{"id":34126,"date":"2014-04-24T07:02:59","date_gmt":"2014-04-24T05:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/innovation\/koris-international-provides-european-institutional-investors-with-full-transparency-on-etfs-risks-and-performance\/"},"modified":"2014-04-24T07:02:59","modified_gmt":"2014-04-24T05:02:59","slug":"koris-international-provides-european-institutional-investors-with-full-transparency-on-etfs-risks-and-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/innovation\/koris-international-provides-european-institutional-investors-with-full-transparency-on-etfs-risks-and-performance\/","title":{"rendered":"Koris International provides European institutional investors with  full transparency on ETFs\u2019 risks and performance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ETFs are without any doubt one of the most fascinating developments the financial industry has<br \/>\nwitnessed over the last twenty years. In substance, ETFs allow investors to gain access to the<br \/>\nperformance of an index at a reasonable cost without the hurdle of investing in the individual<br \/>\nconstituents. <\/p>\n<p>Notwithstanding, transaction costs, dividend treatment, tax assumptions, replication strategies,<br \/>\ndiscrepancies between exchange trading times and other intricacies inherent to managing an ETF<br \/>\nhave resulted in those funds requiring fairly complex financial, regulatory and operational setups<br \/>\nas well as large disparities in cost, performance and risk.<br \/>\nIn the absence of an applicable standard allowing to accurately gauging the qualities of each ETF,<strong> it<br \/>\nhas become extremely difficult for institutional investors to fully comprehend the latter and<br \/>\nsubsequently make thoughtful decisions. <\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>In a first stage, Koris International will publish on a monthly basis a detailed qualitative and quantitative<br \/>\nanalysis on the main ETFs tracking a widely used index.<br \/>\n<quote>This unbiased analysis does not intend to<br \/>\nprovide a ranking of these funds but instead to highlight their distinctive elements to investors so<br \/>\nthat they can make choices in full knowledge of the cause.<\/quote><\/p>\n<p>With the <em>\u2018ETF Inside Out\u2019<\/em> initiative, Koris International positions itself as the first European specialist<br \/>\nin asset allocation to offer independent analyses on the passive investment vehicles it uses to<br \/>\nimplement its strategies. <\/p>\n<p>Jean Ren\u00e9 Giraud, Koris\u2019 CEO and co-founder, considers that <em>\u201cthis initiative allows the institutional<br \/>\ninvestors community to benefit from the know-how of our team, moreover delivered in a completely<br \/>\nunbiased manner. Though experience has shown us that ETFs are relevant tools when it comes to<br \/>\nimplementing innovative investment strategies, apprehending, analyzing, selecting and monitoring<br \/>\nthose vehicles requires a deep expertise few organizations are likely to provide.\u201d <\/em> <\/p>\n<p>The first analysis on ETFs is devoted to the MSCI Emerging Markets Index, a quite complex index to<br \/>\nreplicate. The full study underlines the considerable disparity ETFs exhibit in terms of cost, risk and<br \/>\nperformances. It can be downloaded on our website at http:\/\/www.koris-intl.com\/etf-inside-out.<\/p>\n<p>The next studies will supplement these first analyses with specific focus on replication methods as well<br \/>\nas on the much talked about ETFs trading issue. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Koris International has recently launched a large scale transparency campaign on Exchange Traded<br \/>\nFunds\u2019 risks and performance. With over 10 years of experience in developing dynamic asset<br \/>\nallocation solutions, mainly implemented using index funds and ETFs, the company wishes to share its<br \/>\nexperience on those passive investment vehicles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":34124,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1471],"tags":[1655,1718,1658,1651,1437,1691,2234],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34126"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34126\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}