As market volatility emerged this year, one ETF has picked up a whopping $9.6 billion, increasing its assets by 28%.
The 20 biggest exchange-traded funds together hold $1.33 trillion in assets: 60% of a total category of $2.3 trillion.
The grandaddy of all funds, SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust SPY, +0.35% , is down $20.6 billion in the year to date, while the second-biggest, iShares Core S&P 500 ETF IVV, +0.32%, increased its size only about 3.9%. Invesco’s popular tech giant, the QQQ Trust QQQ, +0.42% , which is the fifth-biggest fund, has also lost money this year.Meanwhile, some of the smaller of the top 20 are seeing outsize interest relative to their stature.
Here’s a reminder on why all the funds profiled here are sponsored by ishares, Vanguard, or SPDR, the trade name for State Street Global Advisors:None of the other top 20 funds has seen anything like that kind of move, according to Jefferies’ calculations, but Vanguard’s Dividend Appreciation ETF VIG, +0.64% has gained $2.1 billion assets or 5.5%, and its High Dividend Yield fund VYM, +0.20% has gained $1.1 billion, 4.3% of its size.
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