SIX Swiss Exchange Hosts Women In ETFs

On 28 October 2016, SIX Swiss Exchange acted as a host for the third event of Women in ETFs in Switzerland. The event focused on emerging markets. After years of underperformance assets in these markets have finally stabilized in 2016. Focus of the event was the deeper analysis of whether this will turn out to be a false dawn or whether the stabilization will turn into an out-performance. Close to 40 participants attended the Women in ETFs breakfast event.

Women in ETFs was founded in January 2014. Today, the organization counts already over 2'000 members globally (incl. 10% men) organized in three regions (Americas, EMEA and Asia Pacific) and implemented in dozens of cities across the globe. Its objective is to build a global network of women in the ETF industry with the goal to further the careers of women today by leveraging their collective skills and ambitions.

The event at the Swiss stock exchange on the topic of emerging markets featured a presentation by Christa Janjic-Marti (senior economist at Wellershoff & Partners) on how emerging economies differ and how their development is influenced by commodity exports respectively commodity manufacturing. The analysis of the GDP growth of emerging compared to developed markets showed that the growth alpha is shrinking since the financial crisis especially when looking at commodity exporting countries. This year affected economies have started to recover as commodity prices stabilized but this recovery is on the back of better growth in China, Brazil and Russia.

This macroeconomic analysis was followed by a presentation by Carmen Gonzalez-Catalayud (senior product specialist beta strategies, HSBC Global Asset Management) on the attractiveness of emerging market equities and bonds to western-based investors. While the majority of assets in emerging markets are still invested via classical mutual funds already 9% are invested via ETFs with growing tendency. Most investors choose to get global or regional exposure in emerging economies and single country exposures account for exceptions. China and India represent the exception to this rule.

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