Trading in the open

The development of the trading market for exchange-traded funds in Europe will depend on improvements in the reporting of off-exchange activity, though the wait for European legislation will be a long one. Further benefits would result from greater diversity among ETFs and better reporting technology at exchanges. Richard Jory reports

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Michael John Lytle

The trading of exchange-traded funds (ETFs) in Europe is far greater than it first appears, mainly because the trading figures released by stock exchanges do not include the vast wealth of the investments that change hands in the over-the-counter market. But this truth cannot disguise the drag on market development that is being caused by the high degree of similarity between ETFs in Europe, most of which trade in low volumes on a multitude of exchanges.

“European ETFs do not begin to see the

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