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Advertising Feature: Europe cashes in on etf popularity.
Financial Times Mandate, December, 2007
Exchange-traded funds (ETFs) might have started as a mere speck on investors' horizons when the first 3 products appeared in the US in 1993 valued at $0.81bn, but their growth worldwide over 14 years sees assets under management standing in excess of $746bn.
While the US remains the premier market with both the largest number of products and assets under management, 533 ETFs and $530bn, respectively, Europe has been catching up fast. It now boasts more than 390 ETFs worth about $126bn and is the fastest growing region for ETF usage, now outpacing the US. This growth is viewed as nothing less than remarkable since when the London Stock Exchange and Deutsche Borse released the first 6 ETF products in 2000, the rest of the global business was already valued at...
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