In this week’s ETF & Markets video, ETF Expert Todd Sohn discusses the rise, but not “too hot”, data from equity flows, potential opportunities down the cap scale, Fixed Income flows update and a look at where ETFs and Mutual Funds stand in total number of products and assets.

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Definitions:

Actively-managed ETF – An actively managed ETF is an exchange-traded fund with a manager or team making decisions on the underlying investments in the fund.

Standard deviation - Standard deviation is a statistical measure of data spread, indivating how much individual data points dypically deviate from the meand of a dataset.

iShares Russell 2000 ETF - The iShares Russell 2000 ETF (IWM) is an exchange-traded fund that tracks the performance of the Russell 2000 Index, which measures the small-cap sector of the U.S. equity market. IWM is a pssive fund managed by BlackRock’s iShares division.

S&P 500 Index – The S&P 500 is a stock market index tracking the stock performance of 500 leading companies listed on stock exchanges in the U.S.