Exchange-traded funds are attracting cash at a record-breaking trillion-dollar pace despite persistent inflation, war in the Middle East and bouts of market volatility \u2013 a testament to American households\u2019 enduring buy-and-hold conviction.<\/p>\n
US-listed ETFs have absorbed about $1 trillion this year, reaching the milestone before June is over. That\u2019s after taking all of 2024 and 10 months last year to do the same.<\/p>\n
Flows are now on pace to \u201ceasily break\u201d last year\u2019s record haul of $1.5 trillion, which itself had topped the 2024 peak of $1.1 trillion, according to Bloomberg Intelligence. Year to date, the flows were led by Vanguard\u2019s S&P 500 fund (VOO), which has raked in roughly $110 billion already.<\/p>\n
ETFs are a popular investment vehicle because they are easier to trade compared to mutual funds, they are relatively low-cost, and there\u2019s an ETF for almost everything in the market.<\/p>\n
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\u201cEvery year, more investors are appreciating the benefits of the ETF wrapper,\u201d said Roxanna Islam, head of sector and industry research at TMX VettaFi. \u201cAnd it\u2019s not just for existing strategies, but there\u2019s increasingly newer and innovative strategies that are being placed into the ETF wrapper that are attracting attention.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Equity-focused funds constitute the majority of the influx, garnering more than $660 billion year to date. Besides VOO \u2013 which just weeks ago became the first ETF to cross $1 trillion in assets \u2013 State Street\u2019s SPYM, a cheaper version of its mega SPY fund, has accumulated roughly $41 billion in flows year to date, followed by Vanguard\u2019s total stock market vehicle (VTI), with $31 billion, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.<\/p>\n
Most notably, allocations to US-centred equity ETFs have accelerated recently \u2013 even as the war with Iran dragged on, according to BI. It suggests that investors see \u201cAmerican markets as the primary destination for risk capital,\u201d said BI\u2019s Athanasios Psarofagis.<\/p>\n
Since last week, however, there have been some outflows from US ETFs, bringing the year-to-date influx to $987 billion. Still, it\u2019s notable that the cohort has brought in this haul, with six months left to the year.<\/p>\n
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The ETF industry isn\u2019t set to break just one record: it\u2019s also on track to see a record number of new funds. More than 600 products have started trading this year, the fastest pace ever, according to BI.<\/p>\n
In this mix, one of the most eye-catching flow-gatherers has been a fund by Roundhill that offers exposure to global memory-chip companies and trades under the ticker DRAM. It became the fastest-growing fund, when measured by flows, gathering more than $15 billion since its April launch. Its success has also spawned a number of copy-cat products.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t want to say it\u2019s a mania, but it\u2019s the continued momentum of ETFs being a preferred vehicle and an extension of how they\u2019re used to capitalize on areas of the market that maybe weren\u2019t as accessible,\u201d said Christian Magoon, founder and CEO of Amplify ETFs.<\/p>\n
\u00a9 2026 Bloomberg<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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