Shiwen Yap | Israeli equity ETFs overdue on Asian bourses: Steven Schoenfeld, BlueStar Indexes
May 5, 2018 — Steven Schoenfeld, the chief investment officer of BlueStar Indexes, is bullish on the growth prospects that the privatisation of the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE), predicting greater connectivity between the Israeli and Asian capital markets such as Singapore, with an Israeli equity ETF on Singapore’s bourse being long overdue.
The privatization of TASE is part of broader capital market reforms in Israel, whose financial system has been undergoing rapid reform-driven change, with accelerated financial deepening seeing a shift from banks to institutional investors and households.
These developments raise new challenges for Israel’s financial regulators and policymakers.