ETFGI, a leading independent research and consultancy firm on trends in the global ETF\/ETP ecosystem, reported today that assets invested in ETFs\/ETPs listed globally broke through the US$4 trillion milestone at the end of April 2017, according to preliminary data from ETFGI\u2019s April 2017 global ETF and ETP industry insights report.<\/p>\n
The Global ETF\/ETP industry had 6,835 ETFs\/ETPs, with 12,892 listings, assets of US$4.002 trillion, from 313 providers listed on 68 exchanges in 56 countries at the end of April 2017.<\/p>\n
\u201cInvestors continued to favour equities over fixed income and commodities as equity markets performed positively in April. The S&P 500 was up 1%, international equity markets outside the US and emerging markets were both up 2% in April. Investors were captivated by a closely-fought first round of the French elections during April,\u201d<\/em> according to Deborah Fuhr, managing partner and a founder of ETFGI. <\/p>\n ETFs and ETPs listed globally gathered record net inflows of US$37.94 Bn in April marking the 39th consecutive month of net inflows. Year to date, a record US$235.21 Bn in net new assets have been gathered. At this point last year there were net inflows of US$81.01 Bn.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n In April, equity ETFs\/ETPs gathered the largest net inflows with US$27.75 Bn, followed by fixed income ETFs\/ETPs with US$10.78 Bn, while commodity ETFs\/ETPs experienced net outflows of US$1.28 Bn.<\/p>\n YTD through end of April 2017, ETFs\/ETPs have seen net inflows of US$235.21 Bn. Equity ETFs\/ETPs gathered the largest net inflows YTD with US$167.42 Bn, followed by fixed income ETFs\/ETPs with US$49.97 Bn, and commodity ETFs\/ETPs with US$7.59 Bn.<\/p>\n iShares gathered the largest net ETF\/ETP inflows in April with US$23.94 Bn, followed by Vanguard with US$10.29 Bn and Schwab ETFs with US$2.53 Bn net inflows. <\/p>\n YTD, iShares gathered the largest net ETF\/ETP inflows with US$89.30 Bn, followed by Vanguard with US$53.10 Bn and Nomura AM with US$10.23 Bn net inflows.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Global ETF\/ETP industry had 6,835 ETFs\/ETPs, with 12,892 listings, assets of US$4.002 trillion, from 313 providers listed on 68 exchanges in 56 countries at the end of April 2017, according to preliminary data from ETFGI\u2019s April 2017 report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":62934,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1470],"tags":[1655,1718,1651,2094,2007,2234,1720],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62936"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}