Celebrating the winners in the ETF Express European awards 2025

We published the full report this week for the 2025 European ETF awards, an event which marked the 15th year of our ETF awards and offered a nod back to that first outing, in Sketch in central London, which many of you will remember.

The participants in this year’s winners’ report include: Amundi; DRW; Euronext; HANetf: Invesco; JP Morgan Asset Management; Russell Communications and State Street. Read their insights into the European ETF arena by following this link to the report now.

You will find the full list of winners at the end of the report and many congratulations to all those who came out top. We are currently compiling a directory of all our winners in the European awards over the past 15 years which we hope to publish soon. It’s interesting to see firms that have been mopped up by other firms or plain disappeared and who has won the most awards over the years.

Our next awards event is in Canada, hosted by the Toronto Stock Exchange on 29th May. Voting is open for ETF service providers and ETF issuers, drawn from data from Trackinsight, in Canada – vote now for your favourite firms by following this link.

We have an In My Opinion this week from Kim Gibb, CEO, Prescient Management Company, who reports that the South African ETF industry is growing nicely. Gibb writes that retail platforms like Easy ETFs and Easy Equities have played a big role in the growth of the passive ETF market in South Africa, a story that is increasingly familiar to us in Europe.

Gibbs says that the platforms cater to mass retail investors who can invest small amounts over long periods of time. Because of this demand, index strategies accounted for 87 per cent of net inflows in the South African ETF market over the course of 2024, she says.

"South Africa’s population is relatively young, a similar situation to many other African countries. Thus, the emphasis for wealth managers must be on the appetites and requirements of the younger investor. We are hoping that a new generation of younger investors who are also tech savvy, will enter the investing market. This will drive long term growth in ETF products."

Back in Europe, it might have been our 15th birthday, but Deutsche Börse was celebrating 25 years of European ETFs. On 11 April 2000, Deutsche Börse became the first stock exchange in Europe to introduce trading in ETFs, with two ETFs based on European stock indices of the STOXX index family. Happy Birthdays all round!

Beverly Chandler, Managing Editor

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