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Tony Dong, MSc, CETF

FORGOTTEN HISTORY: The best etfs to buy now | History Defined

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The exchange-traded fund (ETF) industry is in full bloom now.

According to ETF Central, a platform that tracks ETF markets and issuer data, there were more than 5,500 U.S.-listed ETFs as of July 23. That's explosive growth compared with January 22, 1993, when the first U.S.-listed ETF, the SPDR S&P 500 Trust (SPY), launched and kicked off the modern exchange-traded-fund era.

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