Technical Update: Exchange traded funds

Exchange Traded Funds and Exchange Traded Products have been in the news recently as a high profile court case involving synthetic ETF trading has emerged. Despite their promise of relatively low cost investment and suitability for long term investing, has the sector been tarnished by this bad publicity? Alexandre Houpert of ETF provider SG Lyxor looks at the recent concerns about ETFs and at how the sector is responding.

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