Twenty-sixteen is likely to go down as another record year for passive investments. According to Morningstar, investors plowed $429 billion into ETFs and other index funds in the first 11 months of the year, while yanking some $285 billion from traditional actively managed mutual funds. ETFs probably garnered about half of cash tsunami that flowed…
ETF investors yanked more money from funds invested in the Euro zone than they did from the United Kingdom in the third quarter of this year. Overall, Euro-area assets saw net outflows[1] of about $5 billion, or 4.9% of their net assets at the start of Q3. Some individual countries in the Euro saw much…
Emerging Market ETFs—both equities and fixed income—were the big winners in the battle for assets in August. Among equity funds, developed markets captured 73% of all net flows[1], while emerging markets captured 27%. That’s fewer absolute dollars being allocated to emerging markets, but that 27% is still nearly triple the category’s 9.7% slice of the…