making up some of the ETF's biggest weightings, BOTZ gives investors a way to buy into a theme they know is taking hold, but may not feel all too familiar, Jacobs said. That fund is up more than 3% year to date and had more than $1.5 billion in net assets as of Friday.
"I think this is intuitive with investors. They see that automation is getting more powerful, that companies are investing in robotics, they're investing in bringing in AI systems, but they don't really know where to start. Who are the big robotics companies?" he said. "They're not ... common knowledge to U.S. investors. The ETF, I think, is a perfect example of giving people that exposure to the companies best positioned in the space.
But where Global X is seeing inflows into new, up-and-coming funds, iShares and other large issuers are seeing strength in longer-lived plays. "We do believe rates are staying lower," Armando Senra, head of iShares Americas at BlackRock, said in the same "ETF Edge" interview. "That's why we're also recommending emerging market debt [and]
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