Roundtable – Celebrating 20 years of the ETF

This has been an unusually exciting month for Exchange Traded Funds in the country. Not only because of the confusion created by Treasury’s stance in inward listed ETFS and regulation 28, but because on November 27th, the industry marked exactly 20 years since the first ever ETF was listed on the Johannesburg Securities exchange. The rise in popularity of exchange traded funds, etfs, has seen over R120bn flow into these products in this the 20th year since the first was brought to market by provider Satrix. Michael Avery looks back on the last 20 years with the man who brought the first ETF to market Mike Brown, Managing Director and Financial Advisor of etfSA; Helena Conradie, CEO of Satrix; & Len Jordaan, Director, Head of South Africa and sub-Sahara Africa Sales at S&P Dow Jones Indices, and they talk about the rise and future of ETFs.