“People are getting back into the stock market,” Olly Ludwig of Index Universe said in the report. “Equities are clearly coming back into favor.”
Of the 1,400 ETFs currently trading, the SPDR S&P 500 (NYSEArca: SPY) was the clear winner in 2012. The fund gained $15.77 billion in assets, or about 8% of the total 2012 inflows. [10 ETF Trends for 2013]
Tisha Guerrero contributed to this article.
Full disclosure: Tom Lydon’s clients own SPY.