2024, the year of asset inflows and digital assets

Our last newsletter for 2024 is a packed one, a bit like this year which has proved to be eventful for our industry. Asset inflows into ETFs have hit all records with November proving to be a record month, with a record USD204.6 billion added, centred around US equities, according to BlackRock’s figures.

The firm writes that 2024 is on track to be a record year for global ETP flows, with USD1.6 trillion added at the time of writing, surpassing the record USD1.3 trillion of inflows in 2021. 2024 is on track to be a record year for EMEA-listed ETP flows as well, with USD235.2 billion added YTD.

The launch of spot bitcoin ETFs in the US has undoubtedly helped inflows and week after week we have been reporting Trackinsight top 10 ETFs, largely dominated by cryptocurrencies.

Christmas has come early as we bring you our new monthly digital asset column, a collaboration between our data partners, Trackinsight, CoinDesk, winners of Best Cryptocurrency Index Provider in this year’s US awards, and us, written by CoinDesk’s Joshua de Vos. The monthly column, focused on crypto market ETF/ETP flows, will keep you up to date in this, the most dynamic of industries.

There was lots of news to share this week Australia’s Computershare reporting on their survey of appetite for ETFs in Australia, and an interview with BBH’s Killian Lonergan on the growth of active ETFs across Europe. Lonergan says that the regulatory landscape for ETFs across Europe is an ever changing landscape, quoting the CBI which recently stated that they are keen to ‘remove barriers of entry, and to put the right structures in place’ to support ETFs and help investors reach their investment goals, including a principles-based approach to different models to address portfolio transparency for active ETFs, and an intention to clarify its position on the naming convention of hybrid (or multi-share class) fund structures.

This is our last newsletter for this amazing year. We have thoroughly enjoyed meeting readers at The Exchange conference in Miami in February; our European awards in March; our Canadian awards in June; IMPower’s Fund Forum in Monte Carlo in June and in New York in October. Many congratulations to all our award winners over the year and many thanks for all our readers for their great support.

Beverly Chandler, Managing Editor

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