The Retail Distribution Review has aided the recent rapid growth in ETF usage in the UK says Hector McNeil (pictured), Co-CEO, WisdomTree Europe. "Increasingly with the move to fee-based models, the alignment of the wealth adviser and investors is more
In terms of ETF assets under management, Lyxor Asset Management is in the top three in Europe, with USD54 billion in assets in ETFs, behind iShares and Deutsche Bank. Arnaud Llinas (pictured), Head of ETFs and Indexing at Lyxor Asset
By Nitesh Shah (pictured), ETF Securities – The commodity cycle is turning. Excess supply is being cut back across a broad range of commodities. While it will take time to reduce surplus stock, the trend is now set in the
By Fannie Wurtz, Amundi – The development of Smart Beta solutions has become a major field of innovation in the ETF industry: the wide range of both mono and multi-strategy ETFs allows investors to benefit from a broad choice of
Swiss bank UBS, headquartered in Zurich has been offering ETFs for some time across continental Europe but it was only in the last few years that they entered the UK market from which point their business has been gaining strong
There are convincing signs, including the recent 18-year high of the Nikkei share index, that Abenomics is reinvigorating the world's third largest economy. The Japanese ETF industry too has enjoyed tremendous growth under Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's economic reforms and
Boutique asset managers favour ETFs was one of the findings of a recent survey conducted by research firm TABB Group for software company SunGard. Some 48 per cent saw ETFs as an area of significant demand from investors, with many
Over the last 15 years the fund administration industry has been dominated by the big banking behemoths at one end of the scale and small niche players at the other. Gradually, some of those smaller entities have been consumed. Yet
Focusing on bank-owned administrators, nobody knows the precise reasons as to why investment banks have been vacating the hedge fund administration space other than the banks themselves. One possible explanation is that the integrated model they have been running for
In a report published by eVestment last March (Alternative Fund Administrator Survey 2014), 95 per cent of respondents answered `yes' when asked if mergers and acquisitions were expected to play a role in the hedge fund administration over the next
