Stocks Are No Longer the Most Actively Traded Securities in Stock Markets
- Three out of 15 most traded securities are single stocks: CS
- Total assets in passive funds exceed 40 percent of all assets
Risk of a Return to Volatility in 2017
Stock exchanges are increasingly getting out of the stock trading business.
As weird as it may seem, individual shares no longer are the most actively traded securities in the market. That distinction goes to exchange-traded funds, which took in a record $400 billion in the past year to become a $3.8 trillion industry.