Net inflows into exchange-traded products hit a fresh high of $73.4 billion during the first quarter of 2013, pushing assets invested ETFs and ETPs to a new record of $2.09 trillion, according to data from ETFGI. Large gains in many global equity markets fueled enthusiasm among investors for exchange-traded products, including exchange-traded funds (ETFs) during [...]

Despite a bumpy beginning to the month, by the end of November, assets in exchange-traded funds and other exchange-traded products had hit a record $1.9 trillion, according to data provided by ETFGI. With at least some sources of market uncertainty removed, investors resumed investing in exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and products (ETPs) during November, contributing net [...]

Net inflows into exchange-traded funds and other exchange-traded products globally in October fell to $13.5 billion from $40 billion in September, as market uncertainty grew. The U.S. presidential election outcome; the ongoing anxiety about the eurozone’s fiscal crisis; the looming fiscal cliff in the United States; the likely impact of ‘superstorm’ Sandy on the infrastructure [...]

Like the Energizer Bunny, the ETF and ETP industries just keep going and going, attracting fresh assets and rolling out new products in all kinds of market environments, as this latest data from ETFGI demonstrates. The global exchange-traded fund (ETF) industry kept on growing during September, as it did throughout the first nine months of [...]

The world of exchange-traded funds continues to expand, attracting fresh assets and generating a compound annual growth rate of 26.5% in spite of the constant market fluctuations between “risk on” and “risk off” strategies on the part of investors, reported ETFGI, a London-based independent research and consulting firm covering the industry. As ETFGI discusses in [...]

A slowdown in ETF trading doesn’t do much to slow down inflows into the industry on a global basis, with investors showing an interest in commodity-related ETFs and ETPs. A sharp drop in investors’ interest in trading exchange-traded funds (ETFs) during August didn’t stop the global ETF industry from pulling in still more assets during [...]

The world of exchange-traded funds keeps grew large once more during August, even though the rate of growth was slightly smaller, reported ETFGI, a London-based independent research and consulting firm covering the industry, reveals in this report. In most regions of the world, ETF assets continued to climb during August, despite uncertainty surrounding the global [...]

The number of new exchange-traded products and the assets they contain jumped once again in July, despite the fact that average daily trading volumes declined. By the time July drew to a close, assets in exchange-traded funds (ETFs) worldwide had jumped another 2.4%, bringing the gains in ETF assets to 13.9% so far this year, [...]