text: Koen Van de Maele, global head of investment solutions at Candriam, has said external index providers still remain the best choice when it comes to benchmarking ETF products, rather than self-indexing, despite the firm designing its own benchmark methodology.
  Speaking to Investment Week, Van de Maele highlighted a number of issues with self-indexing, including the strict regulations that come with it. Over the past year, there has been an increasing trend...
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explanation: The text extract is a news article or interview snippet discussing the views of Koen Van de Maele, the global head of investment solutions at Candriam, on benchmarking ETF products. It mentions the preference for external index providers over self-indexing and highlights regulatory issues with self-indexing. The extract does not contain any math question or answer.
distilabel_metadata.content: Evaluate the user given text extract and determine if it contains a math question and optionally and answer to this question.
  
  Output rules:
  
  1. Briefly describe the document and mention if it contains a question or a question and answer.
  2. Finalize the output with: Label: no-question,question,question-and-answer,multiple-question,multiple-question-and-answer
distilabel_metadata.role: system
distilabel_metadata.content: Koen Van de Maele, global head of investment solutions at Candriam, has said external index providers still remain the best choice when it comes to benchmarking ETF products, rather than self-indexing, despite the firm designing its own benchmark methodology.
  Speaking to Investment Week, Van de Maele highlighted a number of issues with self-indexing, including the strict regulations that come with it. Over the past year, there has been an increasing trend...
  Working in London and Geneva
  Staunch value investor
  Effective 24 September
  Latest edition of the print magazine online
  Four-part Big Question special
distilabel_metadata.role: user
distilabel_metadata.raw_output_q_a_detector_0: The text extract is a news article or interview snippet discussing the views of Koen Van de Maele, the global head of investment solutions at Candriam, on benchmarking ETF products. It mentions the preference for external index providers over self-indexing and highlights regulatory issues with self-indexing. The extract does not contain any math question or answer.
  
  Label: no-question