The first major exchange-traded fund, the SPDR S&P 500 Fund (ticker: SPY), was launched in 1993. Today it has $95.4 billion in net assets, making it the single largest of the 1,377 U.S. ETFs tracked by Morningstar. The fund alone is almost 10 percent of the total ETF market. Exchange-traded funds are entering maturity and fund companies are considering new concepts to get investors excited again.
Full article by Ann C. Logue here: http://bit.ly/Hyti0C
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Ann C. Logue is the author of four books on investing in Wiley’s…For Dummies series, including Emerging Markets for Dummies (Wiley 2011).
