S&P Global Launches ETF Intelligence to Decode Flows, Themes and Market Risk

S&P Global Market Intelligence launched the ETF Intelligence, a new analytics platform designed to help investors, issuers and institutional market participants better analyze the rapidly expanding global ETF market. The service combines proprietary datasets with ETF-specific analytics to provide deeper insights into portfolio exposures, fund flows, liquidity, valuation, volatility and broader market trends, reflecting growing demand for more sophisticated ETF research tools as the industry continues to evolve.

The launch comes as innovation accelerates across the ETF market. According to analysis from S&P Global Market Intelligence, U.S. options-based ETF assets climbed from less than $5 billion in 2019 to $245 billion in 2025, highlighting the rapid growth of increasingly complex ETF strategies. The company said ETF Intelligence is designed to provide greater transparency into underlying exposures and risk while supporting research, portfolio construction and product development.

“As the ecosystem scales in both size and complexity, the ability to understand underlying exposures, liquidity and risk with greater precision is paramount,” said Paul Wilson, head of Data, Pricing, Valuations & Analytics at S&P Global Market Intelligence. He added that the platform aims to help clients better understand the forces shaping ETFs and support more informed investment decisions.

Key features of ETF Intelligence include:

• Coverage of more than 15,000 ETFs across major global markets.
• More than 150 daily metrics spanning fund flows, performance, liquidity, volatility, benchmark comparisons and portfolio composition analytics.
• Integration of ETF analytics with proprietary S&P Global datasets to generate multi-dimensional insights and support custom signal development across asset classes.
• Over a decade of historical data combined with daily refreshed analytics for long-term trend analysis and real-time decision-making.
• Tools for analyzing sector performance, investment themes, fund flows, growth patterns and broader market dynamics.
• Designed for index providers, ETF issuers, hedge funds, asset managers, investment banks, quantitative traders and research professionals.
• Part of S&P Global Market Intelligence’s broader cross-platform, multi-asset-class data and managed services portfolio aimed at streamlining institutional investment workflows.

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