Sep 2011
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ETF bashing continues - investors ignore media phenomenon

22/09/2011 10:08
Yesterday at the IMN conference I was asking the audience if they have heard of the rogue trading incident at UBS. All hands went up. The audience was consisting mainly of investment professionals.


Next question was if the audience thinks that ETFs have been used for this transactions: Not one participant raised his or her hand!


At the same time media kept bashing ETFs and reported that the 2.3 Bn. USD loss at UBS’s delta-one-desk was caused by the misuse of ETFs even after UBS had released a statement that they were not.

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IMN European Cup of ETFs and Investment Management Chair

19/09/2011 08:00
Today we chair the European Cup of ETFs and Investment Management organised by IMN. The agenda includes a keynote by Britain’s most heard economist, Roger Bootle.

We also moderate a panel featuring a look on the European ETF landscape.


The agenda can be found here.

Indexing Inflation

15/09/2011 10:00
In the lastest issue the Journal of Indexes Europe brings four different approaches to you how to hedge inflation with intelligent index strategies (we read them all!).

Jan Altmann from 4asset-management is member of the editorial board of the Journal of Indexes.



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