Broadridge Financial Solutions has today published its 2020 ETF Outlook, a study into the behaviour of financial advisors around exchange-traded fund investing. While largely focused on the US market, it highlights the following interesting developments as universally interesting.

• Younger advisors tend to prefer low-cost ETFs to actively managed mutual funds.

• The use of ETFs is not evenly distributed across financial advisors; there are notable differences in adoption by channel.

• Europe is the region of most interest for foreign market ETFs.

• ETFs currently make up 27 percent of actively managed mutual funds in adviser asset allocation and are set to surpass actively managed mutual funds (29 percent) in the next few years.

• Over 35 percent of advisors use ETFs as a core part of the portfolio.

• More than a third of advisors do not have strong confidence in their knowledge level of ETFs.

• As ETFs become the primary choice for advisors, asset managers may be challenged to reconfigure fund line-ups and product development. Meanwhile, distribution heads will need to think through how to support sales and marketing.

How do I enable cookies in my browser?

Internet Explorer
1. Click the Tools button (or press ALT and T on the keyboard), and then click Internet Options.
2. Click the Privacy tab
3. Move the slider away from 'Block all cookies' to a setting you're comfortable with.

Firefox
1. At the top of the Firefox window, click on the Tools menu and select Options...
2. Select the Privacy panel.
3. Set Firefox will: to Use custom settings for history.
4. Make sure Accept cookies from sites is selected.

Safari Browser
1. Click Safari icon in Menu Bar
2. Click Preferences (gear icon)
3. Click Security icon
4. Accept cookies: select Radio button "only from sites I visit"

Chrome
1. Click the menu icon to the right of the address bar (looks like 3 lines)
2. Click Settings
3. Click the "Show advanced settings" tab at the bottom
4. Click the "Content settings..." button in the Privacy section
5. At the top under Cookies make sure it is set to "Allow local data to be set (recommended)"

Opera
1. Click the red O button in the upper left hand corner
2. Select Settings -> Preferences
3. Select the Advanced Tab
4. Select Cookies in the list on the left side
5. Set it to "Accept cookies" or "Accept cookies only from the sites I visit"
6. Click OK

Broadridge Financial Solutions has today published its 2020 ETF Outlook, a study into the behaviour of financial advisors around exchange-traded fund investing. While largely focused on the US market, it highlights the following interesting developments as universally interesting.

• Younger advisors tend to prefer low-cost ETFs to actively managed mutual funds.

• The use of ETFs is not evenly distributed across financial advisors; there are notable differences in adoption by channel.

• Europe is the region of most interest for foreign market ETFs.

• ETFs currently make up 27 percent of actively managed mutual funds in adviser asset allocation and are set to surpass actively managed mutual funds (29 percent) in the next few years.

• Over 35 percent of advisors use ETFs as a core part of the portfolio.

• More than a third of advisors do not have strong confidence in their knowledge level of ETFs.

• As ETFs become the primary choice for advisors, asset managers may be challenged to reconfigure fund line-ups and product development. Meanwhile, distribution heads will need to think through how to support sales and marketing.