The ETF industry may continue to experience continued high growth if ETFs rise in usage among retirement plans, retail financial advisor channels, institutional investors, actively managed structures and European ETF markets.
BersteinResearch also discovered that ETF assets under management accrued has helped curb the growth of Index mutual funds, not at the expense of mutual funds. Overall, ETFs has increased demand for packaged products.
Furthermore, institutional investors make up the lion share of ETF demand, and about one-third of volumes come out of equity funds, which suggests that retail investors are more interested in packaged products than individual stocks.
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Max Chen contributed to this article.