At the recent Thomson Reuters Lipper European Alpha Expert Forum, we asked a panel of experts about the drivers of growth and innovation in the passive industry. Gregg Guerin, Senior Product Specialist at First Trust Global Portfolios, Hector McNeil, Co-CEO at HANetf and Jason Xavier, Head of EMEA Capital Markets at Franklin Templeton, examine the rules based approaches which are providing competition to traditional active funds. Topics – Run time: What is driving investors towards factor indices? Advantages of owning the methodology of your index Active manager entering the ETF space MiFID II and the demand for ETFs Liquid alternative

As the passive investment industry is growing so is the innovation in the space. This video shows highlights from the ‘Passive Ascendency; the Rise of Rules’ panel at the recent Thomson Reuters Lipper European Alpha Expert Forum. Gregg Guerin, Senior Product Specialist at First Trust Global Portfolios, Hector McNeil, Co-CEO at HANetf and Jason Xavier, Head of EMEA Capital Markets at Franklin Templeton, evaluate the outlook for passive vehicles and examine how rules-based and the smart beta evolution is supporting competition to traditional active funds. The panel is moderated by Detlef Glow, Head of Lipper EMEA Research at Thomson Reuters.