ETFs, indexed products under management to double by 2017

Tiburon Strategic Advisors LLC, Tiburon, Calif., published this finding in a new report, "ETFs and Indexing: Exchange Traded Funds, Index Mutual Funds & Indexed Separate Accounts." The research provides an overview and market forecast of exchange-traded funds, index mutual funds and indexed separate accounts.

Among the report's key findings:

• ETFs and indexing products' net flows will reach $665 billion by 2017, up almost 100% since in 2011.
• Index mutual fund net flows will continue to increase to $120 billion by 2017.
• Indexed separate account assets will reach $7.4 trillion by 2017.
• Indexed separate account flows will slightly increase to over $245 billion by 2017.
• Personalized indexing in ETFs and indexing products will grow to $33 billion by 2017.
• Custom ETF assets are expected to reach $9 billion in 2017.
• Enhanced ETFs will grow to $16 billion by 2017.
• Inverse ETF assets are expected to grow to $7 billion by 2017.
• The number of firms offering exchange traded funds will double to 26 by 2017.
• The number of exchange traded funds will more than double to 2,500 by 2017.
• Exchange traded funds' assets under management will grow to $3.0 trillion by 2017, up almost 200% since 2011.
• Exchange traded fund net flows will surge to $300 billion by 2017.
• Equity ETFs have $30 billion net flows.
• Black Rock, State Street Global Advisors, and The Vanguard Group dominate U.S. equity ETF and indexing product assets under management, with $300-$600 billion each.
• Sector stock ETFs have $28 billion net flows.
• There 51 global and international exchange traded funds, up from 22 in 2001.
• Global and international exchange traded funds have $37 billion assets under management.
• Global and International exchange traded funds have $32 billion net flows
• Emerging market exchange traded funds have $24 billion assets under management, up almost 100% since 2003.
• There are just six fixed income exchange traded funds.
• There is $14 billion in fixed income exchange traded funds today, up from just over $10 billion in the previous year.
• Fixed income exchange traded funds have $48 billion net flows.
• International fixed income exchange traded funds have $9.0 billion assets under management.
• ETFs and indexing product assets under management as a share of total world equity market capitalization will increase to 25% by 2017, up from 7% in 2011.