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Institutions tilt towards ETFs, survey says
Institutional investors increasingly turned to exchange traded funds during last year’s market turmoil, according to Barclays Global Investors’ annual review
ETF Securities moves on currency
ETF Securities is launching Europe’s first exchange-traded currency platform this week aimed at instituional and retail investors
Providers strive for the analytical ideal
Demand for fixed-income indices has grown, along with their sophistication
Lagging behind the home deals
Problems in data collection hamper the creation of global indices for real estate
Hedge funds: Still hard to get the whole picture
Data from hedge funds are difficult to capture and quantify, impossible to weight and tricky to trust
Putting a cap on it is not infallible
An array of more sophisticated indices on offer challenge the cap-weighted favourite
Forward rate bias: the ‘inefficiency’ that works
New benchmarks should encourage currency indices investors
Commodity indices: ‘rollover’ practice hits investors
Because the investors sell one future and buy the following one, the shape of the futures curve is crucial to the profitability of commodities indices
Ban swap-based ETFs, says ex-chief of Eurizon
The argument over traditional vs synthetic index products goes on
Stock lending discovers its spiritual home
Exchange traded fund providers gain a lot from this controversial practice
