ETFs - statistics & facts

What is the largest ETF?

Many ETF providers do not just offer a single, individual ETF, but a range of different funds which track various indexes, and invest in different types of security. For example, Blackrock is the largest ETF issuer in the United States, with 36.4 percent of the market share as of February 2021. However, under the iShares brand, Blackrock managed nearly half of the 15 largest individual ETFs in the U.S. by assets under management. Other leading ETF providers are State Street and Vanguard, while the largest individual ETF is the SPDR S&P 500 ETF, managed by State Street, with assets reaching around 325 billion U.S. dollars as of February 2021.

Size of the ETF industry

The assets under management (AUM) of global ETFs increased from 417 billion U.S. dollars in 2005 to over 7.7 trillion U.S. dollars in 2020. The regional distribution of the AUM of ETFs was heavily skewed towards North America, which accounted for around 5.6 trillion U.S. dollars of the global total. However, the Asia Pacific region had the highest regional growth rate for ETFs at this time, despite accounting for a very small share of the overall global ETF market.

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