Friday, 23 January 2015

ETFs: The $2 trillion industry everyone is talking about

For the fifth year in a row, I am covering the ETF.com (formerly IndexUniverse) Inside ETF Conference in Hollywood, Florida, on Monday and Tuesday.
I've reported for years about the advantages of exchange-traded funds (ETFs): transparency, low cost, tax efficiency, intraday trading and the ability to easily buy into international stocks and bonds, as well as commodities.
The U.S.-based ETF industry passed a major milestone in 2014: $2 trillion in assets, up 18 percent from 2013.
That is quite a feat. In 2002, when I first mentioned ETFs, there was a mere $100 billion under management. By 2006 it had gone to $400 billion. By 2009 it had doubled, to $800 billion.
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