Value funds draw more investor money

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ETFs remain popular investment vehicles for investors. In the U.S., total net inflows into ETFs amounted to $197 billion (for the year to the end of September). This was about the same as 2018, which saw record inflows. Canadian ETFs attracted net new money of $15.5 billion so far this year (up to the end of August). That was 7% higher than the net inflows in the first eight months of 2018. The bulk of new investor money in the U.S. flowed into fixed income ETFs, which attracted $97 billion compared to the $82 billion that went into stock ETFs. In Canada, the same picture emerged as net new flows into fixed-income ETFs was almost double the flows into stocks funds. Among those equity ETFs, “Value” funds gathered a lot more money than “Growth” ETFs, especially since the beginning of August. A simple way to see this renewed interest in value investing is to compare the flows among three pairs of popular…