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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

Equity ETF assets soar fourfold

Passive fund assets stood at Rs 19,159 crore in June this year compared with Rs 4,528 crore two years ago

Assets of Nifty 50-based ETFs rise six-fold in a year

Total AUM of ETFs benchmarked to Nifty indices now account for 85% of total market share of equity ETFs

Smart-index ETFs good for passive investors

While the initial 'smart' index is based on quantitative models, the fund manager has no role to play after that. Being ETFs, they are cheaper as well