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Worried About ETFs Exacerbating A Market Downturn? Don’t. Here’s Why.
FYI: Over the course of the long bull market, people have fretted that exchange-traded funds would exacerbate any market decline. The hypothesis: ETFs are so liquid that when investors dump them in a selloff, the securities within them would fall even further.