Rob Langston looks at the exchangetraded product industry, which until fairly recently has been largely overlooked by financial regulators.

First published:

What Investment

Date of publication:

1 June 2011

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A row has broken out in the exchange traded fund industry after regulators raised concerns over the structure.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) earlier this year highlighted the practice by European providers of using derivative contracts to replicate index performance, known as swap-based ETFs.