Investors have piled over $100bn into bond ETFs so far this year, taking the total assets under management (AUM) held in these vehicles to their highest ever level.
The amount held in fixed income ETFs this year to end of September has reached $612bn, marking a 24% rise from the $495bn invested in these products at the end of last year, according to BlackRock. Fixed income ETFs now make up just under a fifth of total ETF assets globally, which stood at $3.4bn in September, up from $3bn at the end of 2015. What can we learn from ETF surge? This year has also seen the fastest growth in fixed income ETFs since 2012, BlackRock's latest ETP Landscape report revealed, with both US and European markets tripling in size over the last six years. ...
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