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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Juan Blanco, post: 1574053, member: 41665&quot;]I&#039;m still digesting the ICI 2012 Factbook (May 2011 data) you may examine it here:</p><p><a href="http://www.ici.org/pdf/2012_factbook.pdf" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.ici.org/pdf/2012_factbook.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://www.ici.org/pdf/2012_factbook.pdf</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Some interesting factoids: </p><p>1) Retail: 52.3 million US households (44% of all US) owned MFs ; &quot;an estimated 3.5 million U.S. households held ETFs in 2011.&quot; (p.54) </p><p>2) Retail: &quot;Of households that owned mutual funds, an estimated 6 percent also owned ETFs.&quot; (p.54)</p><p>3) Retail: 39% of all US households have an IRA; 10% of households w/IRAs used ETFs and 1-3% of their assets were in &#039;Other Investments&#039; (CIDs, etc and/or alternative asset classes)</p><p>4) Total US ETF Mkt: Commodity ETFs are 25% of all Commodity AND Sector ETFs (by # of fds) but account for 50% of net assets for both groups. (p.52)</p><p>5) Total US ETF Mkt: Commodity ETFs make up ~10% of ALL ETF Assets (Table, p. 146) and 80% of Commodity ETFs tracked the Price of Gold or Silver (so, not &#039;miner stock.&#039;) (p.52)</p><p>6) Retail: &quot;ETF-owning households tended to have higher incomes, greater household financial assets, and were {~20%} more likely to be headed by college-educated individuals.&quot; (p.55)</p><p><br /></p><p>I can&#039;t find the ICI discussion page on Gold, LOL I really don&#039;t think they want to talk about it either. </p><p>However you dice &amp; slice it, probably far less than 0.3% of US Households held a PM ETF (1% of 10% = 0.1%) still quite neglible/insignificant for US retail investors[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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