A useful route to passive investment?
Our experts debated the following issues:- How are institutional investors using ETFs/smart beta? What are they targeting and what are they hoping to achieve
- Do smart beta indexations deserve to play a growing role in portfolios?
- From Bitcoin to Quality Income: are we seeing a new generation of promising products and indices?
- Why invest in these indices through an ETF?
- How do ETFs perform when tracking non- market cap weighted indices? How does performance and behaviour differ?
- How workable is smart beta for fixed income?
Deon Dreyer, principal investment consultant, Quantum Advisory
Deborah Fuhr, managing partner, ETFGI
James Waterworth, vice president UK and Ireland institutional ETF sales, Lyxor
Jane Welsh, head of indexation research, Towers Watson
Giles Craven, trustee executive, BESTrustees & chairman, Waterways Pension Fund
Ana Harris, portfolio strategist, State Street Global Advisors
John St Hill, senior portfolio manager, Pension Protection Fund
Sebastian Cheek, deputy editor, portfolio institutional
