Data dominates

Our interview this week with Nabeel Ansari, Director, Asset Management Advisory and European Solutions at Broadridge, reveals the importance of clean data. Broadridge garners its data through direct manager data submissions, a detailed research programme sizing individual markets, as well as its position in the North American market through its proxy voting services all of which enables the firm to track assets, flows and revenues for a number of investment vehicles, including ETFs globally.

"Everything funnels into the ETF conversation," Ansari says, noting that the key ETF trend lies in the active/passive ETF discussion. "You can’t get away from the fact that the movement to passive is something that managers can’t ignore," Ansari says. "We expect passive ETFs to continue to grow at 8 per cent over the next three years, but active to grow at 16 per cent."

We published the March review of the global, digital markets this week, brought to you by CoinDesk Indices, Trackinsight and ETF Express. Author Joshua de Vos writes that with Q2 now underway, investors will be watching closely for macro clarity on US interest rates, and regulatory updates on ETH staking and altcoin ETF approvals; both of which could play a decisive role in shaping flows through the next quarter, he says.

Our next awards event is in Canada, hosted by the Toronto Stock Exchange on 29th May. Voting is open for ETF service providers and ETF issuers, drawn from data from Trackinsight, in Canada – vote now for your favourite firms by following this link. Today is the last day for voting.

Beverly Chandler, Managing Editor

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