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Investors Say These Are the Top ETF Providers and Benchmarks

Managing Market Volatility Chapter 4 Global assets held by ETFs pierced the $7 trillion barrier in September 2020, according to the consultancy and research firm ETFGI. 1 The year proved to be another banner one for the funds despite the Covid-19 pandemic – and in part due to aggressive stimulus packages pushed forward by policymakers around the world to dampen the effects the virus had on economies. Among U.S.-listed ETFs alone, 2020 inflows shot up 55% from the $326.3 billion recorded in 2019, according to ETF.com. 2 “Post-March and April [2020], we put money into ETFs because we wanted to focus on a specific index or ETF. We believed that we would see a beta rally as the market in general came back up, so we were able to participate. We put money into a few active, high-conviction managers that we thought would bounce back, but a lot of the money that we invested into equities went to ETFs,” said the CIO of a foundation interviewed as part of a new global survey,

How to Use ETFs? Let Us Count the Ways

Managing Market Volatility Chapter 3 Almost from the very moment that ETFs arrived on the scene, they have been lauded for the ease and speed with which they can be used, as well as for their exceptional flexibility. The ETF growth story over the years has been fueled in large part by the consistent emergence of new ways to use them. According to a new global survey of 766 institutional investment decision makers at insurers, endowments, family offices, foundations, pensions, and asset management firms, that remains the case. The survey, Managing Market Volatility in 2021: What institutional investors did in 2020 – and what they learned, was conducted by Institutional Investor in Q3 2020, meaning participants had had ample time to consider how they used ETFs during the heightened volatility that followed quickly on the heels of Covid-19 as it swept the globe. 

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