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Growth of ETFs can disrupt the mutual funds market, says Steven Hawkins

he impact of artificial intelligence on the investment industry has just begun, says Steven Hawkins

Bharat Bond ETF expected in Dec or Jan; to come in 3- and 10-yr maturities

A Cabinet approval is expected by December 4, after which the ETF could be launched promptly

Investors pour over $1 bn into emerging-market ETFs for a second week

The MSCI EM index has gained as much as 9 per cent since October 1, only to give up some of its gains over the past few sessions

India's passive funds set to beat active peers for second straight year

India's passive funds have delivered an average return of 9.6 per cent so far this year, much higher than active funds' 5.7 per cent

ETFs catch on, assets under management up 9% in Apr-Sep to Rs 1.5 trn

Till September, a total of 71 ETFs were benchmarked to various equity and debt indices, while the number stood at 66 by March this year

How much exposure should you take to gold and mid- and small-cap funds?

Mid- and small-caps have seen a deep correction

Centre plans 3 CPSE ETFs in FY20 to meet Rs 90,000-cr disinvestment target

A PSB ETF, energy PSU ETF, and a metal & commodity PSU ETF being mulled

Offshore India funds, ETFs pump in $6 bn in Jan-Sep

India-focussed offshore funds and ETFs are a subset of the overall foreign portfolio investor (FPI) flows

India-focused offshore funds, ETFs invest $140 mn in August

With this, total inflow has reached to over $5.3 billion in the first eight months of the year

Flows from offshore India funds, ETFs ebb

Inflows of $140 million in August lowest in 2017; China most preferred among Asia-Pacific and emerging markets funds

India-focussed offshore funds, ETFs mop up $2.6 billion in Q1

India-focussed offshore funds and ETFs continued to receive robust flows during the June quarter, with inflows of $2.6 billion, higher than the $2 billion received in the previous quarter. The total assets of the 10 largest India-focussed offshore funds and ETFs grew 7.5 per cent to $27.3 billion. Two Japan-domiciled funds mopped up $1.2 billion of the inflows, the most within the category. In the six months to June, the category received net inflows of $4.6 billion compared with net outflows of $2.3 billion in the same period last year, according to a note put out by fund tracker Morningstar India. India-focussed offshore funds saw higher net inflows than India-focussed offshore ETFs during the quarter. The former got inflows of about $2.1 billion compared with $0.5 billion for the latter. Their combined assets grew 10.2 per cent to $55.2 billion during the June quarter, boosted by robust inflows coupled with a rally in Indian equities. Of this, ETFs form $11.5 billion while the ...

Govt forms Bharat-22 ETF for asset sales; to cover six sectors

The government today said it has set up a new exchange-traded fund (ETF), Bharat-22, comprising 22 scrips including ONGC, IOC, SBI and Axis Bank. This will be the second ETF from the government after it raised over Rs 8,509 crore from three tranches of CPSE ETF. Bharat-22 will have a diversified portfolio of six sectors, including energy, FMCG, finance, basic material and industrial and utilities, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley told reporters here. The 22 scrips include central public sector enterprises (CPSEs), state-owned banks and government's strategic holding in Axis Bank, ITC and L&T held through SUUTI (Specified Undertaking of Unit Trust of India). "While selecting each of these sectors, we have kept in mind sectoral reforms which have had direct impact on the valuation of these shares... We believe that this ETF will be a fairly successful one," Jaitley said. ETF functions like a mutual fund scheme and is bought by investors as units. The oil and gas and coal and min

Investors exit gold ETFs, withdraw Rs 130 crore in 2 months

Gold ETFs have been continuously seeing a withdrawal

ETFs back in demand

With the strong performance by benchmark indices, investors are increasingly opting for ETFs

Equity ETFs asset base jumps three-fold to Rs 43,234 cr

Govt had mobilised Rs 8,500 cr through CPSE ETF in FY17

Equity ETFs asset base jumps 3-fold to Rs 43,234 cr

Currently, there are 47 equity-based ETFs listed on exchanges

ETFs find traction, investors from 588 cities attracted to it

Investments in ETFs were seen from 464 cities across the country during 2007-08

Investors are charging into emerging market ETFs

About $7 billion has flowed into EM funds in 2017

ETFs globally gather record cash of $375 billion in 2016 - BlackRock

ETFs are a basket of stocks or other assets traded by individual investors and institutions.

Benefit from low expense ratios of ETFs

Expense ratios of ETFs have declined primarily due to fund houses' desire to attract institutional money, chiefly from the EPFO