| After July saw more than $53 billion in new assets flow to ETFs, August followed suit with another strong month, with nearly $30 billion of inflows, with equity ETF gathering the lion’s share of new money.
In aggregate, August asset flows were solid, if much smaller than July’s $52 billion intake. So far this year, the U.S. ETF industry has gathered a net of $143.2 billion in fresh assets, in line with last year’s asset growth. When it comes to ETF flows in 2016, it really has been a tale of two trends. For the first half of the year, fixed-income ETFs dominated, with more than 80% of new assets going to that asset class...............................................Full Article: Source
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