Structured Products Asia: Short-term opportunities in the spotlight

Opinion on exchange-traded funds was split at Structured Products Asia, though delegates heard about opportunistic profits arising from Europe’s debt crisis and esoteric commodity plays amid the challenges of counterparty risk and low interest rates. Richard Jory reports from a region that remains wedded to the short term

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Exchange-traded funds (ETFs) are the only way to bring investors in Asia back into equities. That was the view of Edward Rogers, chief executive and chief investment officer at Rogers Investment Advisers in Tokyo, speaking on the final panel at the eighth annual Structured Products Asia conference at the Renaissance Harbour View Hotel in Hong Kong on September 14.

While there was support for his view of the role that ETFs could play in reviving interest in equities among Asian investors, some

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