Forecasting the next big trends in asset management

The asset management industry predicted that exchange-trade funds (ETFs) would be a key vehicle by which investors would allocate capital to Asia, according to research conducted by AsianInvestor and Clifford Chance last year. Twelve months on, the jury is out on this forecast. Given that asset managers are struggling to beat their indices, investors have been jumping ship and moving into ETFs. According to EPFR data stock market ETFs have absorbed $7.6 billion of investment in …