Amundi poaches BlackRock veteran to lead ETFs and indexing

Amundi has appointed Ross Finlayson as head of markets and product strategy for the ETF and indexing business. He is based in London.

According to Morningstar data Amundi sat in third place when it comes to European ETF market share in 2024, taking 12.4%. BlackRock’s iShares led the way with 42.2%.

Finlayson has spent 12 of his more than 15-year career at BlackRock, where he was most recently a managing director and head of iShares EMEA equity product strategy and markets coverage.

Prior to this, Finlayson was a trader at Avalon Capital markets and a pan-European equity trader at Nomura International. He began his career as an equity trader at Lehman Brothers in 2008.

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