ETP

COMMODITIES

Investors have been trading equities en masse, according to the latest data from BlackRock, with 94% of a record $262.7bn of flows accounted for by the asset class last month.

Hector McNeil, an ex managing partner of ETF Securities, has predicted major consolidation in the ETF industry over the next few years.

In the latest Conjecture debate, our panelists from ETF Securities and S&P Capital IQ discussed ETFs.

Some 54% of fund managers are set to increase their exposure to ETPs and ETFs over the next three years, with a quarter anticipating an increase of 10% or more.

Exchange-traded products gathered net new assets of $67.3bn during the first quarter of 2012, making it the best start to the year ever for the industry.

BlackRock has called on the European markets authority to improve the way exchange-traded products are labelled, including identifying synthetics, and increase transparency over conflicts of interest.

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