Lipper's EMEA research head: Blaming ETFs has become a sport for active managers

Should focus on delivering outperformance

Tom Eckett
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Detlef Glow, head of EMEA research at Thomson Reuters Lipper, has said active managers need to start proving performance comparisons wrong by delivering outperformance instead of "moaning" about the risks of ETFs.

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