The Future of ETFs will gather leading issuers, industry experts, and a range of voices across finance to examine the latest disruptive threats and opportunities facing the European ETF sector. We’ll dive into the most pressing issues including how factors like concentration, liquidity, and innovation could further develop the path of the current ETF space. We’ll examine what’s really under the hood of indexes and what the significant differences are between providers and their methodologies. And, looking towards the future, for a financial industry under pressure to evolve and innovate, we’ll find out the extent to which investment teams and executives are harnessing cognitive diversity to provide them with an edge.
June 5 - Wednesday
Registration & Networking Breakfast
Welcome & Opening Remarks
Host
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Athanasios Psarofagis
EMEA ETF Analyst, Bloomberg Intelligence
Speaker
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Axel Lomholt
Head of ETFs International, Vanguard
The Shape of the ETF Industry
As growth and adoption of ETFs only increases, a handful of large providers dominate one end of the spectrum with niche providers at the other—and many are beginning to debate the future implications of this landscape. Is this a good or bad thing for the industry and what will it mean for investors, both professional and retail? In terms of competition, where is the industry heading both regionally and globally? Also how could factors like regulation, liquidity, and innovation further develop or change the path of the current market? With views from across the ETF eco-system we’ll look to draw conclusions for what’s to come.
Speakers
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Clarisse Djabbari
Head of Strategy & Development, Amundi ETF, Indexing & Smart Beta
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Andrew Jamieson
Managing Director & Global Head of ETF Product, Citigroup
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Thomas Merz
Head of Distribution, Europe, Ex-UK, Vanguard
Moderator
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Athanasios Psarofagis
EMEA ETF Analyst, Bloomberg Intelligence
Bloomberg Presentation: Unearthing Europe’s ETF Landscape
Through fresh, in-depth data and analysis on ETFs in Europe we’ll bring investors up to speed as to where the trends, flows, and numbers stand in a 2019 mid-year outlook. Bloomberg Intelligence will bring you the story and the insights through the terminal charts.
Presenter
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Athanasios Psarofagis
EMEA ETF Analyst, Bloomberg Intelligence
The Future of Benchmarking
Benchmarks have served a crucial role in investing for decades but looking to the future, it’s worth discussing how these performance tools are evolving. While it represents a “passive” investment approach, what’s really under the hood of your index and what are the significant differences between providers and their methodologies? The biggest and most heavily invested indices are still owned by a handful of providers so is there any investor concern about concentration risk? And with indexing expanding to other asset classes, themes, and trends like self-indexing, where might it go next?
Speakers
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Isabelle Bourcier
Head of Quantitative and Index Management, BNP Paribas Asset Management
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Fong Yee Chan
Senior Product Manager, Sustainable Investment, FTSE Russell
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Sanjay Rao
Product Manager, Bloomberg Barclays Indices Europe
Moderator
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Yakob Peterseil
Editor, ETFs Brief, Bloomberg News
Staying Ahead by Thinking Differently
The finance sector is under continuous pressure to innovate, grow, and move swiftly. Staying ahead of the competition, offering attractive new investments, and delivering alpha requires an edge that ETFs can deliver, but only with the right ingredients. What are executives doing, therefore, to inspire ETF innovation? On the asset management side how are finance leaders viewing future allocation and implementation? What are the team dynamics that make a real difference to promoting cognitive diversity and inspiring creative, bold decision-making? And ultimately, how can firms creatively stand out today by using AI-related technologies and robo-advisers whilst avoiding potential biases and recognising the value of human oversight?
Speakers
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Christophe Boucher
Head of Quantitative Research and Strategy, ABN AMRO Investment Solutions
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David Ganozzi
Chief Investment Officer, Yomoni
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Arnaud Llinas
Head of ETFs & Indexing, Lyxor Asset Management
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Hortense Bioy
Director, Passive Strategies and Sustainability Research Europe, Morningstar
Moderator
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Yakob Peterseil
Editor, ETFs Brief, Bloomberg News
Closing Remarks & Networking
Event Concludes

Nejra Cehic
Anchor Bloomberg Television and Radio
Sean Hagerty
Managing Director Vanguard Europe
Deborah Fuhr
Managing Partner & Co-Founder ETFGI
Axel Lomholt
Head of ETFs International Vanguard
Slawomir Rzeszotko
Head of Institutional Sales & Trading, Europe Jane Street
Athanasios Psarofagis
EMEA ETF Analyst Bloomberg Intelligence
William Hobbs
Chief Investment Officer Barclays Investment Solutions, Barclays UK
Sanjay Rao
Product Manager Bloomberg Barclays Indices Europe
Steffen Scheuble
Chief Executive Officer Solactive
Dani Burger
Reporter Bloomberg TV and Radio
Irene Bauer
Chief Investment Officer, Founding Partner Twenty20 Investments
Bryon Lake
Managing Director, Head of International ETFs JP Morgan