Marching to European ETFs

Vin Bhattacharjee is something of a veteran in a still nascent ETF industry. Previously head of intermediary sales in Europe for Barclays Global Investors, he was instrumental in bringing the first wave of iShares products to Europe over ten years ago. “It really was a pioneering exercise; at that point the challenges were not the same as those we face today. Back then we were asking questions like, ‘is anyone going to buy these, is this product going to have any traction in the European space?’ Initially at least, it felt very much like an uphill struggle. Obviously it was a huge succ...