European ETF market may be going physical

"The market is voting for direct replication at this point in time, some people who are currently in the synthetic space will be thinking about their business model," says Tobin. Tobin's new business, ETF Opportunity Partners - founded with another ex-iShares CEO, Lee Kranefuss - will help the market to make this change. "Our business is essentially being positioned to be a catalyst for that change to help people with their thought process about how to migrate from synthetic to direct replication and how to access new avenues for growth." He says that the growth in iShares' assets ...