Text size In case you were wondering, Vanguard Group is still soaking up investor assets like mad. Bloomberg's Taylor Hall and Charles Stein deliver the superlativedu jour: the Pennsylvania fund giant's $148 billion haul in the first half of this year set an all-time record. This year topped Vanguard's own first-half record of $140 billion, set last year. The rising popularity of low-cost, index-tracking stock funds is the prime growth driver for the $3.5 trillion asset manager. Take a look a a few recent posts that illustrate the long-term flow trends. In 2016, Vanguard's has four of the Top 10 ETF flow recipients: the Vanguard S&P 500 Index Fund (VOO), Vanguard FTSE Developed Markets ETF (VEA), Vanguard REIT Index Fund (VNQ) and Vanguard Total Bond Market Index Fund (BND), according to ETF.com.
Passive investment pioneer, Vanguard FTSE Developed Markets ETF saw net inflows of $ 140bn in 2016 , exceeding the $ 148bn of inflows in four and registering an all-time high.