The etf industry, big numbers are par for the course. Our analyst Eric Balchunas is used to big numbers. Eric this is no exception. This is the end of the year, the last show, so normally go over weekly. You today numbers are big. 324 billion. That is the second biggest year of etf flows ever. 7 organic growth. Lets look at the top leaderboard of the year. Bti broad market. 31 , that is the best return for the s p since 1997, even though it did not feel like that. Usmv was a shocker. Interesting for smart data. By one basisee point, enough to win this internal the battle. That is the hangover from 2018 and rates falling. Take a look at the Asset Classes. January to october, equities not that big. 40 of their flows in the past two months. Fixed income, look at that drop off. Gold as well. Look at their growth this year. A little below average but 18 look at their growth this year. Fixed, way above last year. Lets look at the leaderboard in terms of the issuers who won and lost. For the
Once again, delaying a decision until october. Love them or hate them, etfs are here to stay and flows often signal Broader Market trends. Eric balchunas checks it out. And eric, its very much a picture of derisking . Eric yes. It is. Scarlet, thank you. Prices are down. It has been a choppy market. A lot of volatility in the last couple of weeks but the flows are really hanging tough for u. S. Equities and fixed incomes. Two aberrations we are seeing, and a lot of money going into gold. On the other side, a lot of money leaving emerging markets. Look at the bloodbath in emerging markets. That is only over one week. Over the past couple of months, they have seen a couple of billion dollars come out quickly. What really struck me about this chart is img is on here. These are the cheap ones that retail uses. This is beyond the trading crowd into retail. Lets look at imgs flows since it came out. Just to get an idea of how weird it is that img it has never seen outflows in eight years. Wh
Whether you embrace or reject etfs, they are here to stay. The flows signal Broader Market trends. Lets check in with Eric Balchunas. A snapshot of the flows and the theme is risky assets like the stocks. Eric thank you, scarlet. Im feeling like a broken record. Every week, i am saying people are excited about the fed being accommodative. It felt like about two months. Another week of the same thing. 15 billion into etfs. We have spy, the cuse. You also have ibv and some vanguard funds. Both major player types are buying in. I thought, this seems to have started in the beginning of june when the fed reassured markets. Lets capture june and july. The complexion of the flows is changing and this chart shows it is. June and july, etfs took in 85 billion. That is more than the rest of the year combined. That is a lot of money coming in. U. S. Equity etfs are taking in three times more than they did at the beginning part of the year. More than fixed income. They are now the leaders, which i
Global leader. Of course, there is an etf for that. Whether you embrace or reject etfs, they are here to stay. The flows signal Broader Market trends. Lets check in with Eric Balchunas for a snapshot of the flows and the theme is risky assets like the stocks. Eric thank you, scarlet. Im starting to feel like a broken record. Every week, i am saying people are excited about the fed being accommodative. It felt like about two months. Another week of the same thing. 15 billion into etfs. That is a bomb. We have spy, the qqqs. You also have ibb and some vanguard funds. Both major player types are buying in. I thought, this seems to have started in the beginning of june when the fed reassured markets. Lets capture june and july. Compare it to the rest of the year. The complexion of the flows is changing and this chart shows it is. Look at the fact that june and july, etfs took in 85 billion. That is more than the rest of the year combined. That is a lot of money coming in. Also u. S. Equity
Global leader. Of course, there is an etf for that. Whether you embrace or reject etf, they are here to stay. The flows signal Broader Market trends. Lets check in with Eric Balchunas. A snapshot of the flows and the theme is risky assets like the stocks. Eric thank you, scarlet. Im starting to feel like a broken record. Every week, i am saying people are excited about the fed being accommodative. It felt like about two months. Another week of the same thing. 15 billion into etfs. That is the bomb. We have spy, the cuse. You also have ibb and some vanguard funds. Both major player types are buying in. I thought, this seems to have started in the beginning of june when the fed reassured markets. Lets capture june and july. The complexion of the flows is changing and this chart shows it is. June and july, etfs took in 85 billion. That is more than the rest of the year combined. That is a lot of money coming in. U. S. Equity etfs are taking in three times more than they did at the beginni