Nevertheless, fund industry experts believe the deceleration is inevitable, arguing that a slowdown shows that providers have meet the trader’s needs for cheap and efficient investment tools.
“The ETF market has reached a maturation point,” strategist Victor Lin at Credit Suisse Group AG, said in the article.
Others, though, think that the ETF industry can continue to expand through actively managed, bond and “alternative” stock offerings.
“We think of this as a multichapter novel,” Jacques Perold, president of Fidelity Investments’ Fidelity Management & Research, said in the article. “The first chapter is done. We think the next is going to be active.”
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Max Chen contributed to this article.