The rise and rise in popularity of Aussie ETFs

Despite market tumult, the ETF industry has shown remarkable resilience during the first five months of the year. Compared to last year, which closed at $247 billion, the ETF industry is still in positive year-to-date territory.

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The end of April marked the tenth consecutive month of $3 billion-plus flows into Australian-based ETFs, with many investors slowly rotating out of U.S. stocks and allocating heavily to international equity ETFs (around $2.1 billion), followed by Australian equity ETFs (as much as $1.7 billion).

Chris Weston, Chief Researcher at Pepperstone, joined HotCopper’s Expert Exchange series to slice and dice this for investors. He says ETFs are a huge part of the ecosystem, and that leveraged ETFs are growing in popularity.

On top of that, he suggests they’re an easy way to achieve benchmark returns.

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