U.S. equities lead the charge in November as optimistic investors poured money into a country whose economy is running ahead of the world. With great looking job numbers and consumer spending on the rise, the U.S. Federal Reserve has strongly hinted that a rate hike will come before the end of the year. The rest of the world? Not so much. It's a two-speed global economy and that is affecting where ETF investors are putting their money.
These days, investors want their ETFs to do a lot more than they used to. In a space dominated by cheap and liquid index-tracking funds, products that offer investors an additional active or factor-based twist are drawing record inflows.
In the first ten months of 2015, record levels of net new assets have been gathered by active ETFs and ETPs that are listed globally, says ETFGI. There were net inflows of US$8.9 billion, and that marked a 23% increase over the prior record set in 2013. Currently, the active ETF industry consists of 232 […]
Two years ago, the Employees Retirement System of Texas shed its US$1.4 position in investment grade corporate bonds -- and they did it by trading it all in for ETFs.
In advance of the Climate Change Summit, Canada has become a little bit greener - at least on Bay Street. Three new S&P DJI indices were recently launched based on constituents of the S&P/TSX 60 Index.
Investors have poured record amounts of money into bond ETFs as they navigate a challenging economic and interest rate environment. This month's data show no signs that the trend is slowing.
Returns from junk bond ETFs have been much lower than the underlying indexes they trade. And they tend to perform worse than the average actively managed mutual fund. But investors still love them—and it's not about the cost, it's about the fit.
ETFs hit new milestones. Yet some signs last week show things could be heating up as some market participants raise alarm bells over the size and impact of ETFs on the broader market.
ETFs hit a few important new milestones this year. They turned 25 (the first ETF was born in Toronto in 1989), their assets surpassed those of hedge funds (US$2.97 trillion) and, as of June, more ETF shares had traded hands in one year than the entire U.S. GDP.
You might think investors reacted to August's volatility by pulling out equity ETFs - but that wasn't the case. According to National Bank Financial, September ETF flows hit another record, with equities leading the way.