Buy-side trading skills make bond ETFs and mutual funds safer for investors

The levels of volatility in markets are making it harder to price the underlying instruments in any fund. The buy-side trading desk is fundamental to supporting price formation and liquidity access. Optimally, it will allow the investor to sell/redeem a fund with minimal dislocation from the underlying instruments. Trader TV spoke to Deborah Fuhr, managing partner and co-founder of analyst firm ETFGI, about the effect that the liquidity crisis is having upon active and passive funds.