ETF success fuels active versus passive debate

Exchange traded funds are enjoying new-found prominence and their success in volatile markets is fuelling the active versus passive debate

This week's Conjecture debate looks at the subject of exchange traded funds and their growing prominence amid the current volatile stock markets, which have thrown a spotlight on the active versus passive fund management debate. The panel consists of Dan Draper, global head of Lyxor ETFs, Deborah Fuhr, MD and global head of ETF research and implementation strategy at BGI, John Davies who is senior director of business development at Standard & Poor's and Eleanor Hope-Bell, head of wealth management sales team within the financial institutions group of iShares. What are the key features ...