BlackRock has called on the European markets authority to improve the way exchange-traded products are labelled, including identifying synthetics, and increase transparency over conflicts of interest.
The ETF market is the latest segment of the industry to ask itself this question. It is a path which in the last decade has been trodden by the structured investments and split capital investment trust sectors.
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The predictions of consolidation within the asset management industry come and go with the economic cycles and stock market volatility.
SPDR ETFs, the exchange traded funds (ETF) platform of State Street Global Advisors (SSgA), has listed a range of physically-backed equity and fixed income ETFs on the London Stock Exchange.