ETPs: Core portfolio building blocks, tactical tools

At Morningstar’s second annual Investment Conference, held in London on 10-11 May, Morningstar’s global director of Exchange Traded Products and Alternatives Research, Scott Burns, gave investors insight into how Morningstar’s global ETF research team assesses the suitability of exchange-traded products (ETPs). ETPs’ low costs, liquidity, and generally stable, transparent portfolios have made them an increasingly popular choice for a wide variety of investors, who have implemented them in any number of different ways within their own portfolios and on behalf of their clients. At the hi...