ETF / Index

A new EDHEC-Risk Institute publication entitled “Risk Allocation, Factor Investing and Smart Beta: Reconciling Innovations in Equity Portfolio Construction,” drawn from the Amundi ETF & Indexing research chair at EDHEC-Risk Institute on “ETF and Passive Investment Strategies,” shows that it is possible to reconcile the performance of smart beta with control over the risk of the investment.

Koris International, European reference in dynamic asset allocation solutions, today announces the launch of TrackInsightTM, the first platform providing analyses on the replication quality of European ETFs for institutional investors.

ETFGI’s research finds ETFs and ETPs globally have gathered a record 199.0 billion US dollars in net new assets through the end of Q3 2014, surpassing the previous high of US$185.8 Bn set in the first three quarters of 2012.

Source, an investment firm and one of the market-leading European providers of Exchange Traded Products (ETPs), and Ashmore, a specialist, active investment manager with more than 20 years’ experience in Emerging Markets, have partnered to launch the first funds in Europe that offer Ashmore’s expertise within an efficient, actively managed ETF structure.

Amundi is targeting its ETF & Indexing expertise as one of the core axes of its development strategy, with the aim of reaching AuM of $100bn (€75bn) in the next three years.