Big institutions making their move to ETFs

September 23, 2009
By cam

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Excerpt:

“Exchange-traded funds, once the purview of retail and small institutional investors, are increasingly flowing into the investment portfolios of larger institutions globally.

Either allocated through their outside money managers or directly invested by an internal staff, ETFs are becoming more of an option for large institutions to implement certain passive strategies. They prefer the quick access of ETFs compared to a separate account and the added transparency compared to a derivatives approach using, for example, futures.”

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