FYI: Almost $4 billion in block trades of exchange-traded funds were recorded Tuesday, encompassing strategies from sector funds to popular international bets, according to Josh Lukeman, head of ETF market making for the Americas at Credit Suisse Group AG.
The largest trade in the iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF, ticker IEFA, was a $262.6 million block which amounted to almost 48 percent of the average daily turnover in the fund over the past 90 days, according to an analysis of Bloomberg data. The figures are from intraday prints.
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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-06/massive-block-trades-in-international-sector-etfs-hit-the-tape
