‘ETFs as Asset Class’ Is Among the Top 2019 Trends in Markets
- Funds are a key ‘tool for institutional portfolios’: Greenwich
- Investors should treat ETFs differently from individual stocks
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Wall Street’s going to have to adjust its business to account for a not-so-new but fast growing asset class: exchange-traded funds.
Treating ETFs as a class of assets independent from stocks is among the nine biggest market structure trends for 2019, according to a report from Greenwich Associates Wednesday. It’s testament to just how popular these tradable portfolios have become -- and how increasingly important they are to global financial markets.