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Institutional Asset Manager: "Investors consider the provision of index transparency to be logical and indispensable, according to a survey by EDHEC-Risk Institute. An overwhelming majority (85.2 per cent) of the 109 respondents from across Europe, including Europe’s largest pension and reserve funds, insurance and provident institutions and their asset management subsidiaries identify transparency as the best mitigator of conflicts of interest (...)."

Institutional Asset Manager 18/03/2014

"(...) Investors consider the provision of index transparency to be logical and indispensable, according to a survey by EDHEC-Risk Institute. An overwhelming majority (85.2 per cent) of the 109 respondents from across Europe, including Europe’s largest pension and reserve funds, insurance and provident institutions and their asset management subsidiaries identify transparency as the best mitigator of conflicts of interest and only 12 per cent view good index governance as sufficient to deal with these conflicts. Transparency is currently inadequate and seen to be so by investors. Only around a third of respondents are very (4.6 per cent) or somewhat satisfied (30.3 per cent) with the current level of transparency in the indexing industry. (...)"