This year's exchange-traded funds' inflows are marked by at least one obvious theme: flight to safe-haven assets. That explains the top asset-gathering ETF year-to-date is the SPDR Gold Trust (ETF) (NYSE: GLD) and why six of the top 10 asset-gathering ETFs are fixed income funds.
Among equity-based ETFs, low volatility funds have been prolific gatherers of new assets and that includes the iShares MSCI USA Minimum Volatility ETF (iShares Trust (NYSE: USMV)). Only GLD has added more new assets this year than the $2.63 billion hauled in by USMV.
Minimum Volatility ETF
A money manager cited in a Bloomberg article on USMV said investors' doubts in the recent rally in equities has them favoring lower volatility fare, such as utilities, consumer ...
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