BlackRock's Nestor on Shift From Futures to ETFs

BlackRock's Nestor on Shift From Futures to ETFs

Rob Nestor, head of iShares U.S. smart beta at BlackRock, said earlier this year that the derivatives market is a source of growth for the ETF industry. BlackRock estimates that pension funds and other institutional investors replaced $11.7 billion of their futures holdings with ETFs in 2016, a 17 percent jump over the year before. This is a daily ETF podcast from Bloomberg’s Catherine Cowdery.