ETF and mutual fund total assets

 presents data on the relative total assets held in mutual funds and exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and their relative rate of growth.

Total assets and asset growth
As of year end 2018, US mutual funds held 17.707 trillion dollars of investor assets compared with US ETF's 3.371 trillion dollars of assets under management. As of year-end 2018, world-wide mutual fund total assets totaled 42 trillion dollars, with world-wide ETF assets totaling 4.7 trillion dollars.

This is a semilog chart of the same data.

Investment company net assets
In the United States, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) regulates investment management companies, which include open-end mutual funds, exchange-traded funds, closed-end funds (CEFs) and unit investment trusts (UITS). The table below provides total annual net assets for each type of investment management company.