Insight Investment Funds Report May 2024—ETF Marketplace Continues to Gain Momentum

As the dust settles after the all-important first quarter of the year, we turn our attention to the conditions underpinning the growth of ETFs across North America. While this trend is certainly not new, sales momentum remains strong, and the ETF product shelf is expanding quickly to cover all bases. Hurdles preventing asset managers to introduce active ETFs in the United States have fallen in recent times, triggering a wave of product development in active ETF strategies south of the border—a trend already in place in Canada for several years.

The May 2024 Insight research feature examines the evolving ETF marketplace across Canada, from pricing to levels of activation to the increasing use of ETFs as building blocks for other types of funds—a dataset we recently implemented in the Simfund Canada platform. The Trendlines article examines the registered asset marketplace, as deposits have been the product of choice over the past two years—and how much activity fund companies can expect to see from registered products over the coming months.