ETF and ETN are becoming more and more popular products for many investors. Sometimes it is used for investing before "real" stock trading. Both offer many advantages compare to mutual funds. Exchange traded funds or notes you can traded directly on exchange. It means you can buy or sell anytime for market price.ETF are still dominant with assets value $602 bln. ETN now accounts $6 bln but increasing rapidly during last year. We could see almost 200% growth in assets value from $2,1 bln to current $6 bln. ETF market grew by 26%.ETN market is not only Barclays' as it was still one year ago. Swedish Export Credit, Deutsche Bank, Bear Stearns, Morgan Stanley and others now take around 20% of its value.Category allocation for ETF and ETNRelated tickers: (BCS), (EEH), (DB), ...

ETF market is booming. Let's have a look which ETF are currently the biggest in terms of assets value. SPY is still leading and has also biggest nominal increase year on year basis. Among top 10, the highest percentage assets increase has been seen for Emerging market EEM (63%). Followed by Gold GLD 51%.That's where ETF money had flowed in last 12 months. ETF Ticker Assets ($ mil) SPDR Index 500 (SPY) 75,121 iShares MSCI-EAFE (EFA) 47,363 ...