Investment funds number listed

By: The WFE Research Team Aug 2022

In this article, we provide an overview of the number listed of investment funds on stock exchanges around the world.

The data is taken from the WFE Statistics Portal. The definition of our indicators can be found in the WFE Definitions Manual. For questions or feedback about this article, please contact the WFE Statistics Team on [email protected]

At the end of Q2 2022 the total number of listed investment funds stood at 19,625, which represented a 3.8% decline on Q1 2022 and a more pronounced fall (-7.8%) compared to Q2 2021.

Regionally, the Americas accounted for 16% of the global number of listed investment funds, APAC for 7% and EMEA for the remaining 77%.

Figure 1: Investment funds – number listed between Jan 2020 – Jun 2022

The quarter-on-quarter increase at the end of Q1 2022 was driven by the Americas region which went up 2.4%, while APAC and EMEA regions decreased 28.4% and 1.9%, respectively.

Year-on-year, we notice the same trend, with the Americas growing 14.2%, while APAC and EMEA regions falling 37.5% and 7.6%, respectively.

The exchanges that added to their number of listed investment funds the most year-on-year are: Shanghai Stock Exchange (27.2%), Bulgarian Stock Exchange (25%), Warsaw Stock Exchange (24.2%) and Bolsa de Comercio de Santiago (21%).

The regional number of listed investment funds is illustrated in Figures 2-4.

Figure 2: Investment funds – number listed between Jan 2020 – Jun 2022 in the Americas region

Figure 3: Investment funds – number listed between Jan 2020 – Jun 2022 in the APAC region

Figure 4: Investment funds – number listed between Jan 2020 – Jun 2022 in the EMEA region

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