BUSINESS DAY TV: ETF industry now larger than the hedge-fund industry: Part 2
Debbie Fuhr of ETFGI and Nerina Visser from etfSA discuss the significance of the inclusion of China’s A shares, in the MSCI Emerging Market Index
BUSINESS DAY TV: The ETF (exchange-traded funds) market is growing at an alarming rate and according to ETFGI, ETFs and exchange-traded products listed globally hit a record of $4.1-trillion in assets under management last month, while net inflows totalled $48.3bn. But can this momentum be sustained — and joining us to discuss this further is Debbie Fuhr, managing partner at ETFGI and still with us in the studio is Nerina Visser from etfSA. Thank you Deborah for joining our conversation this evening. So, I was reading articles today and it’s been labelled an ETF revolution moving to a mature stage, certainly in the likes of the US market. How is the development in the ETF market here in SA stacking up? DEBBIE FUHR: Yes, I do think that the market here is really evolving and we’re seeing significant growth. I was last out here two years ago and when I look at what’s happened, we now have smart beta products, you have many different types of products, you have new issuers for retail i...
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