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ETF “Technology” Gaining Ground: What it means for Your Portfolio
May 15, 2014 at 19:00 PM EDT
In my recent blog post on why investors should consider ETFs for the core of their portfolio, I highlighted the trend of institutional investors using ETFs in the core. A recent report from Greenwich Associates reinforces this fact. Greenwich interviewed over 200 institutional investors, including pensions, foundations, endowments, insurance companies, asset managers and large investment advisors about their ETF usage. What did they find? The share of U.S. institutions using ETFs has increased in each of the past five years and is expected to rise in the coming year. Nearly half of institutional ETF users now allocate more than 10% of their total assets to ETFs. Institutions reporting average holding periods of two years or longer jumped to 49% in 2014, versus 36% in 2013. A growing number of institutions, approximately 80%, are using ETFs to obtain core portfolio exposures. Institutions dabble in ETFs for specific strategies, and then broaden their usage […] Click here to read the original article on ETFdb.com. Related Posts: No Related Posts
In my recent blog post on why investors should consider ETFs for the core of their portfolio, I highlighted the trend of institutional investors using ETFs in the core. A recent report from Greenwich Associates reinforces this fact. Greenwich interviewed over 200 institutional investors, including pensions, foundations, endowments, insurance companies, asset managers and large investment advisors about their ETF usage. What did they find? The share of U.S. institutions using ETFs has increased in each of the past five years and is expected to rise in the coming year. Nearly half of institutional ETF users now allocate more than 10% of their total assets to ETFs. Institutions reporting average holding periods of two years or longer jumped to 49% in 2014, versus 36% in 2013. A growing number of institutions, approximately 80%, are using ETFs to obtain core portfolio exposures. Institutions dabble in ETFs for specific strategies, and then broaden their usage […]
