ETF lending - a snapshot of a growing trend

ETF lending could cover your management fees and generate improved returns. Edward Murray investigates how investors should go about this. The number of exchange traded funds (ETFs) available is rising quickly and along with it the variety of assets, indices and markets that they track. In turn these funds are being increasingly put to work by investors and the lending market, even in the current market, is fast developing on the back of such activity. But why should investors lend an ETF, what sort of returns can they make and how difficult is it for them to do this? The bottom line i...