WHY ARE THERE SO MANY ETFs?
Two trends have driven growth in the number of ETFs to over 14,000 globally1:
- Investor demand;
- Improvements in technology that have helped make ETFs low cost and easy to trade.
As an investor you may want to invest in different markets, sectors, or asset types. Want an ETF that covers the whole Straits Times Index (STI)? Or perhaps, you want broad market exposures to US tech stocks (e.g., NASDAQ 100) or UK stocks (e.g., FTSE 100). No problem, there’s an ETF just for that.