InvestmentNews has more coverage of a banner 2012 for ETFs, postulating that political and economic doubts led to record flows for exchange-traded products.

This is based on research from ETFGI LLP, a research firm, which said ETFs had assets of $1.35 trillion in 2012, a 27 percent increase over the previous year. This includes a record $187.2 billion in new assets.

This article doesn't offer a ton of new information, though it does name check BlackRock [profile], State Street [profile] and Vanguard [profile] as leaders in the field.

For more details, check out the original article. 

Edited by: Ben Geier


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