ETFs Causing Market To Spike At The End Of The Day

ETFs

As ValueWalk reported in the middle of last month, thanks to investors’ rush to buy into the market at the end of last year, the value of assets parked in ETF and ETP vehicles reached a new high of $3.7 trillion at the end of January, up from $3.55 trillion at the end of December after inflows of $62 billion for the month.

These figures come from ETFGI’s January 2017 global ETF and ETP industry insights report, which tracks the global ETF industry. The largest exchange traded instrument market is in the United States with $2.64 trillion of assets devoted to such strategies within the region. At the end of January, the Global ETF/ETP industry had 6,670 ETFs/ETPs,...