Windhaven puts focus on ETFs

Windhaven Investment Management was an early investor in ETFs, and they are now the key building blocks of their various funds. By Andrew Capon

The events of the past five years have forced a lot of people to question their assumptions – that central bankers had eliminated boom and bust; that big banks would not be allowed to fail; that a eurozone sovereign could not default. For many investors, these experiences have also provided further evidence that many of the assumptions underlying modern portfolio theory, the intellectual bedrock of investment management, are fundamentally flawed.

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