Global X’s AUM has grown to over $11 billion following favourable market growth and record inflows into exchange-traded funds (ETF).
Global X senior product and investment strategist Marc Jocum said Global X was on track for a record-breaking year for 2025–26 with favourable tailwinds likely to drive exponential growth for the ETF industry more broadly.
“We are on pace for our best year ever, which was last set during COVID in 2020 when we had $1.3 billion in total flows,” Jocum said.
“While it took us 19 weeks to grow from $9 billion to $10 billion, it’s only taken us nine weeks to get from $10 billion to $11 billion.”
Jocum said while it has set a high growth target of reaching $20 billion in AUM by 2027, the ETF provider is confident it is achievable.
Global X also announced plans to launch a new ETF product next week, a low-cost ASX 300 ETF which is designed to be a core portfolio holding for investors.
Global X ETFs Australia chief executive Alex Zaika said while the ETF provider is still seeing significant investment money flowing into global equity and US equity ETFs, Australians still have a bias to investing in Australian assets.
“Low-cost broad-based Australian equity ETFs have been the most popular category, seeing $3.9 billion in net flows this year, bringing their total assets to over $43 billion and accounting for around 16 per cent of the ETF market,” Zaika said.
“We plan to bring out more products for investors. We’ve got strong ambitions to be a premier ETF manager within the industry and we want to be more relevant in more client portfolios,” he said.
Jocum said while Global X ETFs has traditionally tried to offer more thematic-type ETFs or those focused on commodities, the ETF provider wants to develop products that attract larger allocations in portfolios.
“Traditionally, global X only occupied the satellite of the client’s portfolio, which meant they generally allocated 10 to 20 per cent of their portfolio to us.”
Zakia said Global X plans to double down on what they’re known for, thematic and innovative ETFs backed by research, while expanding into lower-cost core exposures to provide Australian investors with more choice.
“The local sharemarket has long been viewed as a potential safe haven by investors, bolstered by Australia’s relative stability in contrast to unpredictable policy swings in US government,” Zakia said.
“However, for portfolios to be balanced and well-diversified, they should have a good representation of overseas and Australian shares. Our current product line-up features a range of ETFs targeting international markets, but we also understand the importance of meeting investor demand for more domestic equity ETFs.”
