX® Global ESG Impact Index Fund (ESGG).
September 27, 2019FlexShares Exchange Traded Funds today announced the results of their first Executive Investors survey of primary household breadwinners.
July 30, 2019Client growth, compliance and regulation, and political uncertainty rank as top three sources of advisor stress in 2018.
February 26, 2019