Are your ETFs really doing what you thought?

I don't know about you, but I find most investment industry events and conferences deadly dull.

Death by PowerPoint and verbal assault by quants utilising finely honed logarithmic charts as weapons, are usually the order of the day followed by a pedestrian panel discussion where everyone tries to avoid answering the actual question and instead talks about their amazing fund/project/firm. An event on ETFs hosted by yours truly looked like it was heading this way until it got to one of those panel sessions with a bevvy of leading wealth managers. The subject was whether they used ETFs in their portfolio selection process and how much research they conducted on the funds and the un...