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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 ye ....
Services and luxury retail. Love them or hate them, etfs are here to stay, and etf nerds get a read on the Broader Market trends. Eric balchunas is very comfortable being known as bloombergs head etf nerd. Eric every week we talk about flows going into etfs. And we talk about flows into active. If you add them together you get a negative number, 150 to 180 billion has flown out of the whole enchilada this year. Thats what this shows, the cumulative flows into u. S. Stock funds have been drifting down, and this year it has been 150 billion. That seems counterintuitive given the market is going up. People are wondering, are investors bailing on the stock market . The answer is no, heres why, lets look at the assets. This is the law of large numbers. 10 trillion are in ets, index funds that mutually invest in stocks. The market is up 25 thats a 2. 5 trillion asset gain. Thats a good year. Heres the outflow. 150 billion is put into sc ....
Mixed bag. The dax is down almost 0. 5 . The carmakers dragging on the dax. The ftse 100 is a different story, up 0. 3 . Some individual Companies Making gains. The british pounds giving back more of the gains of the week, 1. 3075. Pearson up after giving up the Penguin Random house it owns. Lets get to more with luke kawa, Bloomberg Cross asset reporter. It seems like this market is more and more moving on individual Company Names and less on a trade resolution or British Election resolution. Luke definitely. Weve taken a step back from the macro. That we are not really looking ahead to anything. We are just kind of in stall right now, waiting for the rest of the year to play out. Yesterday we tied for the ....