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this investment vehicle.
Cost and the rise of multi-asset trading
clearly also plays a large part in this growth
story. Many of our investors are using ETFs as
a cost-efficient way to implement active strat-
egies, whether on the building block strategic
side or as part of the tactical asset allocation
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example, and the increase in performance on
the ETF side when comparing them to the
gross return indices.
What are you hoping to take away from Trade-
Tech this year?
TD: With fees continuing to decrease across
trades in between. I am hoping to hear
some insightful discussions around how our
investors are looking at ETF execution in the
post-MIFID II world and how this affects the
ecosystem surrounding them.
Which sessions at TradeTech are you looking
“We live in an on-demand society which has been
brought about by having technology at our fingertips.
ETFs are as much an example of this as any.”
decision.
We have seen from a number of investors
that ETFs are quickly becoming substitutes
for futures and other Delta One instruments
due to the rise in costs on the futures side, for
the ETF passive industry, trading ETFs
efficiently becomes an increasingly signifi-
cant component of any investor’s total cost
of ownership, not just on the initial purchase
and the sell, but also on all of the rebalance
forward to and why?
TD: I think it is great that ETFs are featuring
more and more at this conference and the
Stream C panel sessions in the afternoon of Day
1 should have some very insightful discussions.
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