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Impact LevelMedium
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Scope LevelNational
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Last Update2025-11-10
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Event Overview
The ETF market is experiencing significant growth, driven by substantial new investments and a surge in the number of new product launches. This expansion includes a variety of innovative ETFs, reflecting the evolving investment landscape and investor demand for diverse and specialized financial products.
Collect Records
ETF Market Sees Record Growth in First Half of 2025
In the first half of 2025, the ETF market continued to grow rapidly, attracting $540 billion in new investments, which exceeded the total from the first half of 2024. By June, 464 new ETFs were launched, bringing the total number of ETFs in the market to 2,226. The year is on track to set a new annual record with 726 launches, including the first public-private credit ETF, various buffer, covered call, and active ETFs, as well as crypto and money-market ETFs. Asset managers in the US offer both active and passive ETFs, with 2,157 passive ETFs currently available. While active ETFs are gaining popularity, many popular ones follow quantitative or rules-based strategies. Diversified quantitative strategies from firms like Dimensional, Avantis, Vanguard, and Schwab are expanding into low-touch, low-cost active bond ETFs. Traditional active managers such as Capital Group and T. Rowe Price have also found success with ETFs, but rules-based ETFs are expected to continue leading the active ETF market.