Asset Management
Investors Pumped More Money Into Exchange Trade Funds, Products In March
The total assets under management in ETFs and products dropped last month but investors actually put more money to work in these vehicles, figures show.
Investors put $20.44 billion into exchange traded funds and
products in March, even while markets were hit hard by the
COVID-19 pandemic, new figures show.
Year-to-date inflows stood at $119.13 billion at the end of
March, beating the $99 billion figure for the same period a year
before.
However, the actual assets invested in the global ETP/ETP sector
fell by 11.1 per cent from the figure at the end of March,
standing at $5.37 trillion, according to ETFGI, an organisation tracking
the sector.
ETFs are typically open-ended, index-based funds, with active
ETFs accounting for 1.1 per cent of the market share. ETPs, on
the other hand, are similar to ETFs in the way that they trade
and settle, but do not use an open-end fund structure.
