The rise of passive investment management in recent years has been staggering. According to JPMorgan, passive funds now account for 35% of all equity, bond and hybrid funds in the US, 17% in Europe and 22% in emerging markets.
However, when US-listed exchange-traded funds posted net monthly outflows for a third month in a row in June – the first time that this has happened since 2008 – many started to hear alarm bells. If the sector posts net outflows for July, this would be the first time there had been four months of outflows since the late 1990s.
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