ETF investors jumped into a host of lossmaking trades in 2023

January 8, 2024--The unusual behaviour hit returns but also challenges theory that buy-high-sell-low mentality tends to prevail
Exchange traded fund investors pumped money into a host of lossmaking trades last year while pulling money out of a range of better-performing assets.

The unusual move, challenge the received wisdom that investors all too often jump on passing bandwagons and buy whatever is rising in value, typically at the wrong point in the cycle.

In the short term, at least, though, the divergences between performance and flows will have hit ETF investors in the pocket.

Goods trade growth set to moderate as barometer index dips

November 28, 2025-Goods trade growth appears to have slowed in the second half of 2025 following a surge in the first half driven by frontloading of imports ahead of expected tariff hikes and by rising demand for AI-related products, according to the latest WTO Goods Trade Barometer.