MarketsThe Big Take
Wall Street Has Surrendered to the $500 Billion ETF Rush
Vanguard leads the way as industry prepares to shatterĀ annual recordĀ withĀ months to go
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U.S. money managers couldnāt stop the march toward exchange-traded funds, so they decided to join it instead. Now itās more like a stampede.
ETFs are on the brink of luring more money in seven months than in any calendar year on record. At $488.5 billion and counting, theyāll likely break the $497 billion full-year record set in 2020 in weeks, possibly days.