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New players vie to scale heights of big three
iShares, Vanguard and State Street Global Advisors are facing challengers from ETF businesses linked to investment banks and a new wave of providers that have been able to build scale in just a few years full report
Smaller players make their quality mark
Challenging the big three ETF providers is not just a case of competing on scale, it is also giving the customers what they want, which might mean aggressive pricing
Providers focus on alternative space as next opportunity
Industry experts feel sure that the market is far from saturated
Physical vs synthetic debate is hotting up
Strong opinions on competing systems are taking a new form
Revolts seen as marginal to Bric group
The chaos brought by uprisings has underlined risks investments in developing economies carry. But concerns of EM fund managers have not changed radically in its wake
‘Zombies’ are on the march
Derivative-based ETFs make up only about 2 per cent of the owners of UK FTSE 100 companies, but that is set to grow. Get ready for the march of the zombie owners
Synthetic method wins on tracking precision and costs
Thorsten Michalik says swap-backed ETFs offer more accurate total return replication and that much of the worry about them is misplaced
Traditional houses muscle in on sector
Traditional fund houses faced with the continued drain of assets into ETFs are muscling in on the active ETF sector, but launches have so far failed to generate much excitement
Leveraged/inverse products face scrutiny
Regulators are worried about retail investors using leveraged and inverse ETFs, that use derivatives to scale up bets that an asset price will rise or fall
Financial authorities examine potential conflicts of interest
Regulatory changes being proposed and adopted by financial authorities across the globe are poised to put exchange traded funds under the spotlight
