The Industry Highlights of BlackRock ETP Landscape provides commentary on the global Exchange Traded Product (ETP) industry as of December 2015.
Global ETPs set a new flows record in 2015, posting another year of double digit organic growth
- Global ETP flows of $350.9bn represented 13% organic growth and exceeded last year's record of $330.6bn thanks to new highs for both non-U.S. developed markets equity and fixed income
- Non-U.S. developed markets equity flows more than doubled to $200.1bn, largely concentrated in Europe, Japan and EAFE exposures, which all set new records driven by attractive relative valuations
- Fixed income flows of $93.5bn broke the annual record set in 2014, paced by a strong secular adoption trend and boosted by renewed appetite for safer investments during the heighted volatility from August through October
- Currency-hedged equity gathered $52.4bn and smart beta equity added $29.3bn, together representing a third of all equity flows versus 25% last year
Sources: BlackRock, Bloomberg
