![Investors Pouring Into Passive Funds: BlackRock](https://www.benefitscanada.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/7/2010/04/187965_1415.jpg)
An article today on Bloomberg reports that, during the first quarter of 2010, investors put $4.6 billion into stock index funds and just $900 million into active equity strategies according to BlackRock. Quantitative funds had $8.8 billion in outflows. Investors also put an additional $13.6 billion into index bond funds and exchange-traded funds while they pulled $14.4 billion from active bond funds. ETF assets have ballooned by 67 per cent in the year ended February according to data from the Investment Company Institute in Washington.