ETF/ETC

Regulation is laying the foundations for funds of ETFs and greater adoption of these products among IFAs, writes Matthew Craig.

Investment boutique VAM Funds is seeking Ucits authorisation for two funds in Luxembourg, to distribute them in the UK.

Evercore Pan Asset Capital Management has launched two new portfolios investing primarily in exchange traded funds.

F&C's Robert Siddles believes US small caps will act as good inflation hedge when CPI starts to rise.

Jupiter CIO John Chatfeild-Roberts is keeping the strong recent inflows into his Merlin range in cash to allow him to invest into periods of weakness caused by heightened market volatility.

Several milestones in the exchange traded funds (ETF) industry are expected in 2010, with global assets under management having recently passed $1trn and the 1,000th product likely to launch soon

The introduction of exchange-traded funds that are cheap, transparent and easy to trade has heralded a recent explosion in the number of different types of strategies available to the investor.

Allianz Global Investors has received shareholder approval to convert its Global Equity vehicle into its first multi asset Oeic.

As the debate between passive vs active investing continues to divide opinion, a fine balance exists between the two, wherein it is possible to get a passive underlay with an active overlay. In such precarious times, balance is everything

Cost and value were the central factors in the active or passive debate 15 years ago and it is much the same today, the major difference being that funds find themselves in competition with their own peers rather than each other